The Seattle Opera has announced that it will require proof of vaccination for the upcoming 2021-22 season. The company announced that it was “joining several Seattle performance organizations including Seattle Symphony in requiring masking and vaccinations or negative COVID-19 testing to ensure a safe and successful return of the Seattle area arts.” Rules will go into effect on Sept. 1 and {…}
Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Seattle Symphony have announced the inaugural cohort of the Seattle Arts Fellowship, a new initiative for emerging performing arts leader and administrators of color. The 2021-22 fellows are Dalanie Harris, Kierra Nguyen, and Gabriela Paez Shutt. They will be placed at Seattle Opera, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Seattle Symphony, respectively, where they will focus {…}
The Seattle Opera has announced its 2021-222 season. The season opens with “La Bohème” starring Kang Wang, Yosep Kang, Talise Trevigne, Michael Chioldi, John Moore, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Brandie Sutton, Ashraf Swailam, Federico de Michelis, Eugene Villanueva, Theo Hoffman, and Barry Johnson. Joseph Colaneri conducts. Performance Dates: Oct. 16-30, 2021 Key’mon Murrah, Christopher Ainslie, Sharleen Joynt, Deanna Breiwick, and Shelly Traverse {…}
The Seattle Opera has announced it will stream Jonathan Dove’s “Flight.” The production, which will stream from April 23 to 25, will star Randall Scotting, Sharleen Joynt, Joshua Kohl, Karen Vuong, Margaret Gawrysiak, Sarah Larsen, Joseph Lattanzi, Aubrey Allicock, Karin Mushegain, and Damien Geter. Viswa Subbaraman conducts the work in a production by Brian Staufenbiel. Kyle Seago will direct “Flight” {…}
Seattle Opera will be streaming Mozart and Da Ponte’s “Don Giovanni” on March 19-21, 2021. The famed opera will star Jared Bybee in the title role with Vanessa Goikotxea as Donna Anna and Laura Wilde as Donna Elvira. Michael Sumuel will take on the role of Leporello while Jasmine Habersham will interpret Zerlina. Kenneth Kellogg will appear as the Commendatore {…}
The Seattle Opera will be laying off 24 people who are currently on furlough, due to challenges presented by the ongoing pandemic. In a letter on the company’s official website, general director Christina Scheppelmann noted that the company had been hopeful of returning to live performances in early 2021, but realized that it would be unable to host a live {…}
Seattle Opera will premiere a recital featuring tenor Andrew Stenson on Jan. 29, 2021. The tenor will perform alongside pianist David McDade in a program that features love songs from the 20th century including Roger Quilter’s “Fair House of Joy,” “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes,” Go, Lovely Rose,” “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal,” and “Love’s Philosophy.” They will {…}
The Seattle Opera has announced its Spring digital series after canceling its originally planned 2020-21 season. Andrew Stenson presents a recital on YouTube Streaming Date: Jan. 29, 2021 Jasmine Habersham and WIll Thomas in Recital will perform a new recital. Streaming Dates: Feb. 19-March 12, 2021 Randall Scotting, Jeni Houser, Joshua Kohl, Karen Vuong, Maya Gour, Margaret Gawrysiak, Joseph Lattanzi, {…}
(Credit: Ópera Actual website) The Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla has announced that soprano Vanessa Goikoetxea will perform the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart and Da Ponte’s opera “Così fan tutte” On Nov. 1, 3, 5 & 7, 2020. Goikoetxea will replace soprano Carmela Remigio. Goikoetxea will join a cast that includes Maite Beaumont in the role of Dorabella, {…}
Seattle Opera has announced a new initiative to help cultivate and develop the next generation of opera composers and librettists in Washington State. The new Creation Lab will seek out 16 emerging composers and writers of all genres to give way to the creation of short operatic pieces, which will be performed during the 2020-21 Season. In a press statement, {…}
Metropolitan Opera tenor Robert McPherson, in collaboration with Seattle Opera, will showcase the singer’s soused alter-ego The Drunken Tenor in “The Drunken Tenor: Quarantini Edition.” The program is set to stream on the company’s website, YouTube, and Facebook June 26th at 7:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. EDT). Head of Coach-Accompanists pianist David McDade and soprano Jennifer Bromagen join McPherson’s tongue-in-cheek {…}