ROMÉO ET JULIETTE Intermission Chat with SPEIGHT JENKINS

Seattle Opera’s current General Director, Christina Scheppelmann, chatted with Speight Jenkins, who led the company for three decades, from 1983 through 2014. Speight is a legend in the world of opera, and as you’ll hear in this podcast his inimitable, high-energy, opinionated charm is as powerful as ever. They discuss the great tenor Franco Corelli (this conversation was originally an intermission feature on a re-broadcast of Corelli’s Seattle debut) and Speight tells the story of how he first came to Seattle.