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SANTA FE OPERA 2016 SEASON FULL
Full details of the SFO health and safety policies and any updates can be found here. Currently, the SFO plans to require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test for all patrons 12 or older. Both season subscriptions and individual performance tickets are now on sale through that portal, or by calling the box office at 50 9 a.m. Promotional art for the Santa Fe Opera/Scottish Opera production of Verdi’s Falstaffįurther information and the full calendar of performances are available at the Santa Fe Opera Web page. The production of this new work will recall the SFO’s productions of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, the opera that has opened all three of the company’s theaters, in 1957, 19. The play and opera were inspired by the true story of a French diplomat who carried on a 20-year affair with a star of the Peking Opera without discovering his lover’s remarkable secret. Butterfly, based on the 1988 Tony Award-winning play by David Henry Hwang, who is also the librettist, with music by Huang Rao. Rounding out the summer season will be SFO’s 18th world premiere, M. Some performance start times at the SFO shift over the summer season, due to changing times of sunset, but due to length, all performances of Tristan und Isolde will begin at 8 p.m. This will be the first piece by Wagner to be presented at the SFO since The Flying Dutchman in 1988, and the only Wagner to be presented other than Dutchman. Next in the summer’s rotation will be the company premiere of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. A co-production with Scottish Opera, Falstaff will be presented in Sir David McVicar’s production, which is set in a wood structure resembling an Elizabethan theater of Shakespeare’s time. That will be followed by Rossini’s Barber of Seville on July 2 and Verdi’s Falstaff on July 16. The first of the operatic favorites to be performed in 2022 will be Bizet’s Carmen, opening the season on July 1. 4.įollowing last year’s reduced season of four productions, the company returns to a full season of five different operas, played in repertoire throughout the summer. Opera Review The 2016 Festival Season at the Santa Fe Opera Review Reviews of ‘La Fanciulla del West,’ ‘Vanessa,’ ‘Romo et Juliette,’ ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Capriccio. The announcement was made by SFO general director Robert K. The festival will feature a world premiere and a company premiere, as well as three operatic favorites. Too adventurous? There’s always “Tosca,” which opens the season.Robert Meya announcing the Santa Fe Opera’s 65th season It will feature respected singer Mariusz Kwiecien as the king. Polish composer Karol Szymanowski’s opera - concerning a shepherd with mystical visions who upsets a royal setting - was first performed in 1926 and had its American premiere six decades later. ‘This one brings a lot more crunch to the plot.”Īnother production, “King Roger,” is interesting because it is so rare. “The version that’s most well-known was cobbled together after Bizet was dead and it doesn’t serve the piece as well,” said general director Charles MacKay. This version is closer to what composer Georges Bizet intended and fills in its murky story line. Santa Fe’s take on the better-known “The Pearl Fishers,” also comes with a twist. But it’s from Gioachino Rossini, the man who gave us “Barber of Seville” and is full of “show-stopping coloratura arias” as the company says. This is a serious love story with a tragic ending and unfamiliar to many operagoers. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĮven the difficult options have their allure, such as “Maometto II,” which opens July 14.
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