This February, Seattle Opera will present the trailblazing opera Fellow Travelers, a gay love story set during the Lavender ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Thousand Splendid Suns, a lovely phrase from a 17th-century Persian poem, is the title of a 2007 novel by ...

Seattle Opera has announced its 2023/24 season, which celebrates the company's 60th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Seattle Opera offers a range of titles spanning nearly all of opera's history, ...

Seattle Opera has announced James Robinson as the company's next General and Artistic Director from September 4, 2024. Robinson will replace Christina Scheppelmann, who takes over as artistic director ...

A week before Naomi André’s panel this month on Black representation in the arts, Seattle Opera closed registration for attendance. The number of online reservations had hit the 300-person capacity of ...

Have an honest talk with a drag artist about their schedule during Pride Month and they’re likely to paint their weekslong frenzy of back-to-back gigs in Dickensian terms. The best of times ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Seattle Opera has been a lively oasis of culture in the Pacific Northwest since 1963. Founded by a glitzy ...

When Asa Irwin was growing up in Seattle, she knew talented black singers who performed in churches and sang in competitions. But “you never actually saw people of color performing in the major venues ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

When you heard Ludovic Morlot was moving on from the Seattle Symphony, did you think, “Wow, seems like he just got here?” Well, Seattle Opera general director Aidan Lang can top that. The company ...

Jubilee is a quintessentially ensemble opera, for which Thompson assembled an excellent cast of 13 singers, most of them making their Seattle Opera debuts ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The most beautiful expression of human ...

Seattle Opera’s 2020–2021 season is set to include a production Don Giovanni with a female duo at the helm, Puccini’s Tosca, and a mid-season concert from Angela Meade and Jamie Barton. Kicking off ...