Speight Jenkins

Speight Jenkins is General Director of the Seattle Opera. After seventeen years in this position, Mr. Jenkins has seen his company attain international recognition. His extensive knowledge of opera repertoire is demonstrated by frequent appearances on Texaco’s “Opera Quiz” on the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. Personally acquainted with the best singers of our time, many of them active in art song performance, Mr. Jenkins stands as one of the most knowledgeable people in the world of classical vocal performance.