Nov 21, 2020
Seattle Opera General Director Christina Scheppelmann spoke with soprano Jane Eaglen when “Seattle Opera Mornings on KING FM” played TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, a 1998 production that featured role debuts for both Eaglen (as Isolde) and Ben Heppner (as Tristan). Eaglen describes that eventful summer, what it’s like to...
Nov 14, 2020
Peter Kazaras has been a mainstay of Seattle Opera since his 1985 debut onstage singing the role of Steva in JENŮFA. His debut as a stage director came in 2003. As Artistic Director of Seattle Opera’s Young Artists Program from 2005 to 2013, plus his ongoing work as Director of Opera at UCLA, he has trained a...
Nov 7, 2020
Viswa Subbaraman will make his Seattle Opera debut next spring conducting FLIGHT. This young American conductor discussed Lakmé, and the operatic tradition of “exoticism”—European artworks using images of non-European places and cultures—with Seattle Opera General Director Christina Scheppelmann for...