For this opera he turned again to David Henry Hwang, the librettist of his second opera, An American Soldier, premiered at Washington National Opera. The Chinese-American composer had his Santa Fe Opera debut in 2014 with the leaden Dr. Butterfly, on Saturday night.Ĭoronavirus postponed this event from the 2020 canceled season, but composer Huang Ruo finally makes his belated return to Santa Fe with this new work. Yet the mountaintop venue is looking once again like the nation’s premiere summer opera destination, beginning with the world premiere of a new opera, M.
This summer the company returns to its full five-opera slate, although without works by its founder’s favorites, Mozart and Strauss.
Photo: Curtis BrownĪfter 2020, the first summer in its history without live opera, the company presented a shortened season of only thirty performances last year. Kangmin Justin Kim as Song Liling and Mark Stone as René Gallimard in the world premiere of Huang Ruo’s M.
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