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SEATTLE OPERA EDUCATION NEWSLETTER
VOL. 3 No. 1 SEPTEMBER 2OO7
Celebrating TEN Years!
Seattle Opera has achieved an
international reputation not only for the
compelling performances produced by the
company, but also for its far-reaching and
innovative educational programs.
Our educational programs serve both
opera novices and opera aficionados.
Seattle Opera produces up to 250
educational events each year, delivering
a diverse selection of educational
and outreach programs designed to
reach audiences of all ages. Through a
combination of free lecture programs,
discussions, and radio broadcasts, Seattle
Opera not only creates art but invites
people to share in that art—and this
heightens the excitement and relevance
of the opera experience. Those unfamiliar
with the art form are charmed and
informed by free lectures, witty preperformance
talks, creative study guides,
and exhilarating recitals.
“Seattle Opera visits grade schools,
middle schools, and high schools around
the state, brings teachers and students
to dress rehearsals, and even presents
opera directly in school communities,”
says Education Director Perry Lorenzo.
“There’s no age limit on becoming an
opera fan.”
This newsletter will give you a glimpse
into our education department’s multifaceted
programs. As we celebrate the
Ten Year Anniversary of our Young
Artists Program, we invite you to join us!
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Education Staff
Speight Jenkins, Seattle Opera
General Director
Perry Lorenzo, Director of Education
Peter Kazaras, Young Artists Program
Artistic Director
Adam Runions, Associate Director of
Education
Jonathan Dean, Education Artistic
Administrator
Justina Schwartz, Education Events
Manager
Seneca Garber, Education Programs
Coordinator
2007/08 Education Committee
Stephen A. Sprenger, Chairman
Thomas H. Allen
Cynthia Bayley
Ron Cathcart
John Delo
Susan Detweiler
Evette Glauber
Jeffrey Hanna
Edward L. Miles
Louise Miller
George C. Pagos
Rosemary W. Peterson
Dana A. Rasmussen
Eulalie Schneider
Joan S. Watjen
Jiawen Shi (BRAVO! Club
representative)
A Message from Perry Lorenzo, Director of Education
“Art is the signature of Man!”
—G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
The great wit G.K. Chesterton once commented
that we know little about the cave men except what
they put on their walls: art! Art is evidence that
human beings were there. Art is the signature of
humanity—a glimpse of human dignity and beauty.
Seattle Opera not only creates art but also invites
people to share in that art through educational
programs.
Perry Lorenzo
Seattle Opera Educates Artists
What a magnificent vocation for a human
being—to be an artist, to sing, to act, to create beauty with the human voice
and body. Ten years ago, Seattle Opera founded a Young Artists Program, thus
completing its service to three major audiences: today’s operagoers, fans of the
future, and up-and-coming young opera singers. These young singers in their
twenties come to Seattle Opera to develop their artistic craft and professional
skills so that they can enact that vocation. They work on arias and scenes, they
sing for communities statewide, and they share their art with school children.
Best of all, they perform a full opera each year, each Young Artist embodying an
opera character: a Figaro, a Mimì, a Falstaff. Many of the Young Artists go on
to sing principal roles on Seattle Opera’s mainstage and in opera houses around
the country.
Seattle Opera Educates Audiences
Through the English captions projected above the stage, pre-performance
lectures, and Spotlight guides to each opera, audiences at Seattle Opera deepen
their understanding and love of the art form. The personal stories of the
composers, the dramatic sweep of the operas’ themes, the visual pageantry of
the productions, the rich variety of styles of singing, the history and literature on
which the operas are based—all that is encompassed by opera invites audiences
to deepen their understanding and enjoyment.
Perry Lorenzo at a BRAVO! Club event at
Sherman Clay (Bill Mohn photo)
Seattle Opera Educates Children
Thousands of high school students enjoy learning about the operas in their
humanities classes and by attending dress rehearsals at McCaw Hall. Hundreds
of grade-schoolers are engrossed in acting and singing in adapted versions
of Mozart’s Magic Flute or Wagner’s Rheingold (see the article on Theft of the
Gold: The Ring Begins), alongside real opera singers. Young people enjoy opera
because they thrill to the rush of the music and the passion of the drama just as
easily as anyone. They will grow up to be the artists and audiences of tomorrow.
