Tacoma Opera

Tacoma Opera is a professional opera company, founded in 1968, that engages artists and audiences from around the world to present bold and courageous productions of the great works of the repertoire on the grand stage of the Pantages Theater. Each season brings together principal artists, conductors, and directors from across the country and around the world, and it draws audiences who travel from throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Since 2022, the company has pursued an expansive and fearless artistic vision. It has undertaken Wagner's complete Ring cycle, a project few American companies ever attempt, beginning with Das Rheingold in 2025 and continuing with Die Walküre on October 9 and 11, 2026. Alongside the Ring, Tacoma Opera has built a reputation for bold, historically engaged new work. In 2023 it presented the world premiere of Tacoma Method, an opera by composer Gregory Youtz and poet and librettist Zhang Er that retells the violent expulsion of Tacoma's Chinese residents on November 3, 1885, a chapter of Washington history long erased from public memory. The company has also reimagined the classics, with a new staging of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro set in the jazz era of the Harlem Renaissance.

Tacoma Opera stages the art form's monumental works with the conviction they demand, and it has become one of the most ambitious opera presenters on the West Coast.

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