After going dark in 2020 and offering only four operas and reduced seating this summer, the Santa Fe Opera plans to be back in 2022 with postponed programming and a standard five-opera season.
There will be 36 performances of the operas, all in new productions, as well as two evenings of scenes by the apprentice singers and technicians, General Director Robert Meya announced in a virtual event Thursday.
The season opens July 1, with Georges Bizet’s Carmen, followed the next evening by Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff on July 16, Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde on July 23, and the world premiere of Huang Ruo’s and David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly on July 30.