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Santa Fe Opera,

summer opera festival held outside Santa Fe, N. Mex., founded 1957. Featuring outstanding young singers and musicians, it presents a wide variety of operas from the standard repertory and lesser-known works; it has also commissioned a number of contemporary works and presented both world and American premieres. It was founded by John Crosby (1928–2002), who directed the festival and conducted its productions from its inception until 2000. Harry Bicket has been chief conductor from 2013 and music director from 2018. Concerts are held in the open-air Crosby Theater (1998) and Stieren Orchestra Hall (2001) on a 155-acre (63-hectare) campus located between the Sangre de Cristo and Jemez mts.
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Additionally, he has performed with Santa Fe Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Indianapolis Opera, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Grant Park Music Festival, Charlottesville Opera, Kentucky Opera, Pensacola Opera, and was a previous member of the Cantus vocal ensemble.
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She is a Pulitzer Prize winning composer, whose opera, Cold Mountain, enjoyed its world premiere at the Santa Fe Opera in the summer of 2015, with performances sold out far in advance of the summer season.
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A Vision of Voices: John Crosby and the Santa Fe Opera
A Vision of Voices: John Crosby and the Santa Fe Opera
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Sean McClelland (set), Carbonell award winner, has received critical acclaim for his work on many productions including, August: Osage County and Les Miserables at the Actors Playhouse and has also designed for the Santa Fe Opera, GableStage and SoBe Arts.
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Picker, who was to compose the canceled new work for Washington, had a big success in 1996 with AoEmmelineAo at the Santa Fe Opera, but the work has hardly been performed since.
New American operas scaling down

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