Seattle Opera Podcast

Learn more about this fresh, fascinating, and wholly operatic new work, which audiences have been consuming like a new Apple product. Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean introduces The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, the opera with music by Mason Bates and libretto by Mark Campbell. Musical examples from the new recording of the opera made at Santa Fe Opera, summer 2017, and available from Pentatone...

Are you ready for the wildest opera by the person many consider opera's greatest composer? Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean introduces Il trovatore, with musical examples from Seattle Opera's archival recordings of Il trovatore: from 1997, with Carol Vaness (Leonora) and Gegam Grigorian (Manrico), and Gordon Hawkins (Count Di Luna), conducted by Antonello Allemandi; and from 2010, with Malgor...

Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean leads a tour through the land of soprano, from dazzling coloratura acrobats to fearsome goddesses whose roar sets the opera house aflame. Includes musical examples featuring many favorite Seattle Opera sopranos: Cyndia Sieden, Joan Sutherland, Sarah Coburn, Sally Wolf, Dana Pundt, Jennifer Zetlan, Nuccia Focile, Angel Blue, Alexandra Deshorties, Renee Fleming,...

Nitara Dandapani, a clinical social worker and youth mental health therapist with Childhaven, discusses THE TURN OF THE SCREW with Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean. Headquartered in Seattle, Childhaven heals children and families to stop the cycle of abuse and neglect. Dandapani and Dean discuss the attachment issues of Miles and Flora, the history of trauma at Bly, and question many of the c...

Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean investigates two voice types infrequently encountered in opera: trebles (boy sopranos and adolescent female sopranos) and countertenors. Features conversation with Seattle Opera coach-accompanist Jay Rozendaal, and musical examples: TURN OF THE SCREW (Rafi Bellamy Plaice and Forrest Wu), LAKMÉ (Harolyn Blackwell), THE MAGIC FLUTE (Johanna Mergener, Emili Rice,...

Seattle Opera General Director Aidan Lang checks in, midway through our run of THE TURN OF THE SCREW, with some nuanced reflections on this enigmatic piece from the point of view of someone born and bred in England. With musical examples featuring Maria Zifchak (Mrs. Grose), Elizabeth Caballero (the Governess), Marcy Stonikas (Miss Jessel), and the orchestra of Seattle Opera conducted by Constanti...

Meet the cast of Seattle Opera's TURN OF THE SCREW in this downloadable podcast! Singers Marcy Stonikas (Miss Jessel) and Ben Bliss (Peter Quint) introduce themselves and their colleagues: Elizabeth Caballero (the Governess), Maria Zifchak (Mrs. Grose), Rafi Bellamy Plaice and Forrest Wu (Miles), and Soraya Mafi (Flora). Hear brief clips of Caballero as Donna Elvira (in DON GIOVANNI at Seattle Ope...

Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean introduces the eerie musical world of Britten's THE TURN OF THE SCREW, with special focus on the opera's theme-and-variation structure. Musical examples from Seattle Opera's 1994 performances, starring Lauren Flanigan (The Governess), Joyce Castle (Mrs. Grose), Fraser Walters and Cyndia Sieden (Miles and Flora), and Linda Pavelka (Miss Jessel) and Peter Kazara...