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  Seattle Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seattle Center is a fairground, park and arts and entertainment center in Seattle, Washington, on the site used in 1962 by the Century 21 Exposition.
The annual Northwest Folklife, Bite of Seattle, Seattle International Children's Festival and Bumbershoot festivals and the many smaller festivals associated with Festál at Seattle Center.
McCaw Hall, home of the Seattle Opera and shared as a performance space with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, whose ballet school is adjacent.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seattle_Center   (329 words)

  
 Opera Volunteers International - Background of OVI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Opera Guilds International's purpose was to facilitate the sharing of information and resources by opera volunteer groups from various cities.
Opera Guilds International was run by a completely volunteer board of directors, consisting of committee chairs and volunteer workers who did all of the work of the organization.
The OGI office was moved to the OPERA America headquarters Washington, D.C., United States, and the two organizations began a series of cooperative efforts in which OPERA America offered expertise to the staff members of professional opera companies, and OGI offered assistance and guidance to the volunteers associated with those same companies.
www.operavol.org /background.htm   (591 words)

  
 Travelocity.com: Destination Guides: Seattle
While the Seattle Symphony performs in downtown's Benaroya Hall, the main venues for the performing arts in Seattle are primarily clustered in Seattle Center, the special events complex that was built for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.
Seattle also has two restored historic theaters that are as much a part of a performance as what happens onstage.
Summer is a time of outdoor festivals and performance series in Seattle, and should you be in town during the sunny months, you'll have a wide variety of alfresco performances from which to choose.
dest.travelocity.com /DestGuides/0,1840,AOLCOM|4882|||0032021114|F|N,00.html   (2291 words)

  
 Mayor's Office of Film & Music: Seattle Festivals & Events
Seattle Pro Musica, winner of the Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, is a critically acclaimed choral ensemble, performing under the direction of conductor and artistic director Karen P. Thomas.
Seattle Men's Chorus is the largest community chorus in America and the largest gay men's chorus in the world.
Founded in 1903, the Seattle Symphony is one of the oldest and largest cultural institutions in the Pacific Northwest.
www.ci.seattle.wa.us /music/festivals.htm   (1867 words)

  
 OPERA America — The National Service Organization for Opera
OPERA America 's annual conference is the largest gathering of opera professionals in the world, with more than 500 attendees expected from around the globe.
Seattle is a city at the center of new technologies.
Seattle, in addition to being home to Seattle Opera, is home to eleven professional theater companies, Seattle Public Library, winning professional sports teams, and five Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Starbucks—a stimulating setting for the five days of seminars and sessions.
www.operaamerica.org /pressroom/conf31606.html   (885 words)

  
 Seattle's Rainbow Road to Opera
Seattle Opera's Speight Jenkins is surely the most enthusiastic General Director anywhere in the opera world.
So, when the newly renovated opera house re-opened on August 2 with a performance of Parsifal, it came as no surprise to see a Rheingold rainbow in the form of a light show playing on the metal arches and scrims that project from the façade.
When he also realized that, apart from New York's Metropolitan Opera, no other North American house was mounting a full Ring Cycle, he took a very courageous leap and, to the astonishment of the opera establishment, launched the complete Ring of the Nibelungen in his small, geographically remote company.
www.scena.org /columns/reviews/030813-JG-seattle.html   (436 words)

  
 The News Tribune (Lite) - Seattle Opera titan tamed ‘Ring’   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Glynn Ross, the Seattle Opera founding director who began a cherished tradition by producing Richard Wagner’s “Ring” cycle in Seattle when no one thought it was possible, died Thursday of complications from a stroke.
Seattle Opera has done 32 cycles, and is on the verge of another three, which have been sold out for nine months, beginning Aug. 7.
He founded the opera department at the New England Conservatory, and after serving in the U.S. Army during World War II in Naples, Italy, he stayed on as stage director at the Teatro San Carlo.
www.thenewstribune.com /news/local/v-lite/story/5040329p-4596810c.html   (322 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Local News: Will Seattle Opera balance books? It's too close to call
The opera isn't over until the accountants sing — and at yesterday's annual meeting, that tune went right down to the wire as Seattle Opera administrators struggled to balance the hefty, $20.7 million 2003-04 budget.
At the annual meeting, held at Seattle Opera's new home in McCaw Hall with Chairman William Gerberding and President John Nesholm presiding, company trustees and opera supporters heard that the fiscal year's finances are still too close to call.
The city of Seattle, Seattle City Council and Seattle Center director Virginia Anderson were recognized at the meeting for their roles in funding and building McCaw Hall.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2001973625_opera07.html   (361 words)

