Here’s my review essay for Musical America covering three of the productions at the 2024 Santa Fe Opera Festival:
SANTA FE, NM— “Love is terrifying,” observes the protagonist of The Righteous, the affecting new work by Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith at Santa Fe Opera. A preacher elected to be governor during the 1980s, he’s referring to the early years of the AIDS crisis in this highly era-specific opera. But his observation emerged as a theme in Louisa Muller’s new production of La traviata, which bookends the company’s summer-based season running from late June to August.
Filed under: directors, Donizetti, Mozart, review, Richard Strauss, Santa Fe Opera, singers
MEMETERIA by Thomas May 