Seattle: Opera
Seattle Opera: Opera Around Seattle
Below are our Seattle Opera recommendations, with information on location, admission, transportation/parking, company/venue history and other points of interest in Seattle Art.
Seattle Opera
The Seattle Opera is recognized as America’s premiere presenter of Wagner operas. The company is also renowned for producing a large number of lesser-known operas and for performing many newer works. The Seattle Opera boasts the highest per capita attendance of the major opera companies in the United States through its mainstage performances, and the Opera serves thousands …more…
Tacoma Opera
Just four years after Seattle, its larger neighbor to the north, opera came to the City of Destiny as the Tacoma Opera Society presented Die Fledermaus at Pacific Lutheran University. After initial success, the Society fell on hard times. In the early 1980s it morphed into the broader-based Tacoma Opera and moved to the newly opened Broadway Performing Arts Center, …more…