![]() The company holds to its mission and time-tested programming model: a balanced and varied repertory of new, lesser performed and standard works. Scheduled in the 66th Festival Season are 38 performances including two special Sunday evenings featuring the opera’s singing and technical apprentices in staged Apprentice Scenes on August 13 and 20. ![]() To commemorate its 50th anniversary, Meya confirmed that the Pueblo Opera Cultural Council has engaged filmmaker Beverly Singer of Santa Clara Pueblo to create a documentary about this unique program. The Pueblo Opera Program is guided by an advisory council that includes many past participants and Tribal Elders from around the state. Since 1973, children and families from New Mexico’s 19 Pueblos and three reservations have come to the Santa Fe Opera to take part in a music program founded on the shared value and respect for the power of storytelling. ![]() Meya noted that the 2023 Season marks the 50th anniversary of the company’s Pueblo Opera Program. Monteverdi, Debussy and Dvořák are paired with audience favorites by Puccini and Wagner.” Speaking by video from Stieren Orchestra Hall, Meya expressed delight over the future season, stating, “We will bring five new productions to the stage, each carefully chosen. The piece marks the second operatic collaboration between Spears and Smith, whose Castor and Patience will receive its world premiere at Cincinnati Opera this July. Smith titled The Righteous , which will explore the intersection between religious faith and political power. In 2024, the company has commissioned a new opera by two of America’s most exciting talents, composer Gregory Spears and former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy K. ![]() Opening the opera’s 66th Festival Season will be Puccini’s Tosca and Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, followed by Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Dvořák’s Rusalka, and Monteverdi’s Orfeo with a world premiere orchestration by American composer Nico Muhly. Meya announced today the repertory and casting for the company’s 2023 Season and revealed its 19th world premiere slated for 2024. Santa Fe Opera General Director Robert K. ![]()
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