Seattle Opera announced it will present the world premiere of The Wedding Banquet, a new comic opera by composer Huang Ruo and librettist James Schamus, inspired by Ang Lee’s beloved 1993 film and ...

The end of the season doesn't mean audiences have to wait until the fall to experience opera! Soak in the summer with Seattle Opera's exciting range of programming, including free public performances, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After over 100 performances in more than a dozen different productions playing the eponymous character, opera singer J’Nai Bridges ...

If you live in Seattle and you’ve never been to the Seattle Opera, you’ve been wasting a precious and delicious resource, and it’s time for this to stop. In addition to the fact that classical music ...

When it comes to a work that is more than 200 years old, it’s hard to imagine there’s any surprises left. But if you happen to find yourself with a ticket to the Seattle Opera performance of Mozart’s ...

Seattle Opera presents this "Magic Flute," which mixes live performance with projected animations and references to the world of silent film, Feb. 22-March 9. (Jaro Suffner) “The Magic Flute” has ...

The Seattle Opera had the perfect response to Timothée Chalamet’s recent remarks about ballet and opera. In a recent conversation with Matthew McConaughey, Chalamet said that “no one cares” about the ...

For the first time, traditional Negro spirituals will be sung as an opera, when Seattle Opera hosts the world premiere of “Jubilee,” on October 12. You can listen to the music and the story of how ...

Set during the McCarthy-era Lavender Scare of the 1950s, the opera by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Greg Pierce opened Saturday at McCaw Hall, marking the first time a production centered on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Silly Timothée Chalamet. The actor has, you've probably heard, come under fire this week for comments made during a Variety ...

Two years ago, moments before her first in-person meeting to discuss directing “A Thousand Splendid Suns” for Seattle Opera, Afghan film director Roya Sadat got a text message: The Taliban were ...