This February, Seattle Opera will present the trailblazing opera Fellow Travelers, a gay love story set during the Lavender ...

Seattle Opera will close its 2024/25 season with Giacomo Puccini’s shocking melodrama Tosca, the fiery tale of an opera diva who risks everything to save her beloved from the grasp of a sadistic and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seattle Opera's "Fellow Travelers," Seattle Symphony's "Iris Unveiled" and Bach in fresh contexts are among highlights of the ...

Seattle Opera is making history staging its first opera ever composed by an African-American. Now X-The Life and Times of Malcom X is changing the face of this European art form. When the curtain ...

In a vast studio at the Seattle Opera Center on a recent Monday evening, a glorious noise was heard. While rehearsing the end of Act I of the beloved Puccini opera “Tosca,” the voices of 46 Seattle ...

James Robinson is set to become the fifth person to lead Seattle Opera in its 61-year history. Starting Sept. 4, Robinson will take over as general and artistic director, succeeding Christina ...

As the Taliban once again assert control of Afghanistan and push women further out of public view, a female Afghan filmmaker is working thousands of miles away to help bring to life a wildly popular ...

When Asa Irwin was growing up in Seattle, she knew talented black singers who performed in churches and sang in competitions. But “you never actually saw people of color performing in the major venues ...

Few arts groups are able to announce whopping gifts totaling $21.5 million at their annual meeting — as Seattle Opera did Tuesday at McCaw Hall. Not surprisingly, the company is expected to balance ...

SEATTLE — As Washington lifts its mask mandate for many indoor spaces starting March 12, some performing arts venues in Seattle are saying, not so fast. The Seattle Opera will continue enforcing ...