  
 Visible Music (Seattle Weekly)
Seattle Chamber Players broke with traditional recital rules last spring to stage two first-rate theatrical presentations: Piazzolla's earthy "tango opera" Maria de Buenos Aires and (in its premiere) Paul Dresher's Kafkaesque one-singer fable, The Tyrant.
In composer Michael Katell and choreographer Alex Martin's collaboration, singers interact with the dancers, the dancers speak and sing, and the storytelling thread flows from dialogue to narration to aria to mime to abstract movement with beautifully crafted fluency.
As in his previous operas, Garrett Fisher explores the theme of individuals in conflict with implacable forces (religion, fate, or the state) in Stargazer, a meditation on Galileo's clash with the church (libretto by Thom Schramm).
www.seattleweekly.com /arts/0603/opera.php   (821 words)

  
 classical music - andante - seattle opera revives daniel catán's 1996 florencia en el amazonas
Co-commissioned by Houston Grand Opera, the Los Angeles Opera and Seattle in the mid-1990s, the opera fared much better in local waters than in Houston or Los Angeles, where it was patronized by critics.
Opera of the past 100 years is not the wasteland some claim it to be.
For those waiting for Seattle Opera to commission an opera will have to wait until the 2008–09 season, when the company is planning the premiere of such a work.
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25257   (647 words)

  
 Opera World: Distance Learning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Each course is taught by experts in the opera field, and features content that focuses on historical background, musical styles, literary sources, and dramatic structure.
If you are an opera company interested in providing this unique opportunity for your patrons for a nominal fee, please email operaworld@operaamerica.org.
When Giuseppe Verdi sat down to write an opera based on Shakespeare’s “Scottish play,” he had no idea that he would be finding his own voice as an artist and finding the confidence to transform the centuries-old tradition of Italian bel canto opera.
www.operaworld.com /prompter/distance.shtml   (778 words)

  
 Hooked on opera
As director of education, he is charged with organizing the Seattle Opera's Young Artists Program, one of the most highly regarded singer-training programs in the country.
Ten years later, when the Seattle Opera decided to launch an education department, general director Speight Jenkins invited him to be the director of education.
From New York's Metropolitan Opera to Italy's Teatro alla Scala, Seattle Opera's training is regarded as one of the most comprehensive young-artist programs in the industry.
www.sunset.com /sunset/travel/article/0,20633,1023939~1023909,00.html   (933 words)

  
 Mayor's Office of Film & Music: Seattle Music History
Seattle Opera’s summer presentations have been acclaimed often and widely as among the Pacific Northwest’s premier cultural events.
Seattle Opera’s 2001 presentation of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen was the most successful production in the company’s history, selling out all 36,000 seats a full year in advance of opening.
The repetition established Seattle Opera worldwide as a Ring center; it did more: it inculcated into the Seattle opera public a liking for Wagner’s works and a familiarity with them that is probably still greater per capita than in any city outside Germany.
www.seattle.gov /music/history/classical.htm   (1889 words)

  
 Season opera Resources at World Wide Arts Resources
Seattle Opera: The Marriage of Figaro Seattle Opera: The Marriage of Figaro October 18, 19 mat, 22, 24, 25, 29, 31, November 1, 1997 The Marriage of Figaro is sponsored by Corporate Council for the Arts.
Seattle Opera: The Elixir of Love Seattle Opera: The Elixir of Love January 10, 11 mat, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 1998 The Elixir of Love is sponsored by PONCHO.
Opera Pacific - Information Opera Pacific - Information Opera Pacific, now in its 11th season at the state-of-the-art Orange County Performing Arts Center, is currently ranked as the 12th largest opera company in the United States.
wwar.com /opera/auto/Season2.html   (1453 words)

