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Seattle Opera Podcast

May 28, 2020

Tosca, featured on "Seattle Opera Mornings on KING FM" on May 30,  is both a great opera for newbies to the art form and a rewarding piece to hear multiple times; it’s accessible—a ‘thriller’ as cinematic as any Hollywood classic—and also stacked with layers of sumptuous artistry to savor. Seattle Opera...


May 20, 2020

Are you ready for this weekend (May 23)'s KING FM rebroadcast, the wildest opera by the person many consider opera’s greatest composer? Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean introduces Il trovatore, with musical examples from Seattle Opera’s archival recordings of Il trovatore: from 1997, with Carol Vaness (Leonora)...


May 13, 2020

In this series of podcasts, Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean gives listeners a taste of nine different types of traditional opera. Operetta is a delightful kind of entertainment resembling opera, but different; whereas in opera the music tells the story, in operetta the music decorates a story which is...


May 6, 2020

In this series of podcasts, Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean gives listeners a taste of nine different types of traditional opera. Singspiel (that’s German for SongPlay) mixes songs, dialogues, choruses, and marvelous orchestral writing with fun and fantasy for a lowbrow, family friendly art form—the ancestor...