Speight Jenkins Jr. (born January 31, 1937) is a classical music critic and music administrator. He was the general director of Seattle Opera from 1983 to 2014.
Seattle Opera from 1983 to 2014. Jenkins, a native of Dallas, Texas, is the son of SpeightJenkins Sr. and Sara Baird Jenkins. His parents took him to his...
the world, and Seattle appeared to be a serious rival to Bayreuth. SpeightJenkins was appointed General Director in 1983, and immediately set about creating...
footballer Wilton Speight (born 1994), American college football player SpeightJenkins (born 1937), American opera manager Speight's, a New Zealand brewery...
previously for the Washington National Opera. In another prominent example, SpeightJenkins served as the general director of the Seattle Opera for over three...
the opera in stereo via radio as well. Hosts included Tony Randall, SpeightJenkins, Alexander Scourby, Joanne Woodward, F. Murray Abraham, and Garrick...
particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire. Describing his voice, SpeightJenkins, general director of the Seattle Opera, said: "There are other singers...
(March 11, 1975). "Ragtime sells out symphony". The Boston Globe. SpeightJenkins (May 5, 1974). "Joplin's Red Back Book at Alice Tully Hall". The New...
The Times, 12 May 2006 "What Are the Limits of Stage Direction?" by SpeightJenkins, OperaSleuth, 14 July 2014 A review on a Philadelphia production of...
2011. His introduction to the role came from a 2008 invitation by SpeightJenkins to understudy the part for Siegfried and Götterdämmerung at the Seattle...
Opera's first production of Wagner's The Ring Cycle under director SpeightJenkins, portraying Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre and Waltraute/Second...
curator of prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1916–46), author SpeightJenkins (1961), arts administrator, general director of the Seattle Opera (1983–)...
Gringyte 2015 Festival Bregenzer Festspiele 2015 Lifetime Achievement SpeightJenkins 2015 Newcomer Lotte de Beer 2015 New Production Mussorgsky: Khovanskygate...
Hughes bass-baritone Marilyn Horne, Mary Lou Falcone, Barbara Hocher, SpeightJenkins, Robert White 2007 Nadine Sierra soprano Karen Kyung-Eun Na Marilyn...
profile within this repertoire was Seattle Opera under the direction of SpeightJenkins. Blackwell first worked with the company in 1990 in the role of Marie...
October 2017. Bargreen, Melinda (6 May 2014). "‘Tales of Hoffmann’: SpeightJenkins goes out on a high note". Seattle Times. Retrieved 11 October 2017...
the Nibelung, being declared by the Seattle Opera General Director SpeightJenkins as "the world's greatest living 'Alberich.'" He died at the age of...
Troyanos ... the most aristocratic Octavian at the Met in years," wrote SpeightJenkins in a review of the Rosenkavalier in the New York Post. "She has a large...
Jellinek, music historian and translator William Weaver, opera critic SpeightJenkins, opera historian Alan Wagner, playwright Terrence McNally, and classics...
liveliest and most committed solo of the evening." In September 1981, SpeightJenkins wrote in Record World, New York, about the recording of Das Rheingold...
singable, pacing was varied and orchestration thoroughly professional." SpeightJenkins, writing in Musical America, stressed similar points. He wrote: "Moreno...
November 2017. Speight 1900, p. 374. Speight 1900, p. 369. Yorkshire Dales, p. 32. Automobile Association/Ordnance Survey ISBN 0-86145-233-X Speight 1900, p...
surgeon position, which Thack promised to Gallinger. David Fierro as Jacob Speight: Health department inspector. Although rude and abrasive, he works closely...
Carla Gugino, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Moon Bloodgood, Courtney Gains, Lester Speight, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Tom Berenger, Mike Epps, Xander Berkeley, Matt...
Randy Oglesby, Barry Del Sherman, Lyman Ward, Anthony Crivello, Richard Speight Jr., Sharon Tay, Christine Devine, Mark Thompson, Ernie Anastos, Rance...
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