Welcome 2023

If your New Year's resolutions include attending more live performances by our major music and theater groups in 2023 (and we hope it does), ...

(The mezzo-soprano is a commentator, the tenor is Mercutio, and the baritone is Friar Lawrence.) The world premiere of Song for Taos, a piece commissioned by TCMG from Taos Pueblo composer-performer Robert Mirabal, takes place on June 3 and 4, with the Ethel Quartet joining the composer for the concerts. Most of the drama, including the portrayals of the title characters, is carried by the orchestra and chorus. First Presbyterian Church is the site for the group’s traditional Holy Week performances in 2023, with sacred and secular music by Christoph Graupner and Georg Philipp Telemann on April 1 and 2. Two operas new to Santa Fe — Antonín Dvorˇák’s lovely fairy tale Rusalka (July 22) and Claudio Monteverdi’s Orfeo (July 29), one of the first operas ever written, complete the season. It’s followed by two works that haven’t been seen here in several decades, Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman (July 1) and Claude Debussy’s Pelléas and Mélisande (July 15). The music includes six of The Beatles’ original tunes and four dance group originals, performed by a live ensemble. The program includes a selection of the Bagatelles, Op. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, will be played by Steinway Artist Jacquelyn Helin on May 6, with a program of opera, operetta, and zarzuela highlights closing the season on June 9. Morning Sun by British playwright Simon Stephens chronicles 50 years in the life of Charley McBride, who has lived in the same New York apartment for most of her life, bracketed by her mother and her daughter. First up in 2023, however, is a four-performance benefit, with actors Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross in a staged reading of Mark Twain’s The Diaries of Adam and Eve. Its most compelling offering in the new year is Champion (April 29 and May 1), an exploration of boxing champion Emile Griffith’s troubled life by jazz composer Terence Blanchard.