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FESTIVAL OF SONG 1
Jennifer Johnson Cano, MEZZO-SOPRANO |
Anthony Roth Costanzo, COUNTERTENOR | Robert Tweten, PIANO
Sunday, July 28 | 4 PM | Scottish Rite Temple
Aquehonga Gregory Spears
Jennifer Johnson Cano and Robert Tweten (b. 1977)
Im Rhein, im schönen Strome S. 272- 2nd version Franz Liszt
Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh’ S. 306- 3rd version (1811-1886)
Hohe Liebe
Ihr Glocken von Marling
S. 328
Anthony Roth Constanzo and Robert Tweten
Die Mainacht
Verzagen
Von ewiger Liebe
Unbewegte laue Luft
Op. 48 #2
Johannes Brahms
Op. 72 #4 (1833-1897)
Op. 43 #1
Op. 57 #8
Jennifer Johnson Cano and Robert Tweten
Liquid Days Philip Glass
In the arc of your Mallet (b. 1937) 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
Anthony Roth Constanzo and Robert Tweten
Vocalise
Spring Waters
Op. 34 #14
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Op. 14 #1 (1873-1943)
Jennifer Johnson Cano and Robert Tweten
Fearsome This Night Gregory Spears
Anthony Roth Constanzo and Robert Tweten
Festival of Song is presented through the generosity of Bruce Donnell.
Artists appear courtesy of The Santa Fe Opera.
“Dramatic intelligence and imagination suffused every note of Ms. Johnson Cano’s performance. Endowed with an attention-grabbing dark mezzo, its depths bracing like strong coffee, she seems to thrive in the role of a storyteller.”
— The New York Times
— The Wall Street Journal “
“Otherworldly”
ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO
JENNIFER JOHNSON CANO
Jennifer Johnson Cano
Jennifer Johnson Cano has garnered critical acclaim for performances of both new and standard repertoire; lauded by the New York Times for her “rich-toned mezzo-soprano” voice and by Opera News as a “matchless interpreter of contemporary opera.”
In summer 2023, Cano performs Mozart’s Requiem with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Bravo! Vail Festival Chorus under Yannick Nézet-Séguin and can be heard in concert with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Soceity and Music from Angel Fire. Her 2023-2024 season highlights include performances as Mistress Quickly in Falstaff at Houston Grand Opera; appearances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Dallas, Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and National Symphonies; the Philadelphia premiere of Marc Neikrug’s A Song by Mahler with the FLUX Quartet. Next summer, she inaugurates the role of Michele in the world premiere of Gregory Spears’s The Righteous with Santa Fe Opera.
Cano undertakes a balance of orchestral, opera and chamber music performances each season. She has collaborated on numerous projects with the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel in both the US and Europe. She has performed with the New York Philharmonic in both New York and Vail; Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck; Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin; the Chicago Symphony and Riccardo Muti; and Atlanta Symphony under Nathalie Stutzman.
Highlights of Cano’s operatic career have included performing the roles of Donna Elvira, Carmen and Offred with the Boston Lyric Opera; The Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen with the Cleveland Orchestra; the Mother, Dragonfly, and the Squirrel in L’enfant et les sortilèges with the San Francisco Symphony; performances of El Niño with John Adams and the London Symphony Orchestra; Carmen with the New Orleans Opera; and Orphée with the Des Moines Metro Opera and Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
She has appeared in more than 100 performances on the stage at The Metropolitan Opera since her debut in the 2009-2010 season, most recently in the roles of Nicklausse, Emilia, Hansel, and Meg Page. Cano debuted the role of Virginia Woolf in the world premiere of Kevin Puts’s The Hours with the Philadelphia Orchestra about which The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, “Every word was clear both in content and intention, and her mezzo-soprano tone was deeply alluring.”
Other recent roles have included Mother Marie in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites with Houston Grand Opera; Judith in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle with Roanoke Opera; Donna Elvira with the Atlanta Opera; and Celeste in the world premiere of Gregory Spears’s Castor and Patience with Cincinnati Opera.
A native of St. Louis, Cano earned degrees from Rice University and Webster University, where she was honored as a distinguished alumna and commencement speaker in May 2017. Her debut recital recording with pianist Christopher Cano, “Unaffected: Live from the Savannah Voice Festival,” was recorded live and unedited. She sings as a soloist on a live recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony and in Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 “Jeremiah” with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She also recorded Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble. Ms. Cano joined the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera after winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Among her honors are Winner of the Young Concert Artist International Auditions, a Sara Tucker Study Grant, a Richard Tucker Career Grant and a George London Award.
Anthony Roth Costanzo
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. He was recently awarded a GRAMMY, an Honorary Doctorate from Manhattan School of Music, a visiting fellowship from Oxford University, and the History Makers Award from the New York Historical Society. He is a distinguished visiting scholar at Harvard, a recipient of the 2020 Beverly Sills Award from the Metropolitan Opera, a winner of the 2020 Opera News Award, and Musical America’s 2019 Vocalist of the Year.
This coming season, he returns to the Metropolitan Opera in another title role, after two sold-out runs of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten, as Gluck’s Orfeo. His season also includes a chamber concert with the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, his Paris Opera Debut in a new production of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel under the baton of the composer, a world premiere at Santa Fe Opera, solo recitals at the Kennedy Center and Boston Celebrity Series, a return to Madrid’s Teatro Real, his Wigmore Hall debut, performances at the new Perelman Arts Center in New York. Last season he was artist-in-residence with the New York Philharmonic, and artist-in-residence at Glimmerglass Opera, where he sang the title role in Rinaldo and performed with Natalie Merchant. He also returned to the Spoleto Festival USA for orchestra and chamber concerts, and he brought the show he created with Justin Vivian Bond, based on his second album for Decca Gold. His first album, with music by Glass and Handel, was nominated for a GRAMMY.
