The Santa Fe Opera 2023

KHFM and The Santa Fe Opera bring you performances recorded live during the 2023 Season.

Click here to find out where you can listen to us. If you want to listen to it again, each broadcast will be available for 30 days after it airs.

The Santa Fe Opera on KHFM is supported by a generous donation from Dr. Dean Yannias.

Leah Hawkins as Tosca. Photo by Curtis Brown.

Tosca
July 31 at 6 pm

This broadcast will be AVAILABLE FOR UNLIMITED STREAMING From August 1-30, 2023. Listen as often as you wish.

Music: Giacomo Puccini
Libretto: Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Conductor: John Fiore
Stage Director: Keith Warner

Cast
Tosca: Leah Hawkins
Cavaradossi: Joshua Guerrero
Scarpia: Reginald Smith, Jr.
Angelotti: Blake Denson
Sacristan: Dale Travis
Spoletta: Spencer Hamlin
Sciarrone: Ben Brady
Shepherd Boy: Kai Edgar

Ensemble: The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Synopsis
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Photo by Curtis Brown.

The Flying Dutchman
August 7 at 6 pm

This broadcast will be AVAILABLE FOR UNLIMITED STREAMING from August 8-September 6, 2023. Listen as often as you wish.

Music and Libretto: Richard Wagner
Conductor: Thomas Guggeis
Stage Director: David Alden

Cast
Dutchman: Nicholas Brownlee
Senta: Elza van den Heever
Erik: Chad Shelton
Daland: Morris Robinson
Steersman: Bille Bruley
Mary: Gretchen Krupp

Ensemble: The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Synopsis
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Huw Montague Rendall and Samantha Hankey. Photo by Curtis Brown.

Pelléas and Mélisande
August 14 at 6 pm

This broadcast will be AVAILABLE FOR UNLIMITED STREAMING from August 15-September 13, 2023. Listen as often as you wish.

Music: Claude Debussy
Libretto: Claude Debussy, adapted from the play by Maurice Maeterlinck
Conductor: Harry Bicket
Stage Director: Netia Jones

Cast
Pelléas: Huw Montague Rendall
Mélisande: Samantha Hankey
Golaud: Zachary Nelson
Arkel: Raymond Aceto
Gèneviève: Susan Graham
Yniold: Kai Edgar
Physician: Ben Brady
Shepherd: Brandon Bell

Ensemble: The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Synopsis
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Ailyn Perez as Rusalka. Photo by Curtis Brown.

Rusalka
August 21 at 6 pm

This broadcast will be AVAILABLE FOR UNLIMITED STREAMING from August 22-September 20, 2023. Listen as often as you wish.

Music Antonín Dvořák
Libretto: Jaroslav Kvapil
Conductor: Lidiya Yankovskaya
Stage Director: Sir David Pountney

Cast
Rusalka: Ailyn Pérez
The Prince: Robert Watson
Vodník: James Creswell
Ježibaba: Raehann Bryce-Davis
Foreign Princess: Mary Elizabeth Williams
Wood Sprites: Ilanah Lobel-Torres, Lydia Grindatto, Meridian Prall
Gamekeeper: Jordan Loyd
Kitchen Girl: Kaylee Nichols
Hunter: Spencer Reichman

Ensemble: The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Synopsis
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Lauren Snouffer and Rolando Villazón. Photo by Curtis Brown.

Orfeo
August 28 at 6 pm

This broadcast will be AVAILABLE FOR UNLIMITED STREAMING from August 29-September 27, 2023. Listen as often as you wish.

Orfeo
August 28 at 6 pm

Music: Claudio Monteverdi / World Premiere Orchestration by Nico Muhly
Libretto: Alessandro Striggio
Conductor: Harry Bicket
Stage Director: Yuval Sharon

Cast
Orfeo: Rolando Villazón
La Messaggera: Paula Murrihy
La Musica / Speranza: Lauren Snouffer
Euridice: Amber Norelai
Caronte (the ferryman): James Creswell
Plutone: Blake Denson
Propserina: Caitlin Aloia
La Ninfa: Lucy Evans
Apollo: Luke Harnish
First Pastore: Philippe L’Esperance
Second Pastore: Brandon Bell
Third Pastore: Luke Elmer
Fourth Pastore/First Spirit: Younggwang Park
Fifth Pastore/Second: Spirit Le Bu

Ensemble: The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Synopsis
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