3 pm Iphigenia en Tracia, based on Euripedes’ Iphigenia in Tauris, was written in 1747 by José de Nebra, known as the leading late-Baroque composer of Spanish opera and zarzuela, with libretto by Nicolás González Martínez. Nebra’s ultimate, highly dramatic zarzuela is a tragicomic version of the legendary story, set near the ancient city of […]
April 3, 6, 8 & 10, 2016 2pm Sundays 7:30pm Wednesday & Friday In the second New Mexico premiere of our 43rd season, Opera Southwest returns to our popular and critically acclaimed exploration of the music of Rossini, with his delightfully zany Il Turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy)-a fully staged opera with orchestra, […]
October 23, 26, 28 & 30, 2016 2 pm—Sundays 7:30 pm—Wednesday & Friday Rossini’s Tancredi is a fully-staged opera with orchestra, sung in Italian with English translation supertitles and presented in two acts with one intermission. This will be the New Mexico premiere of Rossini’s little-known masterwork. Set against the exotic backdrop of war, intrigue, […]
6 pm Join the National Hispanic Cultural Center for an unveiling and dedication of Reynaldo “Sonny” Rivera’s sculptural bust of Rudolfo Anaya in the Center’s History and Literary Arts Library from 6 to 7 pm, in advance of the Center’s presentation of Mr. Anaya’s work The Season of La Llorona in the Roy E. Disney […]
7:30 pm New Year’s with the Opera is a fun variety show featuring a quartet of Opera Southwest’s most beloved recent performers, including Alyssa Anderson, Jeffrey Beruan, Matthew Vickers, Sarah Asmar, and the Opera Southwest Chamber Orchestra. With a variety of opera favorites and light classics, there is something for everyone to ring in the New […]
March 26, 29 & 31 and April 2, 2017 2 pm—Sundays 7:30 pm—Wednesday & Friday Pagliacci is a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in Italian with English translation supertitles and presented in two acts with one intermission. The original ripped-from-the-headlines true crime story, Pagliacci is the tragic tale of a traveling troupe torn apart […]
7:30 pm Singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens is the co-founder of the Grammy award-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, in which she also plays banjo and fiddle. She began gaining recognition as a solo artist when she stole the show at the T Bone Burnett–produced Another Day, Another Time concert at New York City’s Town Hall in […]
2 pm Join us on Saturday, August 12 at 2 pm for a special tour of the NHCC Art Museum’s exhibition, Outstanding in His Field: San Ysidro—Patron Saint of Farmers. Led by two different specialists with two distinct perspectives, it’s sure to have you seeing the artwork in new ways! The tour will be led […]
October 22, 25, 27 & 29, 2017 2 pm -- Sundays 7:30 pm—Wednesday & Friday Rossini’s William Tell is a fully-staged opera with orchestra, sung in French with English translation supertitles and presented in four acts with two intermission. This will be the New Mexico premiere of Rossini’s masterwork. The last opera Rossini ever wrote, […]
Friday at 7 pm Saturday at 2 pm Shoes for the Santo Niño is the story of Julianita, the youngest of eleven children, who slips out of her home one evening to take a pair of “practical” shoes that she has made to the Santo Niño de Atocha. When she enters the church, the Santo […]
