SANTA FE OPERA SEASON!

One of the attractions of Santa Fe is the famous Santa Fe Opera.  Its main theatre is an open-air construction, and requires the regular SFO performing season to be in the summer, a "Festival Season."  Each year, five operas are produced and performed several times in July and August.

The Santa Fe Opera's Crosby Theater

Standing room tickets are available at the box office for $10, affordable even for college students and librarians!

This years productions include operas written in three centuries, from 1791 to 1978:

The Magic Flute

by Mozart, written in 1791

The Tales of Hoffman
by Offenbach, written about 1880

Madame Butterfly

Puccini, 1904

Albert Herring

Britten, 1947

and
Life is a Dream

Lewis Spratlan, 1978

To enhance your experience at the opera, stop by Fogelson Library and visit our Santa Fe Opera display near the main entrance.  We have printed supplemental material for all of this season's operas, and recordings and libretti for the older ones.

For instance, we have the 1635 play, La vida es sueño, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca in the original Spanish and in English translation, as well as the short story by Guy de Maupassant, "Mme Husson's Rosebush" (or "An Enthusiast"), that was the literary source of Albert Herring.

And for those who can't shake the beautiful arias by Cio-Cio-San, you can borrow the score for Madame Butterfly in order to learn it for singing in the car.  Or invite a friend over for duets and play around with the piano reduction for the overture to The Magic Flute!

And if for nothing else, come by and pick up a copy of the SFO program or a performance calendar.  (You can even keep those!)

For more information, visit the SFO website at: http://santafeopera.org/

Become a fan of the Opera on Facebook, and you may get a special ticket discount--I did! facebook.com/santafeopera

All images this posting date, copyright The Santa Fe Opera, 2010.