Performance Archive

What goes around comes around on Mozart’s carousel of karma. Legendary libertine Don Giovanni is skilled in seduction yet lacks a moral compass, thoughtlessly moving from conquest to conquest. Designed especially for filming by Stage Director Brenna Corner.

By popular demand, we are bringing back Donizetti’s bubbly comedy. The Elixir of Love has everything: a charming love story, a fast-talking con man, colorful costumes, and masterful singing. Filmed at McCaw Hall and cleverly staged, don't miss your chance to experience a wonderful cast perform this bel canto classic.

"The audience practically raised the roof" (Bachtrack) in the jazz-infused production of Charlie Parker's Yardbird.  While the body of tormented bebop innovator Charlie “Yardbird” Parker lies unidentified in a New York City morgue, his ghost travels back to the 1940s–50s heyday of Birdland, the jazz club named after him. As he struggles to complete his final masterpiece, the legendary saxophonist revisits the demons, inspirations, and women who have fueled and hindered his creative genius.

This elegant Russian romance came to life on the McCaw Hall stage for the first time in a "sumptuous expertly performed Seattle Opera production" (Crosscut) complete with breathtaking music by Tchaikovsky, and a story based on Alexander Pushkin's masterful verse novel.

Originally created from interviews with active-duty soldiers and veterans, this chamber opera traces the inner journey of a comatose soldier after she suffers a roadside attack and serves as an ode to American service members.

The Costa-Jackson sisters delighted audiences in this one-night-only concert of sibling revelry. The Three Singing Sisters were joined by pianist John Keene for a mixed-genre program featuring opera, musical theater, and Italian art song.

Audiences were treated to a "rollicking good time" (The Seattle Times) in this clever take on a classic tale of forgiveness and love. Director Lindy Hume's Victorian inspired production paired with vocal fireworks from start to finish, made for an evening of levity and laughter at this whimsical Rossini opera.

Director Lindy Hume's modern adaptation of Verdi's melodrama is "more real and emotionally impactful than any production of Rigoletto I’ve witnessed." (San Francisco Classical Voice).

Filled with iconic music and lavish sets and costumes, Bizet’s thrilling story of deadly obsession has seduced audiences for over a century.

This Grammy^® Award-winning opera goes behind the headlines of the visionary Apple co-founder as Steve Jobs faces his mortality and revisits 18 of his most important memories in search of a perfect moment to take with him.