Seattle Opera will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Young Artists Program at their 2008 Gala "Springtime Serenade" on April 26 at McCaw Hall. An all-star lineup of former Young Artists will perform, including 2006 Richard Tucker award-winner Lawrence Brownlee and 2007 Richard Tucker award-winner Brandon Jovanovich.
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Seattle Opera's production of Puccini's Tosca opens at McCaw Hall on February 23, with two star-studded casts in nine performances running from Feb. 23 through March 9. As the heroine who fights for love, it's no surprise that Tosca is a favorite character for so many sopranos. Written by the composer of La Bohème and Madama Butterfly, this Italian opera features the ultimate triangle of passion: the opera diva Tosca, her lover Cavaradossi, and the villainous Baron Scarpia.
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Seattle Opera offers a Family Matinee for the Sunday, January 20 performance of Leoncavallo’s classic Pagliacci. Student tickets are available for $15 per student under the age of 18.
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BRAVO!, Seattle Opera’s club for opera-goers age 21 to 39, reported record membership this November. The club now has 511 members, the highest since the organization began in 1996, which makes it one of the largest clubs of its kind for classical music.
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Seattle Opera’s Young Artists are beginning their state-wide tour, performing two one-act operas, Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Donizetti’s Rita, in Friday Harbor, Eastsound, Mount Vernon, Wenatchee, Edmonds, Kirkland, and Seattle.
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Single tickets go on sale to the public September 10 for the final three productions in the Seattle Opera 2007/08 season as well as for all Young Artists performances.
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Seattle Opera's popular Young Artists Program returns to the Theatre at Meydenbauer Center for six performances of Verdi's Falstaff, on March 30, 31, April 1, 4, 6 and 7, 2007.
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Seattle Opera's first production of Handel's Julius Caesar (Giulio Cesare in Egitto) opens at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall and runs through March 10, 2007. General Director Speight Jenkins said that he chose this particular opera after hearing famed Polish contralto Ewa Podles perform the leading role at the Canadian Opera Company.
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Seattle Opera's 2007 Opera Goes to School program starts this week with performances of Theft of the Gold: The Ring Begins in Yakima and Shoreline. This adaptation of Wagner's Rheingold was created by Seattle Opera Education Artistic Administrator Jonathan Dean and was presented last season at schools through the Puget Sound region.
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Seattle Opera's general director, Speight Jenkins, officially announced the company's 2007/08 season. The season begins August 4, 2007 and runs through May 17, 2008 with performances at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall. The 2007/08 season opens with Wagner's Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) in August, followed by the premiere of a new co-production with the Metropolitan Opera of Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris (Iphigénie en Tauride) in October, 2007.
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Renowned director Stephen Wadsworth leads a team of award-winning designers for the opera companies' first joint production; acclaimed mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and legendary tenor Plácido Domingo star in New York cast.
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