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Seattle Opera is an American opera company based in Seattle, Washington. The company's season runs from August through late May, comprising five or six operas of eight to ten performances each, often featuring double casts in major roles to allow for successive evening presentations.
The Seattle Opera company was founded in 1963 and held its first season in the Opera House in 1964. Pacific Northwest Ballet was founded in 1972 and held its first season in the Opera House in 1973. Seattle Symphony held its final concert in the Opera House on June 30, 1998, and moved to the newly completed Benaroya Hall soon after. [3]
A Thousand Splendid Suns is an opera with music by American composer Sheila Silver and an English-language libretto by Stephen Kitsakos, based on the popular novel by Khaled Hosseini. It was commissioned by Seattle Opera, where it premiered February 25, 2023. [1]
Scene 1: America, the Mid-1960s. Outside a suburban tract house a nine-year-old girl named Amelia sings a hymn to the stars as inside her mother folds laundry. Her father, a navy pilot named Dodge, emerges from the house in dress whites and indicates to her that it is time for bed.
The Who's rock opera Tommy was first produced as a full stage production in 1971 by the Seattle Opera, and included Bette Midler in the roles of the Acid Queen and Mrs. Walker. Soundgarden's Fopp EP was recorded at the Moore Theatre in 1988. Alice in Chains' Live Facelift home video release was filmed at the Moore Theatre in 1990.
Even the paint was carefully restored to its original luster. The renovation made it suitable again for live performances and filled Seattle's need for a touring Broadway musical venue. Renovation work was completed without federal, state, or local funds. [11] June 16, 1980, marked the theater's rebirth and a new chapter in Seattle's arts ...
The Seattle Opera and Pacific Northwest Ballet, which perform at McCaw Hall (which opened 2003 on the site of the former Seattle Opera House at Seattle Center), are comparably distinguished, with the Opera being particularly known for its performances of the works of Richard Wagner and the PNB School (founded in 1974) ranking as one of the top ...
In March 2019, Seattle Opera announced the appointment of Scheppelmann as its next general director, the first woman to be named to the post, effective with the 2019-2020 season. [3] Her tenure at Seattle Opera overlapped with the COVID-19 pandemic, and her work at Seattle Opera included presentation of a filmed virtual season of productions. [4]