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SeattleSalome

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Strauss R.: Salomé
Benjamin Manis; Bruno Ravella; Seattle Opera; Leslie Travers; Malcolm Rippeth; Ashlee Naegle

SeattleEl último sueño de Frida y Diego

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Frank: El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego)
Carolyn Kuan; Seattle Opera; Daniela Mack; Alfredo Daza; Mei Gui Zhang; Jake Ingbar

SeattleLakmé in ConcertVersion de concert

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Delibes: Lakmé
Daniela Candillari; Seattle Opera; Ashlee Naegle; Aigul Khismatullina; David Portillo; Nicholas Newton

SeattleLa bohème

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Puccini: La bohème
Roberto Kalb; James Robinson; Seattle Opera; Allen Moyer; Duane Schuler; Ashlee Naegle; Long Long
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Sasha Cooke brings sharp intelligence to Seattle Opera’s Carmen

Sasha Cooke (Carmen) and Christian Pursell (Escamillo) © Sunny Martini
Sasha Cooke’s thoughtful role debut anchors Paul Curran’s visually and musically alert but dramatically uneven production.

A rite of spring turned inward: Strauss’ Daphne at Seattle Opera

Heidi Stober © Sunny Martini

Presented without staging, Seattle Opera’s concert Daphne places Strauss’ extreme vocal demands and saturated orchestral writing in sharp relief, offering a high-risk encounter with a rarely heard late opera.

Mozart meets Vaudeville in Seattle's silent movie Magic Flute

Brandie Sutton (Pamina) and Rodion Pogossov (Papageno) © Sunny Martini
Eye-popping, hand-drawn animation melds with Mozart's fantastical world and the silent film era to create a colorful and energetic new-to-Seattle production.  

African American spirituals ring out in world premiere of Jubilee

Lisa Arrindell (Ella Sheppard) © Sunny Martini
A world premiere opera about the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the intrepid troupe of African American singers who changed music history. 

Alcina in Seattle: captivating, flirtatious, sometimes weird

Vanessa Goikoetxea (Alcina) © Sunny Martini
Thoughtful cuts, an extremely skillful orchestra and active, inventive staging made this sexy dark comedy engrossing and highly watchable. 

Frederick Ballentine’s Loge shines in Das Rheingold

Sarah Larsen (Flosshilde), Jacqueline Piccolino (Woglinde), Shelly Traverse (Wellgunde) © Philip Newton
Despite some confused visual elements, an excellent musical performance makes Seattle Opera's production well worth watching.
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Les Variations de Clara : les femmes à la tête des opéras

Clara Leonardi © DR / Bachtrack
Pourquoi trouve-t-on si peu de femmes à la tête des opéras du monde ? Quels obstacles rencontrent-elles ? Notre chroniqueuse Clara Leonardi dresse un état des lieux et apporte des éléments de réponse.

Opera on the West Coast: the state of the art

A scene from James Gray's staging of "The Marriage of Figaro" - LA Opera © Vincent Pontet/Theatre des Champs-Elysees
The opera General Directors of Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego tell us about their audiences, their productions, painting a picture of opera on the West Coast that is both different and in rude health.