Through our education programs, Seattle Opera enriches the lives of children,
opera audiences, and artists, helping the art form of opera add to the beauty
and dignity of humanity. Chesterton was right. Art is our signature! And opera
education is our contribution.
—Perry Lorenzo, Education Director
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A Note from Peter Kazaras,
Young Artists Program Artistic Director
Welcome to the 10th
Anniversary season of our
Young Artists Program.
Our aim is involvement—
we don’t foster passive
learning, but emphasize
the experiential, utilizing
production as an essential
element of learning.
We do this in our work with students in the
schools, and in this respect, Seattle Opera is a
nationally recognized leader in the field. The
Peter Kazaras
contribution the Young Artists Program makes
to this work is major, and it is one of which I am
truly proud. Both through our proactive state-of-the-art teacher training and
through programs in the schools such as our Theft of the Gold residencies, we
manage to impact the community in a profound way from the bottom up, making
a difference in how people learn. In working with the schools, we make sure
that the fourth, fifth and sixth grade students have fun because they participate
instead of just watching. When you add in the genius of the composers we have
used for the residency programs (Wagner and Mozart), you have active learning
which is also inspirational.
Our fall “black-box style” touring operas this season will be Donizetti’s Rita
and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti. Tahiti remains a phenomenon fifty years after
its premiere—an astonishingly prescient piece that Bernstein wrote just after
his marriage to actress Felicia Montealegre. What a honeymoon present! Rita is
also a special, quirky and comical piece, with its politically incorrect view of the
eternal war between men and women. In the spring, we will be presenting fully
staged productions of two classic ensemble operas: Puccini’s comic masterpiece
Gianni Schicchi and Ravel’s mysterious and moving L’enfant et les sortilèges. When
you see any of these shows performed in our intimate venues such as the Theatre
at Meydenbauer Center or the Capitol Hill Arts Center, your opera experience
is sure to be arresting and different.
What we are doing is presenting opera as theatrical and musical entertainment,
and that must always be our most important goal. Our Young Artists not only
must know and understand the material but also must learn how to access all
the creativity and talent at their command in order to achieve excellence in
performing. We want our Young Artists to be able to connect with whatever
audience sits before them, whether they are singing at a major opera house or for
a class of fifth graders. And we strive to give all our Young Artists the training
that allows them to achieve both of these goals. Come see what we have in store!
—Peter Kazaras, Young Artists Program Artistic Director
Alexis Martin and Peter Kazaras during a
Young Artists production rehearsal (Bill
Mohn photos)
2006/07 Education Events
Event Name # Attendees
Overtures to
the Opera 44 6,436
Opera Unabridged 5 326
Season Previews 3 315
Public Lectures 21 1,774
Private Lectures 18 1,308
Q&A with
Speight Jenkins 44 4,195
Aspects of
the Opera 5 149
Seattle University
Lecture Series 12 758
Opera Goes
to School 9 1,879
Experience Opera
School Visits
and Tours 33 2,039
Experience Opera
Dress Rehearsals 8 3,780
Experience Opera
Recitals 7 530
Young Artists
Recitals 16 2,690
Touring
Performances 10 3,365
Young Artists
Opera: Falstaff 8 2,380
Events Total 243 31,924
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Schools Participating in
Seattle Opera’s Education
Programs in 2006/07
Auburn High School
Blanchet High School
Center School
Central Washington University
Cornish College
Cottonwood Elementary, Yakima
Edmonds-Woodway High School
Evergreen Elementary School
Family Learning Center
Granite Falls High School
Hoquiam High School
Inglemoor High School
Kennedy High School
Lake Stevens High School
Marshall Middle
Mercer Island High School
Methow Arts
Nathan Hale High School
Newport High School
NOVA High School
Olympia High School
Pierce College, Tacoma
Pioneer Elementary, Auburn
Roosevelt High School
Seattle Academy
South Kitsap High School
Spruce Street School
St. Benedict’s
St. Joseph’s School
Stevenson Elementary, Bellevue
The Northwest School
Timberline High School
University of Washington
University Prep
Viewlands Elementary
Washington Middle School
Wenatchee High School
West Valley High School
Woodinville High School
Yakima Valley Community College
Teenagers Experience Opera
For seventeen years, Seattle Opera’s Experience Opera program has drawn on
the natural affinity of teenagers for opera’s high drama. Seattle Opera, in a
partnership with schools from all over Washington, invites high school students
to attend final dress rehearsals for its season productions. Nearly 4,000 teens
attend final dress rehearsals over the course of an average season.
