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 opera as seen by a stage director, a psychiatrist, a tenor, and the world of myth.

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 …

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.

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.

The Santa Fe Opera's new La Traviata that opens the 2024 season features aesthetically pleasing scenery and costume designs anchored in 1939 Paris.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.