Here’s what Seattle Opera’s first artistic ambassador aims to do

When opera singer Kenneth Kellogg speaks, you listen. You can’t help it. It’s startlingly similar to what happens when he stands on opera stages — all 6 feet, 5 inches of him — and bellows in his sonorous bass-baritone; you are irrevocably drawn in. This quality is part of what landed him the role as Seattle Opera’s first-ever artistic ambassador. “When you speak to him, you know exactly what it is,” said Dennis Robinson Jr., Seattle Opera’s director of programs and partnerships, who will be working directly with Kellogg in...