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The 2005 Santa Fe Opera Schedule

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Courtesy of our friends at Santa Fe Opera - here is the 2005 season and we anticipate that it will be the equal of 2004's great experiences on the stage that overlooks the pinons and sagebrush with the Jemez mountains at the final background - unless, of course, the moon is rising over the whole starry scene.

Performances begin at sunset, so please note that the start of performances gets earlier as the summer progresses.

2005 SEASON REPERTORY ANNOUNCED
REPERTORY

[ courtesy of Santa Fe Opera web site ]

• Puccini Turandot (New Production) First Performance by The Santa Fe Opera
  
• Rossini The Barber of Seville (New Production) Last performed in 1994
  
• Mozart Lucio Silla (New Production) First Performance by The Santa Fe Opera
  
• Britten Peter Grimes (New Production) First Performance by The Santa Fe Opera
  
• Golijov Ainadamar (Fountain of Tears) (World Premiere, Revised Version)
  
  

DEBUTS

• SINGERS: Richard Byrne, Anthony Dean Griffey,
  
• Keith Jameson, Michael Maniaci, Carl Tanner,
  
• Jennifer Wilson, Hung Yun
  
• CONDUCTORS: Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Bernard Labadie
  
• DIRECTORS: Paul Curran, Doug Fitch
  
• SCENIC DESIGNER: Doug Fitch
  
  

RETURNING ARTISTS

• Christine Brewer, Judith Christin, Anna Christy, Susan Graham,
  
• Gregory Kunde, Ana Maria Martinez, Alan Opie, Wilbur Pauley,
  
• Patricia Racette, Celena Shafer, Dawn Upshaw
  
• CONDUCTORS: Alan Gilbert, Kenneth Montgomery
  
• DIRECTORS: Jonathan Kent, Peter Sellars
  
• SCENIC DESIGNERS: Paul Brown, Robert Innes Hopkins
  

The Santa Fe Opera will launch the 2005 season on Friday, July 1 with Puccini's Turandot, followed by Rossini's The Barber of Seville on Saturday, July 2. There will be 37 performances ending Saturday, August 27 with Turandot. The third opera, Lucio Silla opens Saturday, July 16, Peter Grimes on July 23, and Ainadamar on July 30.

"2005 will be a very exciting season for The Santa Fe Opera," commented General Director Richard Gaddes in making the announcement. "Four of the five operas have never been presented on our stage. In choosing the repertory we always take into account the wishes of our audience, and Turandot has often been requested. It happened that a wonderful young soprano, Jennifer Wilson, was available to sing the title role, and a former apprentice Carl Tanner was available to sing Calaf, so the die was cast. Susan Graham and I had often talked about presenting Lucio Silla especially for her, and it's a perfect piece for us. It also has a wonderful cast all of who are up to the challenge of its very demanding music. Likewise, Christine Brewer and I had often talked about Peter Grimes, and having her sing the role of Ellen Orford with Anthony Dean Griffey in the title role is luxury casting. The Barber of Seville will not have been performed by the company in eleven years, and so it will be a welcome return."

Mr. Gaddes also announced today that a revised and expanded version of Ainadamar (Fountain of Tears) by the Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov will be premiered. Peter Sellars will direct the production which will feature Dawn Upshaw in the role she created in performances at Tanglewood, and which she also sang recently with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

"We are thrilled to be presenting a work by this important composer to our audiences for the first time," commented Mr. Gaddes. "Ainadamar has already received much acclaim, and the fact that it reunites Peter Sellars and Dawn Upshaw, who collaborated so spectacularly in Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de loin in 2002, will make a much-anticipated event for our audiences. It will also mark the first time in twenty-nine years that The Santa Fe Opera has presented an opera sung in Spanish," he said.

Ainadamar is based on the life of the Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, with a libretto by David Henry Hwang. Ms. Upshaw appears as the actress Margarita Xirgu, for whom Lorca wrote many of his great works. In his company debut is the conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, who also led the Los Angeles performances. The young conductor, winner of a 2002 Seaver/NEA Conductors Award, is Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

In a statement, Mr. Golijov, the recipient of a 2003 MacArthur Genius Award, said: "I cannot wait to work with Peter Sellars, Dawn Upshaw and Miguel Harth-Bedoya on the new summer 2005 Santa Fe production of Ainadamar. Peter, David Hwang and I are already working on the newly expanded version and I have every confidence that the new Fountain of Tears will serve to tighten the drama and give both Lorca and Xirgu their true tragic stature. I believe this new version will reverberate with a deeper beauty."