And better yet, they come prepared to soak up the multimedia experience
that is opera. Students study the
background history, the source
text, the libretto, the music, or
famous productions of the opera
in detail. They dive right in with
the guidance of their teachers (last
year, seventy teachers attended the
training workshops Seattle Opera
provides for each opera) and the
Experience Opera staff who visit
classrooms.
Most of our Experience Opera schools
also hold a large assembly each
year, at which a group of Seattle
Opera’s Young Artists will perform
Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in
Tahiti.
Middle Schoolers Navigate Opera’s Craft
Jonathan Dean at Shorecrest High School
(Marissa Elliott photo)
Now in its second year, our creative Backstage Tour program takes junior high
students behind the curtain to explore both the world of opera and a world of
vocations they probably have never before imagined.
Built around a one-hour backstage tour of McCaw Hall, the program allows for
exposure to the many elements of opera production, from sets, costumes, and
props, to lights, music, and special effects. Hearing about set construction is one
thing; seeing the heights of the flyspace backstage is another.
On the 2006/07 tours, students met some of the behind-the-scenes artists, as
well as members of the Young Artists Program, who gave an informal half-hour
recital for them in the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall. The informal nature of the
program allowed the middle school students to ask questions and talk with the
young singers about the challenges and rewards of being an opera singer.
Perry Lorenzo and students at a Seattle
Opera dress rehearsal (Bill Mohn photo)
“Opera Is Elementary,” New Wagner Fans Declare
In its third year, Theft of the Gold: The Ring Begins continues to enchant
students at some very familiar places. The partnerships built with schools and
communities over the six years of Seattle Opera’s elementary school residencies
have cultivated a rich tradition of young opera fans and valuable learning.
The opera, an hour-long English adaptation of Das Rheingold (the first opera in
Wagner’s Ring cycle), features roles for about fifty school children. An eager
group of fourth- and fifth-graders from six schools teamed up with actors and
singers from the Seattle Opera Young Artists Program to present the opera for
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At left: Alberich and the
Nibelungs (Joshua Jeremiah and
Evergreen Elementary School
students) (Rozarii Lynch photo)
an audience consisting of the rest of their school communities: teachers, parents,
and younger students. In 2006, there were also two additional performances
open to the public.
While the Young Artists perform the roles of Wagner’s gods, dwarves,
giants, and Rhine Daughters, children from each school enact the roles of
the Nibelungs and nature spirits. They also design costumes and props, learn
blocking (including a dance), and sing Wagner’s music. The small “orchestra”
of elementary school students plays appropriate leitmotifs on instruments the
kids find or create. This is combined with an imaginative touring production
consisting of comic book-like panels based on the art of P. Craig Russell
(created by Seattle Opera’s own Kitty Kavanaugh), and clever costumes by
Cynthia Savage, bringing this grand Norse myth into a contemporary style.
The thread that knits together this epic tale in its new abridgement is a
character not found in Wagner’s libretto: Father Rhine, the father of the
Rhine Daughters. He functions in Theft of the Gold as a narrator and also as the
conductor of the student orchestra. Father Rhine occasionally interrupts the
action to ask the students questions about the issues raised by the story. When
Alberich decides that power is more valuable than love, Father Rhine asks the
audience what they value most in all the world. Answers so far have included “a
snow tiger,” “My XBox,” and “Another little sister!”
Above: Fasolt, Freia, and Fafner (Joshua Jeremiah, Ani Maldjian, and Teresa S. Herold) in Theft of
the Gold at Evergreen (Rozarii Lynch photo)
At right: Alberich and the Rhine Daughters (Joshua Jeremiah, Teresa S. Herold, Ani Maldjian,
and Caitlin Lynch) during an Evergreen Elementary School performance of Theft of the Gold (Rozarii
Lynch photo); Theft of the Gold performance at Pioneer Elementary School (Rozarii Lynch photo);
Evergreen students with Wotan teddybears (Rozarii Lynch photo); Evergreen student in the Theft of
the Gold orchestra (Rozarii Lynch photo)
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2007/08 Young Artists
Productions
Introducing the 2007/08 Young Artists
Seattle Opera’s Young Artists
Program continues its fall series of
complete one-act operas, performed
in English and with piano, and
staged by Artistic Director Peter
Kazaras.
