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Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican At a dinner party on March 1, 1937, Marc Blitzstein played and sang through The Cradle Will Rock for Hallie Flanagan, head [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican Johann Sebastian Bach was passionate about his Passions. The great Baroque composer, a devout Lutheran, wrote no fewer than five of them, [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican They were the most unlikely musical comedy stars in Broadway history. From Lydia Annucci to Millie Weitz, the 42 cast members had [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican At a time when most performing groups feel fortunate if they can maintain the status quo, two New Mexico arts leaders face [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican Yes, it can happen: You can get up close and personal with Old Man Gloom, although not on immolation night in Fort [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican Santa Fe has seen its share of gloomy operas over the years -- including Elektra, Tosca, Wozzeck, Salome, and Lulu, to name [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican A Bartók quartet marathon, a Kirill Gerstein piano recital, a child-themed song recital by Fleur Barron, and piano quintets by Johannes Brahms [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican Just as Santa Fe's summer classical music season is winding down, things are heating up to the north, thanks to Music from [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival offerings for August 2-8 include three world premieres, a program of Baroque guitar concertos, a song [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican SPOTLIGHT EVENT Here's your chance to lord it over your music-loving friends in the future by saying, 'I heard Annika Schlicht in [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican THE ELIXIR OF LOVE: Comic music-drama ('melodramma giocoso') in two acts THE PREMIERE: May 12, 1832, Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan THE PEOPLE: [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican Gaetano Donizetti's The Elixir of Love is in part a parody of the Tristan and Isolde legend, a 12th-century Celtic romance most [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican Week two of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival features a duo of pianists performing works by the one and only Ludwig [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican Der Rosenkavalier: (The Knight of the Rose) Kom'die für Musik (Comedy for Music) in three acts The Premiere: January 26, 1911, Semperoper, [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican The lineup for this week looked quite different just a few weeks ago. Continuing the theme of late-breaking performer changes launched by [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican On October 29, 1787, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart sat at the keyboard in the orchestra of Prague's Estates Theater to lead the world [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican WE know the question you really want answered about the new production of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata that opens the 2024 Santa [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican At the beginning of the Act II finale, Don Giovanni enjoys a solo dinner while an onstage wind band plays highlights from [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican An Armenian, an Uzbek, and a Mexican walk into a rehearsal hall at the Santa Fe Opera. Why? They have the three [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican Long story short: Violetta and Alfredo's all-consuming love is doused by his moralistic father, but by the time Dad realizes his mistake, [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican Long story short: After cataloguing 2,065 seductions and killing the father of Donna Anna (who was almost number 2,066), Don Giovanni is [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican Lorenzo Da Ponte led a life as rich in scandal, intrigue, and rascality as that of any opera subject. Over the course [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican Something new must have started showing up in northern New Mexico's water starting 25 or 30 years ago. Not only new, but [...]

Byline: Mark Tiarks l, For The New Mexican Let's be honest. Many of us got our first taste of opera alongside our bowls of Rice Krispies or Cheerios, watching Saturday [...]