Note: This event has been postponed. Pianist Joanne Polk, faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music, performs a recital of solo piano works by American composer Amy Beach.

Postponed: Guest Pianist Recital — Joanne Polk

Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse Theater

Join Dramaturg Jonathan Dean and fellow opera-lovers in person to explore what "modern music" really means and trace the surprising twists of Strauss's long and influential career. Students will attend and discuss our production of Salome (sold separately). We will also look at many of Strauss's other operas, songs and tone poems.

Those taking this class are invited to a special screening of Seattle Opera’s January 2026 streaming version of Daphne, in-person at the Opera Center, from 4:00–5:45 PM on Tuesday, October 6. Following a dinner break, the evening class then begins as scheduled at 7:00 PM.

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Opera Class: The Operas of Richard Strauss

Seattle Center

Experience a recital featuring selections composed by Grammy Award-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank. Listen to her work and preview music from our upcoming production of El último sueño de Frida y Diego.

Gabriela Lena Frank: A Musical Portrait

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is back at Seattle Children’s Theatre, and this time wrapped in tinsel! Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: The Holiday Show puts a holiday spin on our wildly popular production as the alphabet scrambles to decorate a giant Christmas tree. They string lights, hang ornaments, and sing, dance, and tumble into holiday hijinks. With lively songs, clownish comedy, and plenty of audience participation, this merry musical invites kids and grown-ups alike to clap, sing, dance and join in the fun, and discover that every letter and sound has a place in this sparkly celebration.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom: The Holiday Show

Charlotte Martin Theatre

RBAN party at RUST Nightclub celebrating their upcoming collaboration with RUST. DJ lineup: SELMA, Karlitas Way & Fuad. Free entrance until 00:00, 60 DKK 00:00-04:00. 21+.

RBAN – RUST Nightclub

RUST

The Shame Disco. DJ Reform94 throws a youth disco for adults, with the best/worst music from the nineties.

Reform94

Union Scene

A free, family-friendly street dance on the west side of the Stadium of Fire site, featuring a Miner Music DJ spinning tunes from across the decades, held after the fireworks on Independence Day.

Street Dance: Post-Stadium of Fire Celebration

LaVell Edwards Stadium

Closing reading of the Queer Literature Festival Munich with Sophia Merwald, moderated by Franziska Setare Koohestani. Reading from the debut novel "Sperrgut".

Closing Reading: Sophia Merwald "Sperrgut"

Gasteig HP8

We're thrilled to present celebrated mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton in recital, joined by pianist Kathleen Kelly! Don't miss your chance to hear this "once-in-a-generation voice" (Opera) and "opera's nose-studded rock star" (The New York Times) in what is sure to be an unforgettable evening.

Jamie Barton in Recital

A holiday favorite returns! Anita Spritzer returns to celebrate the holidays with humor and plenty of heart. 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.

Anita Spritzer's Gay Apparel

Seattle Opera

Join us for a discussion on El último sueño de Frida y Diego and hear from its two Pulitzer Prize-winning creators, composer Gabriela Lena Frank and librettist Nilo Cruz, along with award-winning Mexican director Lorena Maza. Learn how the different musical inspirations and cultural elements blended to create one of the most stunning productions in opera today.

Opera Talk: The Making of El último sueño de Frida y Diego

El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego) begins during the annual festival El Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead), when the dead can cross over and visit the living. As Mexican muralist Diego Rivera reaches the end of his life, he longs to see his beloved Frida Kahlo again. Although wary of life and its pain, Frida is drawn back to the world of the living by her love for Diego and the desire to paint again.

El último sueño de Frida y Diego

Young Ellen can’t wait for winter. From skating on frozen streams to parties on an icy lake, winter brought friends, family, and fun together, creating memories that never leave her.

In this cozy wintertime play at Seattle Children’s Theatre, based on the award-winning book by Ellen Bryan Obed, Twelve Kinds of Ice sees an adult Ellen sharing stories from her winters in Maine and how she learned that anything is possible with practice and care. Featuring live music on piano and guitar, Ellen looks back at her childhood on the ice, and sees herself reflected back.

Twelve Kinds of Ice

Eve Alvord Theatre

A magical journey to find the ultimate answer

Minli lives in a rundown house in the desolate valley of Fruitless Mountain. In the evenings, her father tells her folktales about dragons, jewels, and the Old Man on the Moon, who knows the answers to all life’s questions. One day, determined to improve her family’s fortunes, Minli sets off to find the Old Man on the Moon to ask for help.

Based on the award-winning novel by Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, the Musical, takes audiences on an extraordinary journey. Along the way, Minli encounters a cast of incredible characters and magical creatures, including a dragon who accompanies her on her quest for the ultimate answer. Can Minli find the Old Man on the Moon and help her family, or will his answer be something quite different?

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, the Musical

Lakmé is Delibes' romantic fantasy of star-crossed lovers, accompanied by lilting, beautiful melodies and emotional arias. This concert presentation features romantic soaring orchestrations, including the famous "Flower Duet" and "Bell Song."

Lakmé in Concert

An astronaut traveling 87,000 light years into space crash-lands on an uncharted planet. There, with only her robotic friend ATA to help, she must survive and find rescue. Can she handle the strange creatures and isolation—not to mention the absurd quirks of her robot companion—and find her way home?

Rocketing to Seattle Children’s Theatre this spring, MAROONED! A Space Comedy is a sci-fi comedy packed with slapstick humor, parodies of classic space adventure tropes, and over-the-top mishaps, turning a life-or-death scenario into a comedic journey. MAROONED! A Space Comedy combines live performance, shadow puppetry, and marionettes in a production that is “Achingly beautiful…” (Maryland Theatre Guide) and “…amusing, charming, delightful and, at times, utterly and completely astonishing” (DC Theatre Scene).

MAROONED! A Space Comedy 

Where are you going to, little brown mouse?

Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood in Seattle Children’s Theatre’s magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler.

THe Gruffalo

Join us for a talk featuring Seattle Opera General & Artistic Director James Robinson, who brings his considerable talent as stage director to bear on this season's La bohème, fresh on the heels of being named Musical America's 2025 Director of the Year.

Opera Talk: James Robinson on La bohème

Young artists in Paris fall in love and fall ill, but never fall in line. Living exclusively for art and love can take a toll on a person, however, and sometimes the price of living the Bohemian life is higher than just owed rent. This timeless tale of idealistic youth and heartbreaking loss has captured hearts for more than a hundred years, and Puccini's iconic score makes it easy to fall in love alongside Mimì and Rodolfo.

La bohème

When our narrator M—a sharp-witted, 20-year-old drag performer—discovers their father, Greg, has been diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer, the whole Murphy family is thrown into chaos. As Greg spends sleepless nights watching nature documentaries, he becomes convinced that he is the Earth—and that both he and the planet are being taken down by their own “Big C’s”: his cancer and climate change.

You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!

Seattle Rep

The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Orchestral Commissions Program: American Composers Orchestra and League of American Orchestras have established two 30-orchestra consortiums, each supporting commissions by six women and nonbinary EarShot alumni. Each composer writes a 6–8 minute orchestral work and develops an educational or community-focused program presented in partnership with each orchestra. In the 2025–26 season, composers have their works performed by nineteen orchestras across the U.S.

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