Seattle Opera Guild

Aida: Bellini and Vivace
2018-04-22 15:45 (America/Los_Angeles)
Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
Arrival: 3:45pm (appetizers and no host bar)
Program: 5:00pm
Buffet: 6:00pm

Please RSVP to Sally Buckingham at 425.293.4510 or sally.buckingham21@gmail.com.
For last-minute driving directions, please call the hostess, Emily Bennett, at 425.488.8800.

Aida: Parties and Previews
2018-04-27 18:30
Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
Social: 6:30pm
Dinner: 7:30pm
Program: 8:30pm

Please RSVP to Sandra Boyd at 425.450.0671 or Emily Mattson at 206.920.0588.
For last-minute driving directions, please call Lesa and Matt Sroufe at 206.795.2190.

Rinaldo
2018-04-27 20:00, 2018-04-29 14:30
Pacific Opera Victoria at the Royal Theatre of Victoria, BC
Handel’s first big hit for the London stage, Rinaldo contains some of his most ravishing music and is an exotic story of war, religion, love, and sorcery. As a Christian army prepares to lay siege to Jerusalem during the First Crusade, politics, passion, and magic complicate matters. Glynis Leyshon will direct this masterpiece of Baroque opera.

Mercer Island and Allegro Fundraising Dinner
2018-04-28

Aida: Allegro and Mercer Island
2018-04-28 16:30
Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
Suggested Arrival Time: 4:30pm
Social: 5:00pm
Program: 5:30pm
Dinner: 6:30pm

Please RSVP to Sigrid Hokanson at 206.232.7696 or Gayle Charlesworth at 253.639.1423 or gaylewings@gmail.com.
Parking Available in garage across the street from Aljoya at 2441 76th Ave SE

Aida: Magnolia/Queen Anne Preview Group
2018-04-28 18:00
Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
Arrival: 6:00pm
Program: 8:00pm

Please RSVP to Alecia Rossano at 206.284.7556 of aleciarossano@gmail.com or Florence Rose Thompson at 206.915.7829 or ffrose@comcast.net.
For last-minute driving directions, please call 206.284.0055.

The Overcoat – a musical tailoring
2018-04-28 19:30, 2018-04-29 19:30, 2018-05-02 14:00, 2018-05-04 19:30, 2018-05-05 14:00, 2018-05-06 14:00, 2018-05-09 19:30, 2018-05-10 19:30 and 2 more dates
Vancouver Opera at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC
A much anticipated co-production with Toronto’s Canadian Stage Company and Tapestry Opera, The Overcoat – a musical tailoring is an operatic reinterpretation Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling’s 1998 smash-hit play, The Overcoat. With a libretto from Morris Panych and music composed by Canadian Composer, James Rolfe, this production reunites the original creative team. Morris Panych is the director, with choreography by Wendy Gorling, set design by Ken MacDonald. costume design by Nancy Bryant, and lighting design by Alan Brodie.
This extremely important work, addresses the universal human need for compassion and our unfortunate tendency to deny it. The Overcoat – a musical tailoring is so much more than the story of an office worker whose life is turned upside down when he’s robbed of his new overcoat. “Panych and Gorling… have delivered a work that grows richer on each subsequent viewing, a creation that combines laughter with pathos and exhilaration with despair.” – Toronto Star (on 2007’s The Overcoat). The work will debut at the Bluma Appel Theatre in March 2017 before coming to the Vancouver Playhouse—where the original creation premiered 20 years ago.

Eugene Onegin
2018-04-29 14:00, 2018-05-03 19:30, 2018-05-05 19:30
Vancouver Opera at Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, BC
Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is Russian Lyric Opera at its finest – based on the plot of Pushkin’s verse novel, Eugene Onegin features an emotional tale packed with breathtaking music, choreography, and a duel that will render the audience speechless. Tchaikovsky, as always, brings many symphonic elements to Eugene Onegin including lavish orchestrations and stunning arias in what he described as “seven lyrical scenes.”

Singers Development Award Finalist Auditions
2018-05-04 19:00
Contact: Christine Szabadi at caszabadi@gmail.com

Aida
2018-05-05 19:30, 2018-05-06 14:00, 2018-05-09 19:30, 2018-05-11 19:30, 2018-05-13 19:30
Seattle Opera at McCaw Hall
By Giuseppe Verdi
A profoundly personal love story told on a grand scale, Aida showcases Verdi’s power to translate human emotions into magnificent music. The high-stakes love triangle between a captured princess, a conflicted military commander, and the King’s formidable daughter unfolds amid glorious spectacle and rousing choruses—including the famous Triumphal March.
This visually imposing all-new production includes hieroglyphic projections by noted street artist RETNA and evocative choreography by in-demand visionary Jessica Lang. Aida looms large as a monumental masterpiece of the highest order.
(206) 389-7676

Roman Holiday: Young Handel’s Italian Adventures
2018-05-12
Pacific MusicWorks
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
4400 86th Avenue SE
Mercer Island, WA 98040
(206) 232-1572

Aida with live KING-FM broadcast
2018-05-12 19:30
Seattle Opera at McCaw Hall and KING-FM live broadcast on 98.1 FM
By Giuseppe Verdi
A profoundly personal love story told on a grand scale, Aida showcases Verdi’s power to translate human emotions into magnificent music. The high-stakes love triangle between a captured princess, a conflicted military commander, and the King’s formidable daughter unfolds amid glorious spectacle and rousing choruses—including the famous Triumphal March.
This visually imposing all-new production includes hieroglyphic projections by noted street artist RETNA and evocative choreography by in-demand visionary Jessica Lang. Aida looms large as a monumental masterpiece of the highest order.
(206) 389-7676

Roman Holiday: Young Handel’s Italian Adventures
2018-05-13 14:00 - 16:00
“At age 19, Georg Frideric Händel, not satisfied with being simply a local wonder in his native Germany, set off for Italy—the center of the 18th century musical universe—to find fame and fortune. In Rome, he worked alongside some of the most important musicians of the time and it was there that the young composer wrote some of his most dramatic, virtuosic and exciting works. This exceptional concert features internationally-acclaimed soprano Amanda Forsythe with Pacific MusicWorks Orchestra under the direction of Stephen Stubbs.” (Promo Copy)

UW Voice Division Recital
2018-05-14
Students of Thomas Harper
Kari Ragan & Cyndia Sieden
Brechemin Auditorium, UW Campus (free)
(206) 543-6450
