Opera Southwest launches its 2024-2025 season with an al fresco staging of the rarely performed Matilde at the Albuquerque Museum amphitheater.
The Santa Fe Opera's program of opera scenes performed and designed by its apprentices includes selections from Falstaff, Eugene Onegin, Il Trovatore, La Rondine, The Cunning Little Vixen, and Cinderella.
`The Elixir of Love' is potent and enchanting
It's updated, funny and well-performed, offering an appealing way of bringing opera first-timers or children on board.
The opera as seen by a stage director, a psychiatrist, a tenor, and the world of myth.
'The Elixir of Love' 101
Long story short: A phony love potion leads to genuine romance between a lowly farmhand and the wealthy young landowner he works for.
Four featured roles add flavor to the Santa Fe Opera’s sleekly opulent production.
Gaetano Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love is in part a parody of the Tristan and Isolde legend, a 12th-century Celtic romance most familiar today in the operatic version …
'Der Rosenkavalier' 101
Long Story Short: A neglected, 30-something trophy wife knows the clock is ticking on her passionate affair with a 17-year-old nobleman.
The Santa Fe Opera's newest world premiere, The Righteous, with music by Gregory Spears and a text by Tracy K. Smith, explores the intersection of political power and religious faith.
Spoiler for an ancient opera
Mozart didn't develop a singular reputation for nothing, and in Don Giovanni, the composer's many gifts for humor and beautiful music are on full display.
'The Righteous' 101
The world premiere of The Righteous at the Santa Fe Opera explores the intersection of faith and political power during the televangelism boom of the 1980s.
This may be the most propulsive La Traviata you’ll ever see and hear, reviewer Mark Tiarks says, with a standout performance from Mané Galoyan in the title role.
The Santa Fe Opera's new La Traviata that opens the 2024 season features aesthetically pleasing scenery and costume designs anchored in 1939 Paris.
'La Traviata' 101
Here's a handy user's guide to get up to speed on La Traviata, the opening night production in the Santa Fe Opera's 2024 season.
'Don Giovanni' 101
You'll like composer Wolfgang Amadè Mozart's “dramma giocoso” if you like seeing a man who thoughtlessly seduced thousands of women without even buying them dinner dragged to hell.
In addition to La Traviata and Don Giovanni, the Santa Fe Opera's 2024 season will include Der Rosenkavalier, The Elixir of Love, and a world premiere, The Righteous.
The Santa Fe Opera's 2025 season will feature standard-repertory operas by Puccini, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Benjamin Britten.
95 years of opera classics in classic cartoons
Opera has been featured (and made fun of) in cartoons for 95 years, from Mickey Mouse's The Opry House in 1929 to many episodes of The Simpsons today.
The composer penned an opera based on the memoir of Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, and he had to re-orchestrate it to fit on the stage for Opera Southwest.
A time for X
The next Met Live in HD screening at the Lensic is of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, in a highly acclaimed production of a telling-truth-to-power opera by Anthony Davis about the controversial activist who was assassinated in 1965.
Hair raiser
Bluebeard's Castle, one of the scariest operas ever written, receives its first New Mexico performances just in time for Halloween, courtesy of Albuquerque's Opera Southwest. The production features scenery and projections created by two veteran Meow Wolf designers and a 63-person onstage orchestra.
Soprano Cecilia Violetta López doesn't have a traditional opera background, but she says her uncommon path has enriched her appreciation of the music.
An elite group of talented hopefuls find their voices at the Santa Fe Opera
The oldest regularly performed opera in the repertory receives a new high-tech production at the Santa Fe Opera, directed by MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant winner Yuval Sharon and starring famed tenor Rolando Villazón in the title role.
Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo dates from 1607 — it’s the oldest regularly performed opera and one that retains astonishing emotional impact and contains exceptionally sophisticated music. This overview includes a synopsis of the plot, background information on the composer, and much more useful information for Santa Fe Opera goers.
An acclaimed veteran stage director, Sir David Pountney, and a fast-rising young conductor, Lidiya Yankovskya, are teaming up for Antonin Dvorak's Rusalka, the fourth production of the Santa Fe Opera's season.
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