Rita
A startlingly modern take on
marriage, this charming, rarely
performed comic opera by Gaetano
Donizetti concerns Rita, a lady
innkeeper with two husbands—
neither of whom wants her!
Trouble in Tahiti
One of the great American
operas Leonard Bernstein’s ironic
masterpiece follows a day in the
life of a typical suburban American
couple. Bernstein mixed together
popular and classical music,
comedy and tragedy, to create
his view of the American dream
back in 1953, but it’s every bit as
powerful and relevant today.
Noah Baetge
Tenor
Seattle, WA
Eugene Chan
Baritone
Daly City, CA
Leena Chopra
Soprano
Toronto, Canada
Margaret Gawrysiak
Mezzo-Soprano
Geneseo, IL
Joshua Jeremiah
Baritone
Myerstown, PA
David Lara
Baritone
Buhler, KS
Ani Maldjian
Soprano
Los Angeles, CA
Michael Anthony
McGee
Bass-Baritone
Dallas, TX
Theft of the Gold: The Ring Begins
Please see page 5.
Ravel’s Enchanted Child &
Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi
In the spring, the Young Artists
return to Bellevue’s Theatre at
Meydenbauer Center for two
classic one-act operas. Both are
sterling examples of ensemble
opera. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi is
a comic masterpiece of cunning
characterization, in which virtually
every line crackles with life. It
features the gorgeous and famous
aria “O mio babbino caro.” Ravel’s
Enchanted Child (L’enfant et les
sortilèges) is a very special piece
which reveals something unique
and treasurable about the mystery
of childhood.
Megan Marie Hart
Soprano
Eugene, OR
Emily Hindrichs
Soprano
New Orleans, LA
* Fall programs only
† Spring operas only
Elizabeth Pojanowski
Mezzo-Soprano
Ramsey, NJ
Marcus Shelton
Tenor
Edmonds, WA
This season’s Young Artists will perform Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti
and Donizetti’s Rita in the fall, Theft of the Gold in the winter, and fully staged
productions of Ravel’s Enchanted Child and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi in the spring.
For dates and ticket information,
please visit www.seattleopera.org
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Education/Young Artists Program Donors
Seattle Opera gratefully acknowledges its 2006/07 Education and Young Artists
Program donors. Through their leadership and philanthropy, these supporters
help the company to reach local audiences through an array of education and
outreach programs. To those donors we were unable to list due to limited space
we extend our sincere appreciation for their support.
$50,000 and Above
4Culture
98.1 Classical KING FM
ArtsFund
The E.K. and Lillian F. Bishop
Foundation
Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts
and Sciences
The Clowes Fund, Inc.
Estate of Archie A. Drake
James R. and Gretchen F.
Faulstich
Gertrude E. Sprenger
Education Endowment
$10,000--$49,999
Amgen, Inc.
Bank of America
William J. and Sandra Dunn
Lenore M. Hanauer
Hans Wolf Memorial Fund for
Young Artists
The Herman Lissner Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Everil E. Loyd, Jr.
Tom McQuaid, Jr.
