What's New

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  Seattle Opera Announces 2008 International Wagner Competition Winners

  August 16, 2008, Seattle—Tonight from the stage of Marion Oliver McCaw Hall in Seattle, General Director Speight Jenkins announced the winners of Seattle Opera’s second International Wagner Competition. Elza van den Heever from South Africa and Michael Weinius from Sweden were selected from among the eight finalists by a panel of six distinguished judges.
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  Brownlee & Lynch
  Named Seattle Opera
  Artists of the Year

  During its Annual Meeting at McCaw Hall, Seattle Opera General Director Speight Jenkins announced that the company’s Artist of the Year awards went to tenor Lawrence Brownlee and set designer Thomas Lynch.
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  New Visions with Greer Fowler

  Greer Fowler, this month’s New Visions Artist, uses her oil paintings to elicit narratives of the every day. She captures her subjects taking part in otherwise unexamined routines. Her focus is the contemporary urban landscape and the ways in which people interact with it.
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  Seattle Opera Introduces LGBT Nights

  Seattle Opera is proud to launch LGBT Nights. Join us on three special nights throughout the season for a fabulous evening filled with entertainment and merriment at an unbeatable value.

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  Single Tickets Go on Sale
  for Aida and Elektra

  Verdi’s grandest of grand operas, Aida, opens Seattle Opera’s 2008/09 season in August. Aida is followed by Richard Strauss’s brooding drama Elektra in October.

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  Springtime Serenade’s Gift to Education

  Seattle Opera’s Springtime Serenade began the evening with champagne and sparkling performances from former Young Artists. The Gala ended with an amazing gift from the 375 attendees: an additional $72,000 for Seattle Opera’s education programs.
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  New Visions Artist Travels the World

  A career in radiation therapy may not seem to be the natural precursor to a second career in photography, but for Rozarii Lynch, this month’s New Visions artist, these two careers are inextricably linked.