Alfresco. The New Yorker, Aug. 21, 2023.
I've seen various premières and stagings at Santa Fe Opera over the years: Peter Lieberson's Ashoka's Dream, in 1997; Golijov's Ainadamar, in 2005, in the course of researching my long piece about Adams's Doctor Atomic; Rossini's La Donna del Lago, in 2013, in the course of profiling Joyce DiDonato; and John Corigliano's The Lord of Cries, in 2021. But I'd never really written about the company per se; hence this week's column. The main event is Yuval Sharon's production of Monteverdi's Orfeo, in a gorgeous new orchestration by Nico Muhly.