What's New

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  Seattle Opera Receives a $750,000 Technology Boost

  Seattle Opera announced today that the company will receive a $750,000 grant from the Wallace Foundation. The grant, which will be dispersed over a four-year period, will be used to increase accessibility to opera through new technologies.
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  Young Artists Qualify for Round Two of Met National Auditions

  Young Artists Elizabeth Pojanowski, Michelle Trovato, and Eugene Chan, along with alumnus Noah Baetge have qualified for the second round of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
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  Halloween Special

  Seattle Opera is offering treats, not tricks, this Halloween. For the Friday, October 31, performance of Richard Strauss’s Elektra, operagoers who attend in costume will receive one free ticket with the purchase of one full-priced ticket.
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  New Music Director and Additional Performances for Young Artists

  Seattle Opera’s 2008/09 Young Artists Program kicked off this month, welcoming ten up-and-coming opera singers, a new Music Director, and the announcement of Seattle performance dates.
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  Young Artists Sing National Anthem

  Seattle sports fans received an operatic welcome to Qwest and Safeco Fields, when two former Seattle Opera Young Artists, Marcus Shelton and Noah Baetge, sang the Star-Spangled Banner at recent baseball and football games.
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  Young Artists Inspiring Impressionism

  Former Young Artists, Holly Boaz and Marcus Shelton accompanied by David McDade, performed Impressionist pieces and operatic arias to coincide with SAM’s Inspiring Impressionism exhibit.
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  Seattle Opera Announces
  2008/09 Young Artists

  Seattle Opera announced the ten young artists selected to participate in its 2008/09 Young Artists Program.