The Crosby Theatre with audience and orchestra at the Santa Fe Opera. Courtesy of Bob Godwin for the Santa Fe Opera
The crown jewel of New Mexico arts is finally getting a documentary.
Slated to screen first at Santa Fe’s Lensic Performing Arts Center on Thursday, Nov. 7, and on New Mexico PBS on Thursday, Nov. 14, “An American Vision: The Santa Fe Opera” is the first film documentary to focus on what has become one of the world’s most sought-after summer festivals.
Featuring never-before-seen archival materials and performance footage, the documentary film captures the opera’s remarkable history and explores the visionary efforts that have made it one of the world’s most sought-after summer festivals.
The film examines key moments in the opera’s history and features never-before-seen archival materials as well as interviews with leading creative figures including Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist David Henry Hwang, composer Huang Ruo, writer and critic Anne Midgette, renowned tenor and National Medal of Arts awardee George Shirley, opera director Peter Sellars, Santa Fe Opera music director Harry Bicket, general director Robert K. Meya and more.