Intérprete: Weston Hurt

Jonathan Miller’s game-changing mafioso setting of Rigoletto returns to the Coliseum, vividly conducted by Richard Farnes. 

Seattle Opera's visually poetic and refined Madama Butterfly peeks back at Puccini's own first version of the opera, which was arguably more openly critical of the devastation wrought by imperialism. 

Two fascinating casts make Peter Konwitschny's stripped-down Traviata a must-see artistic event in Seattle.