Explore the 1973/74 Siegfried Program!
The first time the world ended at Seattle Opera!
Explore the 1974/75 Ring Program!
Speight remembers how supertitles came to Seattle Opera.
Explore the 2013 Ring Program!
This preview of our third RING production featured the first two operas in the cycle, presented in full one year later.
Hear the SIEGFRIED Riddle Scene–in English!
Listen to excerpts from Seattle Opera’s English-language RINGS!
The “Green” Ring looked better than ever this summer.
Edward Sooter made a great addition to our Ring cast at its fifth consecutive summer.
Hear Seattle’s first malevolent Lord of the Ring.
Explore the 1979 Ring Program!
The award-winning performance in the first opera in the renovated McCaw Hall.
The final outing of Ring 2 was a great success, artistically—and financially!
Explore the 2004/05 Lohengrin Program!
From the 2009 Ring cycle performances
A new Siegfried added to the excitement of Seattle Opera’s most ambitious summer program yet.
Part one of our series previewing 2009 RING Cycle focused on the artists involved and their rehearsal process.
Hear the bass who was with us from before the beginning.
The Making of the Ring
How the first go-around of “Ring 2” had some strengths and some weaknesses.
A serenade gone hilariously wrong!
Listen to the voice of Seattle’s reigning king of the gods.
Speight’s story of saving his first-ever RING from disaster.
Hear the bass-baritone who often sang Wotan in Seattle in the ’80s.
The first full performance of Seattle Opera’s beloved “Green” Ring.
A new Brünnhilde headlined our second complete cycle.
Speight learns to listen to young people at final dress rehearsals.
Greer Grimsley’s first Wagner opera—complete with giant animatronic swan!
Our first RING in McCaw Hall–and Greer Grimsley’s first Wotan.
Speight remembers how Nuremberg came to Seattle.
Explore the 1982 Ring Program!
Johanna Meier and Alberto Remedios joined our cast this summer.
Explore the 1978 Ring Program!
The great Viennese soprano’s only Seattle appearance!
By 1980, Seattle’s Ring was a well-known west coast cultural phenomenon.
The first complete presentation of the imaginative Rochaix/Israel Ring 2.
The moment when the difference between Speight Jenkins and Glynn Ross became apparent!
Explore the 1976 Ring Program!
Hear the mezzo who was Seattle’s original Queen of the Gods.
Explore the 1985/86 Die Walküre Program!
Wagner News: “An opera experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
Wagner’s rollicking sea yarn came to Seattle with a famous cast.
Hear Asher Fisch conduct the TRISTAN Prelude!
Explore the 1971/72 Flying Dutchman Program!
Wagner’s mighty epic performed for–and by!–kids all over Washington State.
Explore the 1984 Ring Program!
The final cycle produced by Glynn Ross.
From the book, “Classical Music in America”
Speight remembers consecrating McCaw Hall with Wagner’s most Wagnerian opera.
Explore the 1987 Ring Program!
Our first production of Wagner’s great song of love and death.
Speight finds a new Siegfried–with two days notice!
One of our favorite baritones sings Alberich’s curse.
Explore the 2005 Ring Program!
Hear the voice of Seattle Opera’s founding General Director!
Perhaps the wildest animal ever to appear on our stage…
From 2009 Ring cycle performances.
Explore the 2010/11 Tristan and Isolde Program!
Explore the 1977 Ring Program.
Simon Estes was a strong Hagen, and Ute Vinzing joined our Ring for the first time as Brünnhilde.
Speight finds a new Siegfried–after the final dress rehearsal!
Explore the 2003/04 Parsifal Program!
Explore the 1986 Ring Program!
Explore the 1980 Ring Program!
Explore the 1989/90 Master-Singers of Nuremberg Program!
Listen to Asher Fisch conduct overwhelming music from the first show in McCaw Hall!
The orchestra mourns the death of a fallen hero.
Explore the 1991 Ring Program!
Speight gets the swan just the way he likes it!
For Seattle Opera’s only production of this masterpiece, we projected titles above the stage for the first time.
The first Ring performed complete within a week in the U.S. in a generation.
The first Wagner production at Seattle Opera!
Watch clips from our imaginative second production of Wagner’s Ring.
Speight remembers how the “Green” RING began its life.
Listen to a clip from Perry Lorenzo’s famous RING lectures!
Explore the 1984/85 Tannhäuser Program!
Hear the voice of Seattle’s original Ur-Mutter.
Explore the 2007/08 Flying Dutchman Program!
Revival of the 1994 production directed by Stephen Wadsworth.
Watch a Video Excerpt
Leonie Rysanek’s unforgettable Seattle appearance!
A complete list of Wagner performances in Seattle.
Explore the 1974/75 Gotterdammerung Program!
The making of the Ring
Hear two of the great Wagner voices of our time, at the peak of their powers.
Explore the 2009 Ring Program!
Explore the 1988/89 Flying Dutchman Program!
Explore the 1994/95 Lohengrin Program!
Explore the program for our Summer 1981 Wagner festival, featuring the Ring and Tristan and Isolde.
The once-controversial “Ring 2” finally earns complete acceptance.
Watch Video: Music with Maestro Asher Fisch
Excerpt from The Journal of the Wagner Society of Northern California
Speight: “A remarkably easy RING!”
Speight remembers when the “Shiite Wagnerites” demanded his head.
The unforgettable opera that opened McCaw Hall!
Explore the 2000/01 Das Rheingold, Die Walküre Program!
The most familiar music from Wagner’s RING!
Explore the 2001 Ring Program!
Hear the voice of Seattle Opera’s resident tenor in the ’70s!
R. M. Campbell’s obituary recaps the remarkable career of Glynn Ross.
Hear the winners of our International Wagner Competitions!
From the 2009 Ring
Hear the great Canadian tenor sing one of his most gorgeous roles.
“Ride of the Valkyries” — sung in English!
Glynn Ross begins introducing his favorite opera tetralogy to Seattle.
Seattle Opera’s only production to date of Wagner’s sunny comedy.
Speight’s dreams come true with a match made in operatic heaven.
Hear the voice of Noel Tyl, one of our first Wotans.
A cast substitution with unexpected results.
Explore the 1972/73 Die Walküre Program!
Three-minute complilation of footage from the final dress rehearsal of 2009’s DAS RHEINGOLD.
Explore the 1983 Ring Program!
Explore the 1980/81 Tristan and Isolde Program!
Duesing implores the Evening Star to bear his love to the lady of his heart.
Pete Olds’ quick-thinking saves the day.
A second Ring opera is added to Seattle’s repertory.
Hear Archie Drake sing Gunther–in English!
“Gloomy captain, go on land; seek a faithful woman’s hand! Another seven years rush by; another woman soon must die.”
Watch Director’s Talk Video with Peter Kazaras
RING 2 achieved widespread acceptance this summer, and the number of performances increased to three.
The last summer for Ring 1!
A 1982 article about Glynn Ross and Seattle’s Ring.
Hear the voice of Seattle Opera’s first Music and Education Director!
Explore the 1998/99 Tristan and Isolde Program!
It’s love at first sight (and hearing!) when Seattle Opera meets Richard Wagner.
Speight remembers his first great success with the RING.
Explore the 1995 Ring Program!
A game of musical chairs ensued when several Ring singers switched parts.