  
 Seattle
Visit Seattle, the 'Emerald City', and walk along the sparkling waterfront or tour the gems of yesterday in historic Pioneer Square.
The Seattle Art Museum can also be found in the heart of downtown.
McCaw Hall, also at the Seattle Center, is home to Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera.
www.amtrakcascades.com /Seattle.aspx   (738 words)

  
 ‘Shining Light’ of Seattle Opera Glynn Ross dies aged 90 | Sound Generator
He was one of the founders of OPERA America, the group of American opera companies that has vast influence today not only in America but in the whole world of opera.
After his years in Seattle, during which he established an opera tradition in the Northwest, he had a distinguished career in Arizona in which he did what he did here: started in a place with very little opera background, made opera important, and even, again, mounted a Ring.
In 1975, Ross won international acclaim when Seattle Opera became the first company in the United States to produce Wagner's Ring cycle in German and English and in the way the composer intended (all four operas in sequence within a week in a "festival" setting).
www.soundgenerator.com /news/index.cfm?articleid=5824   (1016 words)

  
 Seattle Live Music Scene - Rock, Jazz, R&B, Symphony, Opera, And More
Orchestra Seattle and Seattle Chamber Singers - Performances take place in several of Seattle's premier concert facilities: the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Meany Hall on the University of Washington campus, and Town Hall.
The Seattle Symphony is one of the world's most recorded orchestras, represented on more than 80 compact discs and recognized with 10 Grammy nominations.
Seattle Pro Musica - Seattle Pro Musica is widely considered to be one of the finest ensembles in the Pacific Northwest, with a repertoire ranging from Medieval chant through the works of living composers.
www.therainiervalley.com /seattle_music_scene.html   (571 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Seattle Opera's "Rigoletto" fast-forwards to fascist Italy
Seattle Opera does the vast majority of its productions "in period," in the time and place specified by the composer and the librettist.
So when the news came that the company's new "Rigoletto" was to be transposed to Mussolini's Italy, opera fans might be forgiven for doing a bit of head-scratching.
Seattle Opera's scenic department figured out how to make temporary updates (such as attaching electric lines and period posters to the walls); Dahlstrom also repositioned walls and curtains that allowed for a different look.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002056766_opera10.html   (711 words)

  
 Seattlest
Wrote letter to Seattle Times, we did, pointing out that the vibrio bacterium is effectively neutralized in a solution of 12 percent alcohol: in other words, a glass of white wine.
It's been a rough couple of months here in the Emerald City, and now that the shit stain of a month that was July is coming to an end, maybe with it so will our run of heart breaking news.
Besides all the references to Seattle landmarks (I-5, Burien, the local PugetCare HMO), it features a good deal of educational lecturing, input from a wide variety of perspectives, and an agonizing inability to get anything done in a timely fashion.
www.seattlest.com   (2813 words)

  
 Opera News > The Met Opera Guild
Wolf, a Holocaust refugee, moved to Seattle in 1969 at the invitation of Seattle Opera's founding general director Glynn Ross and conductor Henry Holt.
Wolf was born in Hamburg, Germany and studied with composer Heinrich Schenker at the University of Vienna.
At the time of his death by a massive heart attack, he was reportedly still working at Seattle Opera and was planning another concert series of "Neglected Masterpieces of Operetta" for the fall.
www.metoperafamily.org /operanews/news/pressrelease.aspx?id=953   (325 words)

  
 Welcome to the Puget Sound School of Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Opera House at Seattle Center will be renovated by 2003 to become Marion Oliver McCaw Hall.
2943 25th Avenue West, Seattle, WA The Seattle Violin Virtuosi present a wide diversity of styles from early Baroque through Classical and Romantic music to Modern masterpieces including Folk and Jazz styles, in a blend of formal and intimate presentations.
Seattle Center, Seattle, WA Seattle's latest rock museum featuring Jimi Hendrix.
www.ups.edu /music/artsmus.htm   (380 words)

