Shai Wosner Plays Beethoven, Bach & Bartók

Shai Wosner Plays Beethoven, Bach & Bartók

“Perhaps the most important part of music making is listening,” Shai Wosner once said in an interview with the online magazine Tokafi. “Before you produce any sound, you listen to the silence. Then, you listen to the sound and, [if you’re performing chamber music],...
Get Your Opening Weekend Gala Tickets Today!

Get Your Opening Weekend Gala Tickets Today!

On Friday, July 11—two days before our 52nd season begins—join us for Cirque des Sons, our magical Opening Weekend Summer Gala Celebration featuring Old World circus-style amusements plus fine dining and fantastic cocktails.   This special event, which benefits the...
2025 Artist Spotlight: Soprano Emily Pogorelc Makes Her Festival Debut

2025 Artist Spotlight: Soprano Emily Pogorelc Makes Her Festival Debut

“Opera is for everybody,” soprano Emily Pogorelc said in a recent interview with The Michigan Daily. “We all desire connection,” she added, “[and] the act of making an opera is an act of community.”     The Santa Fe community can connect with Pogorelc this summer,...
Violinist Chad Hoopes Returns for a Recital & More!

Violinist Chad Hoopes Returns for a Recital & More!

“I was really enthusiastic about the violin from when I was practically born,” Chad Hoopes said in a 2012 interview with Classical MPR, where he was completing his tenure as the network’s 2011–12 artist-in-residence. When he was three years old, he’d attended a...
Leila Josefowicz Premieres New Music and More

Leila Josefowicz Premieres New Music and More

In 2008, when the MacArthur Foundation awarded Leila Josefowicz a prestigious (and elusive) MacArthur Fellowship—famously nicknamed the “genius grant”—the organization noted that she was renowned for “broadening the [violin]’s repertoire and captivating audiences...