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Artist: Santa Fe Opera
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Background: The fantastic Santa Fe Opera - in one of the most spectacular settings in the operatic world - has programmed five major productions each summer season since 1957, al fresco under the awesome New Mexico sky. The new 2100-seater opera house has enhanced the company's worldwide reputation in not only the standard operatic repertoire (particularly Richard Strauss) but also contemporary opera.

The brainchild of conductor and impresario John Crosby who bowed out in 2000, Santa Fe Opera is one of the most breathtaking opera venues in the world, built into a hillside, with spectacular views of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Each year the company stages an American première and usually a Richard Strauss opera (Strauss was Crosby's favorite composer!).

By the Millennium there had been 114 operas presented, including nine world premières (all but one Sante Fe commissions) and 28 American premières, including Berg's Lulu. Artists of international standing that have appeared at the festival include Ben Heppner, Bryn Terfel, Kiri TeKanawa, Tatiana Troyanos, James Morris, Samuel Ramey, Catherine Malfitano and Sylvia McNair.

Finally the company continues its laudable commitment to new opera with the première of Bright Sheng's opera about Madame Mao Zedong, Madame Mao, with a libretto by Colin Graham, who also directs (26, 30 July; August 8 & 14). John Fiore conducts a cast which includes both Robynne Redmon and Anna Christy in the twin roles of Jiang Ching who marries Mao Zedong (British baritone Alan Opie). Among concerts, fabulous French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay makes her American concert debut, conducted by Evelino Pidò (9 August). There is also a memorial concert for founder John Crosby who died on 15 December 2002 on the day he was originally scheduled to conduct the Intermezzo revival - 12 July - which would have been his 77th birthday. Christine Brewer sings Strauss' Four Last Songs conducted by Kenneth Montgomery.

2004 - the first season to be presided over by new music director Alan Gilbert - will see three operas new to Sante Fe: Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Handel's Agrippina and Puccini's La rondine, with a further new production, Mozart's Don Giovanni. The final opera will be a revival of Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict.

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