From first-timers to long-time operagoers, our 2025/26 season is ready to entertain with charming swashbucklers, captivating seduction, and celebrated firsts.
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Experience opera your way with a variety of ticket purchasing options. From the traditional Classic Package to a Create Your Own Package or a Flex Pass, see what you want, when you want, and enjoy exclusive subscriber benefits. 2025/26 season packages are available now!
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2025/26 Mainstage Operas
The Pirates of Penzance
October 18–November 1, 2025 at McCaw Hall
Ahoy mateys! Get ready for opera on the high seas with GIlbert and Sullivan's popular piratical comedy. Making its Seattle Opera debut, this production of the family-friendly farce comes to Seattle following rave reviews at The Glimmerglass Festival, The Atlanta Opera, and Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
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Daphne in Concert
January 16 & 18, 2026 at McCaw Hall
This seldom-heard pastoral opera is "Strauss at his most ingenious" (The New York Times) and features thrilling, opulent orchestrations, including the celebrated "metamorphosis" scene concluding the opera. With members of the Seattle Symphony, Daphne is perfect for a concert presentation.
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Fellow Travelers
February 21–March 1, 2026 at McCaw Hall
Set in 1950s Washington, D.C., recent college graduate Timothy Laughlin and State Department official Hawkins Fuller kindle a romantic relationship and face impossible choices as they struggle to survive the Lavender Scare. One of the most frequently performed contemporary operas, this "striking" (American Record Guide) opera with a "ravishing musical score" (Cincinatti Enquirer) makes its Seattle premiere.
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Carmen
May 2–17, 2026 at McCaw Hall
One of the world's most popular operas ever! Bizet's famous music accompanies a lethal dance of lust, love, and survival that only stops when the struggle for freedom ends. "Opera's guilty pleasure" (The Seattle Times) returns in a "gorgeous production" (Seattle Magazine) featuring mezzo-sopranos J'Nai Bridges and Sasha Cooke.
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Add-on Performances
Beyeon the mainstage, we are excited to offer enriching classes, recitals, and the premiere of a new holiday show featuring Seattle's own Anita Spritzer! These offerings are available now as an add-on to Classic Packages and Create Your Own Packages.
Songbook Series
Join us for a series of Opera Center recitals throughout the season featuring a variety of artists from Seattle and beyond.
Melodious Mayhem with
GIlbert and Sullivan
[XYZ DATE] at The Opera Center
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Join us for tongue-twisting patter, light-hearted love songs, and more! Featuring your favorite tunes from titles like The Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore, and The Gondoliers, celebrate the wit and whimsy of Gilbert and Sullivan in an evening of comedy and toe-tapping tunes.
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An Evening of French Cabaret
[XYZ DATE] at The Opera Center
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Grammy Award-winning soprano Patricia Racette performs songs of famous French cabaret singer Édith Piaf. An "unforgettable evening concert" (The Daily Californian) offers a sensuous program of love and heartbreak with tunes like "La Vie en rose," "Hymne à l'amour," and many more.
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Songs of Pride
[XYZ DATE] at The Opera Center
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Celebrate Pride at the Opera Center with a recital featuring a variety of pieces and performers. Artists will perform a wide range of selections from past and present that honor and celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community of Seattle.
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Anita Spritzer's Gay Apparel
December 12 & 13, 2025
Tagney Jones Hall at the Opera Center
Price: $65 Subscribers; $70 General Public
Celebrate the holidays with the one and only Anita Spritzer! Hosted by tenor John Marzano (Pagliacci '24; Divo to Diva: Anita Spritzer in Recital '24; BRAVO! Halloween Party '24, '23; Alcina '23) as his drag persona Anita Spritzer, get ready to don your gayest apparel and join one of Seattle's favorite drag queens as she sings holiday favorites and celebrates the glitter and glitz of the festive winter season.
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More in the 2025/26 season
Opera 101
Tuesdays, September 2–October 7, 2025
Six online sessions | 6:30 PM
Price: $150 Sliding Scale Fee or 1 Flex Pass Credit
A gathering for music lovers, this lively and informative course will help you make sense of this larger-than-life art form by giving you some essential terms and taking you on a listening tour of some of the most popular operas in the repertoire.
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21st-Century Opera
Tuesdays, October 21–November 25, 2025
Six online sessions | 6:30 PM
Price: $150 Sliding Scale Fee or 1 Flex Pass Credit
Get to know contemporary opera in a class led by dramaturg Jonathan Dean. Spanning a large range of topics and musical styles, this class will help participants deepen their knowledge of the astonishing recent surge of operatic creativity.
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Queerness and Opera
Tuesdays, January 21–February 10, 2026
Six online sessions | 6:30 PM
Price: $150 Sliding Scale Fee or 1 Flex Pass Credit
From queer composers such as Britten and Tchaikovsky, to gender-expansive traditions in opera and queer interpretations of traditional operas, learn more about the long-standing role of queerness in opera both historically and today.
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An Immersive Seminar: Carmen
Tuesdays, April 7–May 19, 2026
The Opera Center
Five in-person sessions | 6:30 PM
Price: $150 Sliding Scale Fee or 1 Flex Pass Credit
Get to know the many sides of the audience-favorite and beloved opera, Georges Bizet's Carmen. Plus, when you register for this seminar, you will automatically be included in the one-night-only lecture by conductor Ludovic Morlot about Bizet on May 5.
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Opera Film Series
September 18 & October 2, 2025
February 5, March 12, & April 16, 2026
The Opera Center | 7:30 PM
Price: $35 per film
New this season! Come to the Opera Center for a viewing of films associated with The Pirates of Penzance, Fellow Travelers, and Carmen. Join us for one film or all five throughout the season and explore the cinematic overlap with our mainstage season.
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Questions? Call us at 206.389.7676. Representatives are available from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Monday through Friday to answer questions.
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