Hear the great Canadian tenor sing one of his most gorgeous roles.
The stunning debut of one of our favorite sopranos!
The most familiar music from Wagner’s RING!
Listen to an amazing feat of bel canto virtuosity from one of our favorite tenors.
Listen to Asher Fisch conduct overwhelming music from the first show in McCaw Hall!
Explore the 2007/08 Iphigenia in Tauris Program!
Explore the 1985/86 Manon Program!
A stunning production of Puccini’s grandest opera with an all-star cast.
Explore the 2012/13 Turandot Program!
Hear Oreste’s mad scene from Gluck masterpiece, in a co-production created with the Met.
Explore the 1985/86 Die Walküre Program!
Images highlighting 1991’s Anna Bolena
Explore the 2005 Ring Program!
Featuring the Seattle Opera debuts of Stephen Wadsworth and Peter Kazaras!
The orchestra mourns the death of a fallen hero.
Polish barihunk Mariusz Kwiecien triumphed as Mozart’s seductive bad boy.
Watch scenes from this beautiful opera by Mexican composer Daniel Catán!
Explore the 2003/04 Girl of the West Program!
Explore the 2013 Ring Program!
Explore the 1989/90 Master-Singers of Nuremberg Program!
Superstar tenor required! Ben Heppner was the first Andrea Chénier at Seattle Opera since Franco Corelli in 1968.
The unforgettable opera that opened McCaw Hall!
Our powerful first production of this Gluck masterwork.
The award-winning performance in the first opera in the renovated McCaw Hall.
Speight gets the swan just the way he likes it!
Explore the 1990/91 Anna Bolena Program!
The Seattle debut of Carol Vaness, a favorite soprano of the Seattle audience.
Hear the winners of our International Wagner Competitions!
Explore the 2006/07 Don Giovanni Program!
Explore the 1986 Ring Program!
Wagner News: “An opera experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
For Seattle Opera’s only production of this masterpiece, we projected titles above the stage for the first time.
Explore the 2006/07 Der Rosenkavalier Program!
Explore the 2000/01 Billy Budd Program!
Renée Fleming’s debut as Dvořák’s little mermaid.
Hear the German soprano who triumphed at Seattle Opera recently in Fidelio.
Explore the 1989/90 Dialogues of the Carmelites Program!
Our only production of the Poulenc masterpiece.
The moment when the difference between Speight Jenkins and Glynn Ross became apparent!
A sumptuous production of Richard Strauss’s most popular opera.
Explore the 2009/10 Amelia Program!
Explore the 1993/94 Norma Program!
Our first RING in McCaw Hall–and Greer Grimsley’s first Wotan.
None who were there will ever forget Jane Eaglen’s stunning Seattle Opera debut!
Explore the 1987/88 Orpheus and Eurydice Program!
Seattle Opera’s only production to date of Wagner’s sunny comedy.
Explore the 1984/85 Tannhäuser Program!
This fascinating double-bill won its director Artist of the Year.
Speight remembers how Nuremberg came to Seattle.
Leonie Rysanek’s unforgettable Seattle appearance!
Explore the 1990/91 Rusalka Program!
Renee Fleming made her Seattle Opera debut in one of her greatest roles.
Greer Grimsley’s first Wagner opera—complete with giant animatronic swan!
A rootin’, tootin’ barn-burner of a western with a strong Puccini cast.
The final outing of Ring 2 was a great success, artistically—and financially!
Explore the 1998/99 Tristan and Isolde Program!
Hear the luscious voice of a great mezzo singing the role she created.
Listen to the voice of Seattle’s reigning king of the gods.
Explore this beloved cast, full of beautiful voices and frequent Seattle Opera artists.
Dale Chihuly’s designs matched Debussy’s evocative, translucent music perfectly.
Explore the 1987 Ring Program!
Seattle Opera’s first home-grown production of the greatest American opera.
Explore the 1995 Ring Program!
The great Viennese soprano’s only Seattle appearance!
Watch clips from Seattle Opera’s monumental production from the Goodwill Games!
Explore the 1990/91Don Giovanni Program!
Our unforgettable War and Peace celebrated the end of the Cold War.
Speight’s dreams come true with a match made in operatic heaven.
A fantastic young American soprano created the role of the heroine’s namesake in Amelia.
Speight: “A remarkably easy RING!”
Explore the 1990/91 War and Peace Program!
Speight remembers when the “Shiite Wagnerites” demanded his head.
Explore the 2007/08 I Puritani Program!
Explore the 2011/12 Porgy and Bess Program!
Explore the 1995/96 Andrea Chenier Program!
Explore the 2008/09 Bluebeard’s Castle and Erwartung Program!
Speight finds a new Siegfried–with two days notice!
Don Giovanni as Seattle had never seen it before!
Watch clips from our imaginative second production of Wagner’s Ring.
Speight remembers consecrating McCaw Hall with Wagner’s most Wagnerian opera.
Explore the 2003/04 Parsifal Program!
Hear the gorgeous trio from “Così fan tutte” sung by three of our favorite singers.
Seattle Opera’s beautiful world premiere from 2010.
Explore the 1997/98 Der Rosenkavalier Program!
Explore the 2010/11 Don Quichotte Program!
Explore the 1992/93 Pelléas et Mélisande Program!
Explore the 1984/85 Jenufa Program!
Hear two of the great Wagner voices of our time, at the peak of their powers.
The first complete presentation of the imaginative Rochaix/Israel Ring 2.
Explore the 1994/95 Lohengrin Program!
