Santa Fe Opera

Review: ‘The Righteous’ Brings Stirring Prayer to Santa Fe Opera

Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s new work about an ambitious minister’s rise in the 1980s is that rarity in contemporary music: an original story.

By Zachary Woolfe

As leader of opera companies in Santa Fe and St. Louis, he welcomed new works as well as new artists.

By Adam Nossiter

Among the company’s annual summer offerings, Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo,” from 1607 but newly reorchestrated and imaginatively staged, stands out.

By Joshua Barone

Muhly has reorchestrated Monteverdi’s foundational “L’Orfeo” for a new production at Santa Fe Opera.

By David Allen