About Us

Board of Trustees

Chairmen Emeriti
Lawrence W. Clarkson
William P. Gerberding
Chairman
John F. Nesholm
President
Steven C. Phelps
Treasurer
Jeffrey Hanna
Secretary
Rosemarie Anderson
Vice-Presidents
  • Thomas H. Allen
  • Steven A. Clifford
  • Tracy Edgers
  • James R. Faulstich
  • Diana Gale
  • Max E. Gellert
  • Jerry Landeen
  • James David Raisbeck
  • Dana A. Rasmussen
  • James Uhlir
Trustees
  • Willie C. Aikens
  • Virginia Anderson
  • Kim A. Anderson
  • Cynthia Bayley
  • Katarina Bonde
  • Patricia L. Bostrom
  • Ron Cathcart
  • Gregory Chan, M.D.
  • Janice C. Condit
  • Charles B. Cossé
  • James D. Cullen
  • Susan Detweiler, M.D.
  • Sandra B. Dunn
  • Karl J. Ege
  • Evette Glauber
  • Felicia C. Guity
  • Jim L. Hodge
  • Gary Houlahan
  • Andrea K. Kaempf
  • Janet Wright Ketcham
  • Thomas A. Lemly
  • Bruce R. McCaw
  • JJ McKay
  • Edward L. Miles
  • Louise Miller
  • Vicky Oxley
  • Rosemary W. Peterson
  • Eulalie Schneider
  • Walter E. Skowronski
  • A. McNair Smith, M.D.
  • Stephen A. Sprenger
  • Dawson Taylor
  • Russell F. Tousley
  • Jim Uhlir
  • Muriel Van Housen
  • Joan S. Watjen
  • Judith A. Whetzel
  • Katheen P. Wilcox
  • Scott Wyatt
Representatives to the Board
  • Sandra Boyd - Seattle Opera Guild
  • Craig Grayson - Seattle Opera Chorus
  • Aimee Mell - Bravo! Club
  • Paul Rafanelli - Seattle Symphony and Opera Players Association
Honorary Life Members
  • Beverly Brazeau
  • Donald L. Johnson
  • Michael M. Scott
Advisory Board
  • Claire Bloom
  • John M. Bloxom
  • J. Tobias Bright
  • Vinson Cole
  • Norma B. Croco
  • Jane Davis
  • Mildred K. Dunn
  • Marion O. Garrison
  • Susanne F. Hubbach
  • Laura Ingham
  • Victoria Ivarsson
  • Ralph Kaminsky
  • Duff Kennedy
  • Lynn J. Loacker
  • Wah Lui
  • Betty McCurdy
  • Terrence McNally
  • Karen W. Morse
  • Linda Nordstrom
  • Marianna B. Price
  • Sam Rubinstein
  • Judy Schuchart
  • Kate Van Ness
  • Virginia Wright
Past Presidents
  • Norma B. Croco
  • Albert O. Foster*
  • Max E. Gellert
  • Harold H. Heath
  • H. Dewayne Kreager*
  • Frances A. LeSourd
  • James M. McDonald, Jr.
  • Stanley M. Minor
  • John F. Nesholm
  • Sheffield Phelps
  • Russell F. Tousley
  • Richard S. Twiss
  • Howard S. Wright*
Seattle Opera Foundation
  • Kenneth L. Schubert, Jr., President
  • James D. Cullen
  • Max E. Gellert
  • Lenore M. Hanauer
  • Jeffrey Hanna
  • John F. Nesholm (ex officio)
  • Anne M. Redman
  • Ev Trout
  • Craig Watjen
* Deceased

The Seattle Opera Premiere of Bellini’s Masterpiece:
I Puritani

Buy Tickets

Watch Director Linda Brovsky discusses Seattle Opera's I Puritani.

Watch Video

Listen KING FM Seattle Opera Channel Available On-line 24 hrs a day!

Listen Here

Photo Credit

Das Rheingold, 2000 © Gary Smith photo