Where Seattle Opera And Ballet Share A Glass Hall
Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera share a 2,900-seat hall at Seattle Center, with a glass lobby and clear sightlines.
🎭 On the bill
Marion Oliver McCaw Hall stands at Seattle Center, a glass-fronted theater that serves as the shared home of Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Opera. Its 2,900-seat auditorium runs more than 100 performances a year across opera, dance, and touring theater.
The room is built for clarity, with sound and sightlines that hold up from the front rows to the top balcony. The glass lobby opens onto Seattle Center, a hanging kinetic sculpture turns overhead, and concessions sit on every floor for the intermission crowd.
Programming shifts from full-scale opera to contemporary ballet within the same week, and the address, 321 Mercer Street, places it steps from the Space Needle. Evening curtains draw a dressed-up crowd across the plaza.
