In addition to exciting new online and education and community engagement programs throughout the season, Seattle Opera honors its golden anniversary with its third International Wagner Competition on Augand a gala concert on August 9, 2014.
The third General Director in the company’s history will be named in 2013, to step into the leadership role when Speight Jenkins retires in 2014. In addition to celebrating the bicentennials of Verdi and Wagner, Seattle Opera honors its own 50th anniversary this year. The 2013/14 season is a very special one for Seattle Opera. It is a great tribute to fifty years of opera in Seattle and Speight’s final season to be able to maintain our artistic output.” Although the company has not been immune to the challenges of today’s economic environment, thanks to diligent planning by Speight Jenkins and the generosity of our board and patrons we were able to program a season that fulfills the company’s artistic mission and balances financial realities. I am proud to offer great voices, extraordinary music, compelling drama, and captivating productions-everything that I have always loved about opera.”Įxecutive Director Kelly Tweeddale says of the company’s immediate plans, “Seattle Opera is offering a four-opera season for 2013/14, as is always our practice following a summer in which we present the Ring. The operas this season include very successful Seattle Opera productions of Rigoletto and The Tales of Hoffmann The Consul, an important American opera which is new to our stage and a spectacular cast for La fille du régiment. “Several have won Seattle Opera’s Artist of the Year Award, and many are graduates of our own excellent Young Artists Program. “For my final season at Seattle Opera, I am delighted to present singers who have thrilled our audience time and again in recent years,” says Jenkins. Seattle Opera’s anniversary celebration then climaxes in August 2014 with the International Wagner Competition and a special celebration honoring Speight Jenkins, the company’s General Director since 1983. Starring singers beloved by the opera-goers of Seattle, the 2013/14 season offers subscribers a healthy variety of comedy and tragedy, reality and fantasy, in a mix of different musical styles and languages. Performances of Wagner’s Ring kick off the festivities this summer, followed by a subscription series of four operas. Seattle- Seattle Opera today announced the company’s 50th Anniversary Season.
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