Tag: Santa Fe Opera
Composer Jennifer Higdon Lives in the Air of Ideas
"I was thinking about the breathing thing. This is a much calmer sort of experience. It's also a challenge for me because normally I write a lot of fast notes. "
Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson: A War of Attrition
"The inherent understanding of genius, stifled genius, unrecognized genius, not given the support and the nourishment that it deserves and having to find its own way. I understand that completely."
Best Bets Still Available: August 2022
A list of our favorite Best Bets that are still available as of August 1st
Top 10 of 2021
Happy New Year to everyone. Very soon we'll begin new interviews and highlights for 2022. But before we do, here is my list of...
Sara Jakubiak Conjures Her Second Tatyana in “Eugene Onegin”
"I do believe that there is still beauty and there is beauty we don't even know about yet from this pandemic...it's only just creeping out of the ground right now."
Lucas Meachem Speaking Honestly About Eugene Onegin
"I think people can see in art a reflection of themselves and of the moment that we live in. I think people will see in Onegin the difficulties we've been through in the last sixteen months."
Anthony Roth Costanzo Defines His Place in Opera
"I think what Dionysus and Dracula both try and show through being the stranger and the outsider is that we are all the same basically. "
Iestyn Davies Learns from the Past to Assure His Future
"The moment you hear this music it's gone. Nobody else will ever hear it again in this version. That's what's really special."
Conductor Harry Bicket On the Perfect Opera
"Even Verdi when he was writing his Shakespeare operas he didn't dare actually take on Shakespeare's text. Britten is one of the few people in history that actually set Shakespeare's text and all but one sentence is the original Shakespeare."
Top Ten Best Bets: June 18th – June 21st
Leading this week's list are two concerts by jazz sensation Jazzmeia Horn