The new season will also feature productions of Strauss's Die Fledermaus, with Jane Eaglen and Richard Berkeley-Steele in the lead roles; Mozart's CosÐ fan tutte, in Jonathan Miller's update, which has played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Lincoln Center Festival, with Richard Stilwell as Don Alfonso and Kimberly Barber as Despina; and a new production of Verdi's Macbeth, designed by Robert Israel and with Andrea Gruber and Gordon Hawkins starring.

The company also announced the replacement of a Friday night performance with a second series of Sunday afternoon performances.

Seattle Opera usually programs five operas per season rather than four, but the company's Ring cycle runs through August, when the season usually begins. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the company's three cycles are sold out, with a closed waiting list of 200.