On this episode of the Central City Opera Podcast, Dan Wallace Miller talks about Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Holocaust anthology opera Two Remain with star Curt Olds.

From the Seattle Opera Blog.

Our upcoming concert of Die Walküre will be directed by an artist raised on the Wagnerian tradition at Seattle Opera. In this blog post, stage director Dan Wallace Miller shares more about his love for all-things Ring. Fresh off his acclaimed presentation of Seattle Opera's streaming Tosca ('21), Miller returns to direct a concert version of the Ring cycle's most popular opera.

On this episode of the Central City Opera Podcast, the director of this summer's production of Purcell's DIDO AND AENEAS, Dan Wallace Miller, talks about ALL the things - his outdoor, updated production in the Central City Opera Garden, his background in film and how he brings that into opera, how his love of Wagner and all things music drama started at the very young age of four, how he approaches older works to make them new again for today's audiences, his vision and hope for the future of opera - and so much more. You'll definitely want to check out the show notes page for this episode - it is chock full of goodies.

Join stage director Dan Wallace Miller as he chats with Seattle Opera Community Engagement Manager Alex Minami about our final production of this season, Tosca.

As someone who’s both disarmingly zany and down-to-Earth all at once, Dan Wallace Miller brings a presence to opera that’s hard to ignore. From days of running his own company Vespertine Opera Theater, to creating Il trovatore (‘19) and our immersive opera, The Combat (‘17), the stage director possesses a distinct power: helping newcomers (including millennials and Gen Z) realize that they too, are enamored with this art form. And with Miller’s inspired take on Tosca, he shows how this centuries-old art form is as seductive and as electrifying as it ever was.

There's no happy ending here.

Georges Bizet's "Carmen" tells a lust-filled yet dark love story peppered by possession, betrayal and, ultimately, murder.

But it's more than just a tragic tale. It's a vibrant examination of domestic violence that resonates just as much with audiences today, if not more so, than it first did when it was penned in the late 1870s.

Not everyone can call themselves a homegrown Seattle Opera artist. But for Stage Director Dan Wallace Miller, the roots of his artistry go deep in the Wagnerian tradition of Seattle Opera. For Miller, the seed of directing was planted at age 4 by opera-loving parents during his first Ring cycle. Later, it was cultivated by legendary Seattle Opera director/singer Peter Kazaras, who became Miller’s mentor and teacher. Ultimately, Miller went on to create his own opera company, Vespertine Opera Theater. He makes his official Seattle Opera directing debut now with The Combat, a production which The Stranger called “a profound experience of theater” created by a “visionary director.”