Paul G. Allen Foundation
Family Foundation
Peach Foundation
PONCHO
Seattle Opera Guild
Symetra Financial
True-Brown Foundation
U.S. Bank
Estate of Hans Wolf
Arlene Wright
$4,000--$9,999
Mr. and Mrs. Willie C. Aikens
Dr. and Mrs. Les Barnette
Bellevue Arts Commission
John and Carmen Delo
Fales Foundation Trust
Roland and Geraldine Hoefer
Humanities Washington
National Endowment for the Arts
The Peg and Rick Young
Foundation
Richard H. and Rosemary
Peterson
Dana Rasmussen
Ms. Eulalie Schneider
Wyman Youth Trust
Anonymous (1)
$1,500--$3,999
Frank S. Bayley
Mr. Thomas Delfeld and
Ms. Sabrina MacIntyre
Ms. Nancy Garrett
Elizabeth Giblin
Mr. Mark S. Greene
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Grinstein
Ms. Kristina Haight
Ms. Suzanne Hittman
Linda James
Mr. Steven T. Johnson
Mr. Nicholas Kaiser
Ann H. Milam
Ms. and Mr. Lila Nielsen
Dana Rasmussen
Dr. and Mrs. Saul Rivkin
Koryn Rolstad
Mr. John Stefanchik
Mr. Frederick Strom
Target Stores
$750--$1,499
Mr. Jerry Anches
Ms. Drucilla Briggs
Mr. Brian Bross and
Ms. Bonnie Daniels
William B. and Ann Burstiner
Ms. M.M. Cromarty
Mr. Donald O. Denegar
Drs. Carol and Costel Denson
Ms. Jacqueline Dusenbury
Mr. Clifford Floberg
Mr. and Mrs. A. Richard Gemperle
Dr. Herbert P. Gordon
Dr. M. Elizabeth Halloran
Jeffrey and Rosario Hanna
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Herrmann
John Kander
Henry & Elaine Kaufman
Foundation
Stafford and Louise Miller
Anonymous (1)
$350-749
Dr. and Mrs. Harold L. Amoss
Ms. Sylvia Berquist
Mr. Neil Bogue
BRAVO! Club
Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Brown
Mr. Dean Burton
Ms. Corinne A. Campbell
Ms. Kati Cardea
Mrs. Mary M. Clise
Ms. Candace Coe
Mrs. Patricia S. Collins
Dr. and Mrs. Hull Cook
Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Cook
Ms. Taya Countryman
Mr. and Mrs. William Daniel
Ms. Betty Eberharter
Mrs. Olga Ann Ellick
Mr. Joseph Ellin
Mr. Russell Elliott
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ferrier
Ms. Priscilla A. Fortiner
Mr. and Mrs. Erik Frederickson
Mrs. Jane N. Freyd
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Frothingham
Ben and Charlotte Fulton
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond M. Galante
Dr. Jerry and Mrs. Ruth Galm
Lois and Gene Graham
Mrs. Margaret J. Graham
Horacio Gutierrez
Ms. Clare M. Hansen
Mr. and Mrs. David Hardy
Dr. Don Hebard
Mrs. Dorothy Hendricks
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Houston III
Mr. Ron J. Hull
Barbara Husseini
Mr. Thayne Jongeward
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Kalish
Mr. and Mrs. Travis H. Keeler
Ms. Karil S. Klingbeil
Mr. and Mrs. James Lambo
Ms. Melissa Lattimore
Mr. Richard H. Levy
Mr. Robert M. Lindsay Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Donn Livingstone
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon MacPherson
Ms. Karen Maneman
Dianne Mardon
Christine Margelli
Mr. David Marsten
Ms. Michaela Mattos
Ms. Mary Metastasio
Dr. James T. Monahan
Ms. Agnes Moran
Mr. Chris Nelson
Ms. Laura Neuman
Ms. Karen A. Oatey
Mr. Michael OíBrian
Gordon and Betty Orians
Mr. Mark Reed
Mrs. Marilyn G. Ridge
Mr. Michael Rojas
Mr. and Ms. Carl Sanders
Mr. Felice Sciulli
Dr. and Mrs. Floyd A. Short
Mr. P. Edward Simpson
Mr. Landry Slade and
Ms. Gretchen Van Meter
Ms. Karin Smith
John and Rose Southall
Mr. J. Craig Spittel
Ms. Sylvia Steen
Mrs. Betty Sullivan
Ms. Ellyn Swanson
Dr. Michael P. Theisen
Mary Anne Thorbeck
Morry and Faye Tolmach
Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Torgerson
Mr. Dave Treiber
Mrs. Ruth Trubner
Dr. Nancey Tsai
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Turner
Thomas and Marjorie Tyler
Dr. and Mrs. Louis Vontver
Betty L. Wagner
Mr. George Wallerstein
Mr. Michael B. Widmer
Brandon and Stephanie Williams
Ms. Barbara Wollman
Speight Jenkins with donors William J. and
Sandra Dunn (Monte Jacobson photo)
Education Committee member Louise
Miller and Education Committee chairman
Stephen A. Sprenger at the 2006 Young
Artists welcome party (Rozarii Lynch
photo)
Gretchen Faulstich and Susanne L.
