Santa Fe Opera

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Santa Fe Opera is a renowned open-air opera company and festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, celebrated for its innovative productions and dramatic desert setting.

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instanceOf music festival
opera company
performing arts organization
architecturalStyle modernist open-air design
basedIn Santa Fe metropolitan area
country United States
focusesOn staging operas in repertory
formerName New Mexico Opera
foundedBy John Crosby
genre opera
hasEducationalProgram apprentice singer program
apprentice technician program
youth and community programs
hasFeature covered audience seating
covered stage
open sides of auditorium
orchestra pit
views of surrounding landscape from seating
hasType nonprofit organization
hasVenue Crosby Theatre
hasView Jemez Mountains
Sangre de Cristo Mountains
hasWebsite https://www.santafeopera.org
headquartersLocation Santa Fe, New Mexico
inception 1956
languageOfWorkOrName English
locatedIn New Mexico
Santa Fe County, New Mexico
locatedNear U.S. Route 84/285 north of Santa Fe
location Santa Fe, New Mexico
notableFor dramatic desert setting
innovative productions
modern and rarely performed operas
open-air opera performances
sunset and lightning vistas during performances
views of the Jemez Mountains
openingDate July 3, 1957
partOf cultural life of Santa Fe
performs American premieres
contemporary operas
standard operatic repertoire
world premieres
primaryPerformanceLanguage multiple languages
regionServed international audience
roofType partially covered open-air roof
season summer
typicalSeasonDuration July to August
uses supertitles

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Northern New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico
hasInstitution
Santa Fe Opera ("New Mexico Opera")
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