MEMETERIA by Thomas May

Music & the Arts

January 10, 2024 • 9:18 pm

Seattle Opera Announces 2024-25 Season

Seattle Opera today announced the lineup for its 2024-25 season. Three of the five mainstage operas are warhorses from the core repertoire: Pagliacci, The Magic Flute, and Tosca. The second part of Berlioz’s magnificent Les Troyens will be presented not in a full staging but in a concert version (though this is the company’s first-time excursion into Berlioz’s epic). And Jubilee, Tazewell Thompson’s opera about The Fisk Jubilee Singers, will be a world premiere. The rest of the season includes two chamber productions and a recital by tenor Frederick Ballentine, along with various additional Opera Center events, from an “Opera 101” series to background presentations on the Berlioz and Mozart operas.

General director Christine Scheppelmann’s tenure ends with the conclusion of the current season. There has been no update yet on the search for her successor.

The schedule is as follows:

Pagliacci

· Music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo

· August 3, 4, 10, 11, 14, 16, & 17, 2024

· McCaw Hall (321 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109)

· seattleopera.org/pagliacci

Jubilee

· Created & directed by Tazewell Thompson, vocal arrangements by Dianne Adams McDowell, orchestrated by Michael Ellis Ingram

· October 12, 13, 16, 19, 20, 22, & 25, 2024

· McCaw Hall (321 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109)

· seattleopera.org/jubilee

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