Opera

Opera Southwest: Before Night Falls

7:30 pm Friday 2:00 pm Saturday & Sunday Music / Jorge Martín-Buján Libretto / Jorge Martín-Buján & Dolores M. Koch A poet in love with the moon. Jorge Martín-Buján’s Before Night Falls is based on the autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas (which has also been made into a major motion picture starring Javier Bardem). Reinaldo experienced childhood poverty, joy in nature, a stint with the guerillas, international acclaim as a writer, imprisonment as a political dissident (and unapologetically gay man), a daring escape from Cuba, and exile in the (more…)

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Opera Southwest: New Year’s with the Opera!

2:30 pm New Year’s with the Opera! is a fun variety show featuring Opera Southwest’s most beloved recent performers, the Albuquerque Youth Symphony, 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 Year. General Public tickets on sale now! Learn more: Opera Southwest $50, $60 & $70 Please join the Opera Southwest for an after party to celebrate the New Year. $145, $155 and $165 depending on where you sit for the performance.

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Opera Southwest: Bluebeard’s Castle with Doctor Atomic

Oct. 22, 27 & 29 2:00 pm Sundays 7:30 pm Friday Enter Bluebeard’s Castle if you dare! Just in time for Halloween, Opera Southwest presents a double bill of thrills and chills! First, join us for Bartok’s chilling one-act opera, Bluebeard’s Castle. Then, dive into the psychological horror story of the Doctor Atomic Symphony, based on the Doctor Atomic opera by John Adams. This symphony tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the first successful atom bomb. $22, $42, $63, $85, $105 with discounts for

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Opera Southwest: New Year’s with the Opera!

2:30 pm New Year’s with the Opera! is a fun variety show featuring Opera Southwest’s most beloved recent performers, the Albuquerque Youth Symphony, 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 Year. $53, $63, $73 with an additional $95 for the Opera Southwest After-Party

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Opera Southwest: Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot

March 12, 15, 17 & 19, 2023 2:00 pm Sunday, 7:30 pm Wednesday & Friday Opera Southwest presents Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in Italian with English translation supertitles. Nessun dorma… No one sleeps in this beautiful new production of one of Puccini’s most famous operas by director Mo Zhou. A fairytale set in ancient China, Turandot brims with masterful music from start to finish. Maestro Anthony Barrese conducts. $22, $42, $63, $85, $105 with discounts for groups of 8 or more,

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Opera Southwest: Hector Armienta’s Zorro

October 23, 26, 28 & 30, 2022 2:00 pm Sunday, 7:30 pm Wednesday & Friday The NHCC & Opera Southwest presents Hector Armienta’s Zorro, a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in English and Spanish with both English and Spanish translation supertitles. Diego, a young man of noble blood in Alta California, awakens to the plight of the poor and oppressed through the love of Ana Maria. Donning a black mask, he becomes Zorro and brings the revolution to the pueblo of Los Ángeles. Opera Southwest, along

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NHCC Foundation Meet and Greet with Cecilia Violetta Lopez

4:00 pm to 5:30 pm NHCC Foundation Meet and Greet with Cecilia Violetta Lopez. Light hors d’oeuvres and one drink will be included Cash Bar Available. Cecilia López, a talented Mexican-American opera soprano known as “The Daughter of Idaho,” was born in Rupert, Idaho but currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ms. López’s musical career began when she was a little child and began singing mariachi songs that her mother had taught her. She received the coveted Idaho State Concurrent Resolution honoring her life as an Idahoan

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Opera Southwest: New Year’s with the Opera!

2 pm & 7 pm New Year’s with the Opera is a fun variety show featuring Opera Southwest’s most beloved recent performers, the Albuquerque Youth Symphony, 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 Year. Please join us this year for our family-friendly presentation at 2 pm. $49, $59, $69 with an additional $45 for the Opera Southwest After-Party COVID PROTOCOLS: 

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Opera Southwest: Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande

March 20, 25 & 27, 2022 Sundays at 2 pm, Friday at 7:30 pm Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in French with English translation supertitles.  Presented in two acts with one intermission. Created in 1902, Debussy’s masterpiece never ceases to fascinate with its uniqueness, its symbolist universe, and its unparalleled musical and poetic approach to the French language. $21, $41, $62, $83, $103 with discounts for Groups of 8 or more, any one 30 years old and younger and Opera for All with a WIC or EBT card.

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