He had never produced a performance when he was hired as the company’s general director in 1983. But over 31 years (and lots ...

Seattle Opera named composer Laura Kaminsky and librettist Deborah Brevoort as Creative Directors of the Jane Lang Davis ...

An appreciation of former Seattle Opera general director Speight Jenkins, who brought the opera to international notice and ...

Remembering Speight Jenkins, former Seattle Opera General Director, whose legacy transformed the opera community.

The opera champion, famous for his passion, generosity and hands-on attitude, left an indelible mark on Seattle’s classical ...

Taking the stage, soprano Vuvu Mpofu, playing Violetta, and Duke Kim, playing Alfredo Germont in the opera La Traviata. The two play lead roles in Giuseppe Verdi’s 1853 opera with a timeless theme of ...

The Seattle Opera announced Thursday that it has hired James Robinson, the long-time artistic director of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, as its new general and artistic director. Robinson begins in his ...

General Director Christina Scheppelmann announced today Seattle Opera’s Resident Artist positions, new paid roles for emerging artists. The Resident Artist role gives opera singers salaried, ...

A piece of the local art community is going away. It’s a small warehouse-type building next to the PACCAR Plant in Renton. The sign on the front door says “Seattle Opera Scenic Studios.” And inside, ...

Ask the average Seattleite what they think of when they hear the word pagliacci and they’re almost guaranteed to answer “pizza”—or, maybe, “class action lawsuit.” One hundred years ago, though, the ...

every eight or 10 years, and understandably—it’s a marketing slam dunk, and everyone goes to hear the coloratura sing the Queen of the Night’s badass aria, “Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen” ...

The Seattle Opera had the perfect response to Timothée Chalamet’s recent remarks about ballet and opera. In a recent conversation with Matthew McConaughey, Chalamet said that “no one cares” about the ...