Santa fe opera 20175/11/2023 ![]() The laughing stops when Donizetti's madness-fraught melodrama, Lucia di Lammermoor, opens on July 1. In most performances this summer, super-diva Susan Graham drawls away as the gender-challenged Prince Orlofsky, while a suspicious wife Rosalinde (Devon Guthrie) exacts revenge upon her philandering mate, Eisenstein (Kurt Streit), with everyone winding up in the juzgado supervised by a muy borracho jailer (scenery-chewer Kevin Burdette). The usual operetta appurtenances apply: disguise, mistaken identities, romantic trickery, Champagne. Drag out your dancing pumps, gents, and your fanciest dominos, ladies, for a fling at the Waltz King's flirtatious party. Another Strauss, Johann Jr., opens the season on June 30 with that high-calorie Viennese confection, Die Fledermaus. Which brings us up to 2017 with-gasp-neither Mozart nor Puccini nor Richard Strauss on the agenda. During that 1957 season, Puccini, Stravinsky, Mozart and Richard Strauss caroled their way through chilly high-desert nights, all courtesy of the unflinching founding patriarch, John Crosby.Ĭrosby left behind a still-sustained credo for the company: to offer a balanced but innovative repertory, to discover and cultivate young artists and to maintain the SFO's legendary reputation as the nation's premier summer opera festival. In comparison, SFO didn't feel all that legendary when it opened 61 seasons ago, with mostly bench seating for 480 patrons facing a handsome, down-to-business redwood stage. ![]() ![]() Those Blackglama coats just flew out of furriers' shops. You don't have to be an antique to remember that late, great ad campaign: "What becomes a legend most…" with accompanying shots of mink-swathed dames cooing into Richard Avedon's monochromatic camera. ![]()
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