Lorenzo accepted and made the switch.īut teaching opera to those who already appreciated it wasn’t enough for Lorenzo he wanted to take his passion one step further.
Ten years later, when the Seattle Opera decided to launch an education department, general director Speight Jenkins invited him to be the director of education. Lorenzo became a humanities teacher at Kennedy High School in Burien in 1982, and he took his students on field trips to the opera every year. “We’re here to help them figure out how to turn this into a career.”Īfter his days as an opera-hungry teenager, the Bellingham native studied philosophy, Latin, and Greek at Gonzaga University. “We’re here to teach these artists how to do opera thoughtfully, how to behave in the arts world, be good colleagues, show up on time, and be there 100 percent,” Lorenzo says.
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