Nearly 70 years old, the Santa Fe Opera and its summer season draw singers, directors, designers, conductors and apprentices from across the globe.
Category: Santa Fe Opera
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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.
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Richard Gaddes, Opera Impresario Who Spotted Young Talent, Dies at 81
As leader of opera companies in Santa Fe and St. Louis, he welcomed new works as well as new artists.
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Seeing ‘L’Orfeo’ in Santa Fe
Among the company’s annual summer offerings, Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo,” from 1607 but newly reorchestrated and imaginatively staged, stands out.
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Nico Muhly Modernizes Monteverdi With ‘Irreverent Veneration’
Muhly has reorchestrated Monteverdi’s foundational “L’Orfeo” for a new production at Santa Fe Opera.
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Lewis Spratlan, Who Took Winding Route to Music Pulitzer, Dies at 82
The New York Times – Music:His opera sat unproduced for decades. Then a piece of it garnered one of the field’s top prizes. Then it sat some more.