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. 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. Robert Meya announcing the Santa Fe Opera’s 65th season
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