


September 17 at 6:00 pm MDT in Santa Fe’s SWAN Park, Carmen 17 and 18.Īugust 28 at 6:00 pm MDT in Albuquerque’s Civic Plaza, Carmen The company will also present screenings of Bizet’s “Carmen” and Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” in Santa Fe at the SWAN Park, on Sept. On-site concessions and instant, on-screen translations in English and Spanish will be available. The live-recorded production will be presented on a large-scale, professional projection system and audio will be broadcast via outdoor speakers. He has curated major museum exhibitions in California and New Mexico about historical popular music relating to those states.The Santa Fe Opera has announced the return of free Opera in the Park screenings in Albuquerque and Santa Fe and Radio Broadcasts with 95.5 KHFM Classical Public Radio.Īlbuquerque residents will have a chance to experience a free screening of Bizet’s “Carmen,” at Civic Plaza on August 28. In demand as a lecturer and interviewer, he was formerly Program Annotator of the New York Philharmonic, a writer-editor at The New Yorker, and critic at-large for the Santa Fe New Mexican. He is the author of Chamber Music: A Listener’s Guide (Oxford University Press) and has contributed chapters to books including American Mavericks, George Crumb and the Alchemy of Sound, and Leonard Bernstein, American Original. Keller recently completed his 21st season as Program Annotator of the San Francisco Symphony. He will discuss how political, social, and aesthetic concerns came to bear on their decisions as they labored during three years from the opera’s conception to its premiere, in March 1875, and how the results led to immediate failure and eventual triumph. Keller considers how composer Georges Bizet and librettists Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy put together their opera Carmen, drawing principally from Prosper Mérimée’s novella but from other literary and musical sources as well. MDT)Ĭomplementary for Guild Members $10 Per Device for Non-Members.

Tuesday, May 10 with presenter James Keller virtually on Zoom. Santa Fe Opera Guild Presents ‘Carmen’s Path from Novella to Opera’, 3-4:30 p.m. Celestine Galli-Marie as Carmen de Bizet.
