Music

Santa Fe Opera Announces An Ambitious 2022 Season

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Courtesy/SFO

SFO News:

SANTA FE — The Santa Fe Opera’s (SFO) General Director Robert K. Meya today announced the repertory and casting for the company’s 65th Festival Season running July 1 through Aug. 27, 2022.

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.

The ambitious season includes the company’s 18th world premiere:

  • M. Butterfly by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang directed by James Robinson;
  • the company premiere of Wagner’s masterpiece Tristan und Isolde co-directed by Zack
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Pianist Kathleen Ryan At LAAC Brown Bag Show Wednesday

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Pianist Kathleen Ryan

LAAC News:

The Los Alamos Arts Council hosts the next free Brown Bag performance at noon Wednesday, Nov. 3 in the Pajarito Room at Fuller Lodge.

Masks are required and there will be a limit of 50 people in the venue. 

The community is welcomed to take a lunch break and listen to Kathleen Ryan at the piano. Ryan has an AB in music and anthropology at Duke University and an MA in music at the Claremont Graduate University. Her piano teachers included Alice Shapiro, Ivan Waldbauer and Barbara Lister-Sink.

Ryan was the 2008 Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico Commissioned Composer,
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Los Alamos Community Winds Presents Fall Concert Friday

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Scene of the Los Alamos Community Winds performing during ‘An Evening of Arts and Culture’ Oct. 22 at Fuller Lodge. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com

The Los Alamos Community Winds will present its first indoor public concert since the beginning of the pandemic, 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5 at Crossroads Bible Church. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Masks are required per church policy.

“It’s been too long since we have been able to do a live concert,” Winds Artistic and Musical Director Ted Vives said.

The program is a mix of classic Read More

LAHS Presents Our Town By Thornton Wilder Nov. 5-13

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By OLIVIA LONG
Head of Advertising and Marketing
Los Alamos High School Olions

Come out and support Los Alamos High School Olions performing Our Town! A Thornton Wilder play that’s entertaining from beginning to end and displays the talent of our local students.

Our Town is truly the perfect combination of modern local talent and enduring timeless values of family, childhood, and romance. It presents the gentleness and humor of wedding jitters and high-school math homework, as well as the calm sadness of time just flying by.

With evening (7 p.m.) performances Friday, Nov. 5; Saturday, Nov. Read More

More Scenes From An Evening Of Arts & Culture

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Belisama Irish Dancers open ‘An Evening of Arts and Culture’ Friday at Fuller Lodge. In celebration of National Arts and Humanities Month, and all forms of local artistic talent, Los Alamos Arts Council (LAAC) hosted the 2021 Evening of Arts and Culture with the support of the Los Alamos Creative District Friday night at venues throughout downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Belisama Irish Dancers take to the air during their performance in ‘An Evening of Arts Culture’ Friday at Fuller Lodge.. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Belly Dancers from En Pointe Read More

Scenes From Topper Marching Band Send-Off Performance

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The 125-member Topper Marching Band on the field. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

The band performing music from the 1990s. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

Scene of Parents Shadow Night as parents join their band members on the field. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

LAHS News:

The 125-member Topper Marching Band under the direction of Zane Meek, invited the community to a send-off and senior night performance to prepare for the Zia Marching Fiesta, which was held Saturday in Albuquerque at UNM Stadium.

The bleachers were filled with parents, relatives and students for Read More

Scenes From An Evening Of Arts And Culture

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Dance Arts Los Alamos ballerinas get ready to perform a preview of their upcoming show, ‘Ratcracker’ during Friday night’s Evening of Arts and Culture. The preview was held at Los Alamos Little Theater. From left, Maya Clausen, Dayna Glover, Sofia Lebensohn, Elise Chavez and Isabella Bailey get ready in the the theater’s green room. In celebration of National Arts and Humanities Month, and all forms of local artistic talent, Los Alamos Arts Council hosted the 2021 Evening of Arts and Culture with the support of Los Alamos Creative District Friday night at venues around downtown Los Alamos. Read More

Lensic Announces Second Half Of Its ‘Lensic Presents’ Series … Eight New Shows In 2022

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The Lensic News:

SANTA FE —The Lensic announces eight new performances in 2022 in its Lensic Presents series of original programming.

The new events round out the Lensic Presents 2021‒22 Season, which launched in September.

“After many months without live performances, this Lensic Presents season is especially exciting for us—and the energy we’re feeling from audiences has been incredible,” Lensic Executive Director Joel Alberts said. “We started our new Lensic Presents season with a sold-out concert by trumpeter Chris Botti and haven’t slowed down since.”

Tickets to the new events go Read More

Santa Fe Opera Reports History-Making Reopening Season

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Sunset on closing night of the 2021 Season at the Santa Fe Opera. Photo by Dune Alford

SFO News:

SANTA FE — The Santa Fe Opera (SFO) reports on the state of the opera following its 2021 Reopening Season and 2021 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30.

Among the first opera companies in the world to return to performances in its own venue in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company presented 30 mainstage performances, held hundreds of rehearsals and employed more than 500 members of staff without a single postponement or cancellation in its 64th Festival Season.

“From the first downbeat on opening Read More

‘El Piano De America’ Raul Di Blasio At The Lensic Nov. 17

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Raul Di Blasio. Courtesy photo

MUSIC News:

Argentine pianist-composer Raul Di Blasio has been enchanting audiences worldwide for decades. At 8 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 17, he will once again be enchanting the audience of Santa Fe with an “Intimate Piano” concert at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.

Born in Zapala, Argentina in 1949, beginning his musical training at age 6; initially studying latin musical traditions like tango and bossa nova. As he grew, he was further influenced by the great classical European composers.

Dubbed “El Pianista de todos” (The People’s Pianist”), he moved to Miami Read More