Santa Fe – Seen and Heard International

At Santa Fe, Quinn Kelsey stars in an energetic Falstaff, and an uneven cast and dire staging undermines Tristan

18/10/202209/08/2022 by Harvey Steiman

United States Santa Fe Opera 2022 [3]: (HS)

Falsaff (Quinn Kelsey) and Alice Ford (Alexandra LoBianco) © Curtis Brown/Santa Fe Opera

A lurid tale told deftly in M. Butterfly, a new opera from Huang Ruo based on David Henry Hwang’s play

18/10/202205/08/2022 by Harvey Steiman

United States Santa Fe Opera 2022 [2] – Huang Ruo, M. Butterfly: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Santa Fe Opera / Carolyn Kuan (conductor). The Crosby Theater, Santa Fe, 3.8.2022. (HS)

Song Liling (Kangmin Justin Kim) and René Gallimard (Mark Stone) © Curtis Brown/Santa Fe Opera

A sidesplitting Barber of Seville outshines a confusingly dull Carmen in Santa Fe

18/10/202205/08/2022 by Harvey Steiman

United States Santa Fe Opera 2022 [1]: (HS)

Michael Fabiano (Don José) and Isabel Leonard (Carmen) © Curtis Brown/Santa Fe Opera

The Lord of the Cries is Corigliano’s new thriller which delivers a punch at Santa Fe Opera

01/10/202114/08/2021 by Harvey Steiman

United States John Corigliano, The Lord of Cries: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Santa Fe Opera / Johannes Debus (conductor). Crosby Theater, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 11.8.2021. (HS)

Anthony Roth Costanzo (Dionysus), Leah Brzyski (Agave), Megan Moore
(Ino) and Rachel Blaustein (Autonoe) (c) Curtis Brown

Travelogue from the Santa Fe Opera Festival as it Premieres Poul Ruders’s The Thirteenth Child

21/08/201931/07/2019 by Casey Creel

United States Poul Ruders, The Thirteenth Child: Soloists and Chorus of the Santa Fe Opera / Paul Daniel (conductor), Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico, 27.7.2019. (CCr)

Santa Fe Opera’s Triumphant Fidelio

22/07/201421/07/2014 by Rafael De Acha

United States Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Harry Bicket (conductor), Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 12.7.2014 (RDA)