Hubbach at the Diamond Donor Dinner
(Bill Mohn photo)
Donors Joan Watjen and Louise Miller
(standing and far right) with Seattle Center
Director Robert Nellams and his family at
the 2007 gala (NonFiction Media photo)
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Seattle Opera Education Facts at a Glance
General Information
Full-Time Regular Staff: 5
Education Committee: 15 members
2006/07 Operating Expenses: $923,000
Programs and Services Young Artists Program
Free public lectures
Aspects of the Opera (talks at Elliott Bay Book
Company)
Experience Opera (high school program)
Opera Goes to School (grade school program)
Opera Unabridged (public seminars)
Overtures to the Opera (pre-performance lectures)
Post-Performance Q&As (free for ticketholders)
Season Previews
Tuesday Lecture Series at Seattle University (free)
BRAVO! Club Lectures
Opera broadcasts hosted by Speight Jenkins
Student Attendance at Dress Rehearsals in 2006/07 3,780
Spotlight Guides Distributed More than 20,000
Educational CDs Magic Fire, Broken Vows, and Passionate
Love: Speight Jenkins’ Guide to the Ring
Speight Jenkins’ Enjoying Wagner’s Ring of
the Nibelungen
Exploring the Ring with Perry Lorenzo
The Magic Flute: A Hero’s Quest (opera
adaptation for children)
Total Audience Served in 2006/07 More than 200,000 (including radio audience)
Front Cover: Teresa Herold, Anya
Matanovic, Sasha Cooke, and Caitlin
Lynch in the 2007 production of Falstaff
(Rozarii Lynch photo); Speight Jenkins
Q & A (Bill Mohn photo);
Perry Lorenzo at Seattle University (Bill
Mohn photo); Family Day at L’italiana
(Bill Mohn photo); Jonathan Dean’s
tour of McCaw Hall (Rozarii Lynch
photo); Joshua Jeremiah in the 2007
production of Falstaff (Rozarii Lynch
photo). Across Bottom: Masterclass:
Eduardo Chama coaches Anya Matanovic
(Bill Mohn photo); Noah Baetge
and students (Yakima) in Theft of the Gold
(Justina Schwartz photo); Ani Maldjian
and Michael Anthony McGee in The
Maid Becomes the Mrs! (Bill Mohn photo).
Back Cover: Family Day operagoers
with chorus member Bob Leavens (Bill
Mohn photo); Former Young Artist
Edlyn de Oliveira and Jonathan Dean
at Festa Italiana (Bill Mohn photo); Don
Giovanni display at Festa Italiana (Bill
Mohn photo); the 2007 production of
Falstaff: Caitlin Lynch, David Lara,
Joshua Jeremiah, Marc Webster, and
Teresa Herold.(Rozarii Lynch photo)
Young Artists Program
Date Founded 1998
Singers Auditioned Annually 400–500
Singers Chosen 10–15
Length of 2007/08 Program 20 weeks
Venue of Full-Opera Performance The Theatre at Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue,
Washington; seating capacity of 400
Orchestra for Full-Opera Performance Members of the Auburn Symphony
Seattle Opera Education Service Directory
General Education Inquiries 206.676.5567
Fax 206.389.7651
Donation Inquiries 206.676.5531
Web Site www.seattleopera.org
Mailing Address P.O. Box 9248, Seattle, WA 98109
Street Address 1020 John Street, two blocks west of Fairview
Tickets 206.389.7676 / 800.426.1619 /
tickets@seattleopera.org
Group Sales 206.676.5588
Opera Education Groups Associated with Seattle Opera
BRAVO! Club 206.676.5553 / bravo@seattleopera.org
Seattle Opera Guild 206.232.8723
Wagner and More (WAM) 206.676.5839 / wam@seattleopera.org
Editor Hilda Cullen
Deputy Editor Rosie Gaynor
Photo Researcher Monte Jacobson
Contributors: Seneca Garber, Adam Runions, Justina Schwartz
Design & Publishing Services Encore Media Group
All photos by Rozarii Lynch unless otherwise noted
©2007 Seattle Opera. All rights reserved. No part of this newsletter may be reproduced in any form
without written consent from Seattle Opera.
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