  
 Seattle's scintillating new opera hall is rave-worthy / But production of 'Parsifal' is not in the same league
Faced with a seismically unsound opera house that would have required a $99 million outlay just to bring up to code, Jenkins instead chose to go whole hog.
The interior of the hall is smaller and more intimate, with the side walls brought in 15 feet on each side and the seating capacity reduced from 3,017 to 2,890.
It's the only major Wagner opera that had never been staged by a company that has made Wagner its stock-in-trade, and it was written to consecrate the composer's theater-cum-temple in Bayreuth, Germany.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/08/05/DD212244.DTL   (967 words)

  
 Seattle Center- Seattle, WA - VirtualTourist.com
In addition, Seattle Center is home to many festivals showcasing everything from food to music including all things in between.
Other parts of the Seattle Center are the Key Arena (where sports and productions take place), the EMP (Experience Music Project), the Pacific Science Center (a hands-on science museum, great for kids), the Pacific Science Center IMAX, the International Fountain (another neat place for kids) and the beginning of the monorail.
Seattle Center is home to Seattle's most famous land mark that being the Space Needle however there is a lot more there than just the space needle.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/North_America/United_States_of_America/Washington_State/Seattle-894670/Things_To_Do-Seattle-Seattle_Center-BR-1.html   (1486 words)

  
 komo news | Seattle Opera Pitching In To Fix Monorail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Seattle Opera and its set department are known all over the world.
Their massive studio makes sets for opera companies across the country, but their latest production will not be used by performers, but by you and me.
The man accused in the Seattle Jewish Federation shootings was charged Wednesday with nine felony counts, including aggravated first-degree murder, making it eligible for the death penalty.
komotv.com /news/story.asp?ID=43532   (514 words)

  
 Ellaina Lewis
She studied at the Aspen Opera Theater Center, the University of Washington, Iowa State University and at the Astoria Music Festival and Academy.
Lewis has performed the Seattle Opera Guild’s previews annually since she was first engaged by the Guild to portray the Druid priestess in scenes from Norma in 2003.
She toured with N.O.I.S.E., Northwest Opera in Schools Etcetera, as Pamina in The Magic Flute, Nicklausse in the doll act from The Tales of Hoffmann and as Gertrude in Hansel and Gretel.
www.operasingersinseattle.com /EllainaLewis   (550 words)

  
 Seattle Opera:  Der Freischütz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
It was at their bidding that I made the trek to Seattle.
The Mcdgll's emerged from their wing of the chateau gowned and coiffed with Karen's daughter in tow (in what I might say was the most eye-popping, head turning dress I've seen since the Academy Award presentation).
The unit set was a steeply raked wooden platform with steps on the right and left with the wood flooring carried out onto the stage proper.
operajamboree.ragbert.com /terri9.html   (1182 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay: Former Civic Auditorium and Seattle Center Opera House opens as the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall on June ...
McCaw Hall is the latest incarnation of what was once Seattle’s Civic Auditorium (1928), which was then gutted and rebuilt as the Seattle Center Opera House for the World’s Fair in 1962.
On November 2, 1999, Seattle voters approved Proposition One bonds that included $38 million dedicated to the refurbishment of the Opera House, and construction began on January 17, 2002.
The Opera House, although adequate for ballet and opera acoustics, had many weak spots in certain seating areas, and did not work well for symphonies performing on the stage.
www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=4230   (666 words)

  
 Eastern Washington University
Eastern Washington University and the National Association of Teachers of Singing present Seattle Opera’s 2004-05 Young Artists in a program of arias, duets and ensembles from favorite operas on Friday, Nov. 12.
The Seattle Opera Young Artists will present two concerts with narration – at noon in the EWU Music Building Recital Hall on Eastern’s campus in Cheney and again at 7 p.m.
Now in its seventh year, the program provides instruction for young singers in all aspects of a career in opera – complete roles, acting skills, languages and diction, stage movement and fight choreography, theatre arts and career guidance.
www.ewu.edu /x16111.xml   (227 words)

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