The company is currently reviewing all additional activities including Prelude Talks, Preview Dinners, Shuttles, Backstage Tours and Family Nights, to determine what can be offered while still ensuring safety. Meya noted, “We anticipate requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test for entry to The Crosby Theatre.” It is expected that all audience members will be required to wear a mask. The Santa Fe Opera will continue its commitment to protecting the health and safety of its staff, artists and audiences. There will be humor, tragedy, boundless tales of love and something entirely new. Three of our five featured productions were originally scheduled for 2020, so this coming season will be a healing of sorts for the lost year of the pandemic. Says Meya, “I hold great hope for a return to normalcy in 2022. Some of today’s most exciting talent is featured singing in four languages - English, French, German and Italian - instantly translated into English and Spanish on the company’s next-generation Avenir Electronic Libretto System. The 2022 Season celebrates the creation of new opera that explores topical themes such as gender identity, and offers fresh twists on beloved classics by Bizet, Rossini, Verdi and Wagner. Butterfly by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang directed by James Robinson the company premiere of Wagner’s masterpiece Tristan und Isoldeco-directed by Zack Winokur and Lisenka Heijboer Castañón a poignant retelling of Bizet’s Carmen by Mariame Clément Verdi’s comic final opera Falstaff in a co-production with Scottish Opera by Sir David McVicar Stephen Barlow’s inventive take on Rossini’s most popular opera The Barber of Seville and two Apprentice Scenes featuring the opera’s talented singing and technical apprentices. The ambitious season includes the company’s 18 th world premiere M. Speaking from the Scene Shop in the Poole Production Center, Meya shared that the Santa Fe Opera will present 38 performances and five new productions.
Meya announced on November 4 the repertory and casting for the company’s 65 th Festival Season running from July 1 through August 27, 2022. The Opera will produce six performances on July 23, 27 August 5, 11, 19 and 23.The Santa Fe Opera’s General Director Robert K. The work’s unprecedented chromaticism, tonal ambiguity and stunning orchestral color changed every composer who came after, influencing everything from Expressionism to film music to Heavy Metal. Its prelude’s opening with the famous yearning “Tristan chord” is often cited as the birth of modern music, unleashing an unstoppable wellspring of musical possibility. He conveyed his musings on love, sex and death in intensely chromatic music of deferred resolution, conveyed in tidal waves of full-throated singing and lush orchestral sound. Wagner wrote Tristan und Isolde under the twin influences of the gloomy philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and of Mathilde Wesendonck, his married lover - both of whom taught him a thing or two about unfulfilled longing. Soto, who is a longtime collaborator with Robert Wilson. Rounding out the creative team is costume designer Carlos J. “Opera is the field where all disciplines collide,” Winokur observes, “…and I want to smash these different methods of performance and expression together to produce a thing of power, meaning, matter and beauty.” The timeless set, designed by the cutting-edge architects Charlap Hyman & Herrero, serves as a canvas for a masterful play of light and shadow by lighting designer John Torres and projections designer Greg Emetaz. Debuting directors Zack Winokur and Lisenka Heijboer Castañón conjure a mesmerizing production of eloquent, elemental simplicity which emphasizes character, emotion and ideas. It will be presented in a new production opening on July 23, 2022. Tristan und Isolde will be a company premiere and the first piece by Richard Wagner to be seen on the Santa Fe Opera stage in over 30 years. James Gaffigan, who in 2018 conducted Ariadne auf Naxos at the Santa Fe Opera, will return to lead productions of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde starring Tamara Wilson, Jamie Barton, Simon O’Neill, Nicholas Brownlee, Eric Owens and David Leigh. The 65th Festival Season of the Santa Fe Opera runs July 1 through August 27, 2022. The Santa Fe Opera Announces an Ambitious 2022 Season on Sale Now
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