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Day: August 21, 2019

Chamber Music: Masters’ Youth

Chamber Music: Masters’ Youth

SANTA FE, NM—For a month every summer, the Chamber Music Festival lights up the scene with 45 concerts by 87 musicians from all over the map, sometimes twice a day, mostly at the inviting fresco-festooned St. Francis Auditorium. There the small ensembles serve up the three B’s along with many other post-baroque figures, right down to living composers John Harbison and George Crumb, often as seen from an East Coast perspective. I sauntered in casually for the Aug. 15 noon…

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PASSION-WROUGHT ‘JENUFA;’ A HOT-AND-COLD ADULT FAIRY-TALE OPERA

PASSION-WROUGHT ‘JENUFA;’ A HOT-AND-COLD ADULT FAIRY-TALE OPERA

SANTA FE, NM—-With new leadership at the helm, the Opera here is making news this summer with two shows for very different reasons: One, an emotion-torn, gut-wrenching “Jenufa” that was the summer’s runaway hit drama, the other a world-premiere fairy-tale for big people. The human tragedy “Jenufa” is built around the village saga of two dramatic sopranos playing the title role and the stepmother respectively: Jenufa, jilted by the playboy Steva and faced with disgrace for her birth out of…

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