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct both Turandot and Peter Grimes. Doug Fitch, in his company debut, will serve as director and set designer for Turandot. Mr. Fitch has earned a reputation in a wide variety of disciplines including architecture, interior design, performance art, sculpture, and as an opera director. In the cast will be Ana Maria Martinez and Patricia Racette who will share the role of Liu. Both scored huge successes with the company last season: Ms. Martinez in Così fan tutte and Ms. Racette as Kátya Kabanová. In addition to Jennifer Wilson and Carl Tanner in the roles of Turandot and Calaf, Hung Yun and Keith Jameson, in their debuts, will sing Ping and Pong. Kevin Langan will appear as Timur. Messrs. Tanner, Yun and Jameson are all former apprentice singers. About Ms. Wilson, who made her debut with the Houston Grand Opera in this role, Charles Ward of the Houston Chronicle said, "She had power and secure top notes. Her phrasing was uncommonly intelligent. Legato singing was supple yet firm. Through her voice she could tell the audience volumes about a single word."

Susan Graham returns to the company to appear in Mozart's rarely performed Lucio Silla, written when the composer was sixteen, shortly after Mitridate. Miss Graham will sing the role of Cecilio, a Roman senator in the tyrannical reign of the emperor Lucio Silla. Gregory Kunde, remembered as Pirro in Ermione, is the Emperor. Former apprentice singer Celena Shafer, Hero in the current season's Beatrice and Benedict is Cecilio's lover Giunia. Michael Maniaci, in his company debut, is Lucio Sinna; Anna Christy, the young Madame Mao last summer, is Celia. The stage-director Jonathan Kent and the designer Paul Brown— of last summer's brilliant Kátya Kabanová— head the artistic team. In his debut is the Canadian conductor Bernard Labadie, who is currently Music and Artistic Director of L'Opera de Quebec.

Peter Grimes was commissioned sixty years ago by Serge Koussevitzky for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and since that time has received performances in major opera houses around the world. Anthony Dean Griffey has received acclaim for his portrayal of Peter Grimes at both the Bastille in Paris and Glyndebourne. Of his Glyndebourne performance, the critic of The Guardian observed: "Griffey combines the lyricism of Peter Pears with the roaring heft of Jon Vickers to give what is perhaps the finest interpretation of the role to date." Rodney Milnes of Opera Magazine in his review of Christine Brewer's recent performance of Isolde with the BBC Symphony wrote. "Older Wagnerians were searching through their memories to recall an Isolde sung with such succulent beauty of tone. Brewer's soprano seems founded on a really weighty middle register, with a substantial, meaty and never-forced lower range and a gleaming top as free and easy as the flight of an eagle…Simply sensational." The role of Sedley will be sung by Santa Fe favorite, Judith Christin. Alan Opie, who won acclaim as Chairman Mao in the 2003 production of Madame Mao, will appear as Balstrode. Kevin Langan will sing the role of Swallow and Wilbur Pauley, Hobson. Mr. Pauley is a former apprentice singer. Other cast members include Keith Jameson as Bob Boles and Richard Byrne, in his company debut, as Ned Keene. The director is Paul Curran, in his company debut. Mr. Curran is an Australian whose credits include a production of Peter Grimes in Trieste. He has been associated with companies throughout Europe; his American credits include the Washington and Los Angeles operas and Central City. Scenic designer is Robert Innes Hopkins, who is responsible for this season's Simon Boccanegra.

Veteran Santa Fe Opera conductor Kenneth Montgomery will lead a new production of The Barber of Seville. Cast and production details will be announced soon.

The Santa Fe Opera receives funding from the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers' Tax; New Mexico Arts, a division of the Office of Cultural Affairs; and the National Endowment for the Arts. American Airlines is the Opera's official airline. Opening night performances are sponsored by Las Campanas Santa Fe.

In person sales for the 2005 season begin Friday, July 2, 2004 at The Santa Fe Opera Box Office, or by telephone: 505.986.5900 or toll free: 800.280.4654.

For more information, contact:
Joyce Idema, Cindy Layman
press@santafeopera.org

Driving Instructions

Proceed south on US 84/285 to the "South Tesuque Exit."

At the stop sign at the bottom of the exit ramp, turn right and then quickly right again onto the frontage road that parallels the highway.

Continue on the frontage road to the Opera entrance.

IMPORTANT NOTE: There is no longer any access to the Opera directly from the highway. All traffic must use the frontage road from the South Tesuque exit to reach the Opera.

We suggest arriving no later than thirty minutes prior to your performance time, to avoid traffic congestion.There are two public parking areas at the Opera—attendants will greet you and guide you to parking. Parking is free, as is a shuttle between the lower parking area and the theater.