Costanzo has appeared with many of the world’s leading opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, English National Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia,
Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Dallas Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Spoleto Festival USA, Glimmerglass Festival, and Finnish National Opera. In concert he has sung with the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, NDR at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and Philharmonia Baroque, among others.
He has performed at many different types of venues including Carnegie Hall, Versailles, The Kennedy Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Sawdust, Minamiza Kyoto, Joe’s Pub, The Guggenheim, The Park Avenue Armory, and Madison Square Garden.
Costanzo works as a producer and curator in addition to performing, creating and producing the New York Philharmonic’s celebrated Bandwagon initiative during the Covid pandemic, as well as shows for The BBC Proms, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Opera Philadelphia, National Sawdust, Philharmonia Baroque, The Barnes Foundation, St. John The Divine, Princeton University, WQXR, The State Theater in Salzburg, Master Voices and Kabuki-Za Tokyo. To continue and expand these pursuits, he has received major support from the Mellon Foundation. He is a founding member of the American Modern Opera Company. In film, he played Francis in the Merchant Ivory feature, “A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries,” for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and sings in the recent feature film “She Came to Me” with Anne Hathaway. He also operatically launched the purple M&M in a national commercial.
Costanzo’s other awards include first place in the Operalia competition, a Grand Finals Winner of the 2009 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a George London Award, a career grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation, and the first countertenor to win First Place in the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCullom competition, where he also won the audience choice prize. He has also received a Sullivan Foundation Award, and won First Place in the Opera Index Competition, the National Opera Association Vocal Competition, and the Jensen Foundation Competition.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, where he has returned to teach, and received his Masters of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, where he now serves on the board of Trustees. He is also on the board of National Black Theater. As of June 2024, Costanzo is the new General Director and President of Opera Philadelphia.
FESTIVAL OF SONG 2
Paula Murrihy, MEZZO-SOPRANO | William Guanbo Su, BASS
Robert Tweten, PIANO
Sunday, August 4 | 4 PM | Scottish Rite Temple
Widmung
Aus den Östlichen Rosen
Die Blume der Ergebung
Jasminenstrauch
Schneeglöckchen
Warum willst du and’re fragen?
Liebst du um Schönheit
Liebst du um Schönheit
Paula Murrihy and Robert Tweten
Op. 25 #1
Robert Schumann
Op. 25 #25 (1810-1856)
Op. 83. #2
Op. 27 #4
Op. 79 #27
Op. 12 #11
Clara Schumann
Op. 12 #4 (1819-1896)
Op. 12 #4
Chansons de Don Quichotte Jacques Ibert
Chanson du Départ (1890-1962)
Chanson à Dulcinée
Chanson du Duc
Chanson de la mort
William Guanbo Su and Robert Tweten
Cabaret Songs
Benjamin Britten
Calypso (1913-1976)
Tell me the truth about love
Johnny Funeral Blues
Paula Murrihy and Robert Tweten
Let us Garlands Bring Gerald Finzi
I. Come away, come away death (1901-1956)
II. Who is Sylvia?
III. Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
IV. O Mistress Mine
V. It was a lover and his lass
William Guanbo Su and Robert Tweten
Festival of Song is presented through the generosity of Bruce Donnell.
Artists appear courtesy of The Santa Fe Opera.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
WILLIAM GUANBO SU
PAULA MURRIHY
Irish Mezzo-Soprano Paula Murrihy enjoys a busy career working at the highest level in both Europe and the US. Previously a member of Oper Frankfurt’s acclaimed ensemble, her many roles in Frankfurt included Dido Dido and Aeneas, Lazuli L’étoile, Octavian Der Rosenkavalier, Medoro Orlando Furioso, and creating the role of Carmen in Barrie Kosky’s iconic production, which she also reprised in Frankfurt for their 2020 revival. Paula received her Bachelor of Music from DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in Dublin before continuing her studies in North America at the New England Conservatory. She also participated in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program and as an apprentice at Santa Fe Opera.
This season, Paula makes her role and company debut as Prince Charmant Cendrillon at the Opéra de Paris. Elsewhere on the operatic stage, she returns to Santa Fe Opera as Octavian Der Rosenkavalier and reprises the role of Dejanira in Barrie Kosky’s Hercules at the Komische Oper Berlin, following her highly praised performance in the production premiere at Oper Frankfurt last season.
In concert, Paula sings Mozart Requiem in Chicago with Music of the Baroque conducted by Dame Jane Glover, Sandström’s The High Mass with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Ryan Bancroft, and Marguerite in a concert performance of Le Damnation de Faust with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.
Paula Murrihy
PAULA MURRIHY, PHOTO: BARBARA AUMUÌLLER
She also performs solo recitals, both at Oper Frankfurt alongside pianist and long-time collaborator Tanya Blaich, and at the Wigmore Hall, London. Next season’s highlights include the role of Fox Cunning Little Vixen at Opéra de Paris and Waitress in a new production of Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence at the Semperoper Dresden. Last season, Paula returned to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden to sing the role of Donna Elvira Don Giovanni directed by Kasper Holten, followed by the title role Carmen for her company debut at the Det Kongelige Teater Copenhagen. Her recent notable debuts include singing Komponist in Katie Mitchell’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, the title role Ariodante in a livestreamed concert performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, conducted by Christian Curnyn and for her house debut at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, her debut as Orfeo in a concert performance of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Opera North conducted by Laurence Cummings and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and her company debut at the Metropolitan Opera, as Stéphano Roméo et Juliette.
Further operatic highlights include Idamante in Peter Sellars’ production of Idomeneo for the Salzburg Festival, Ruggiero Alcina and Orlofsky Die Fledermaus for Santa Fe Opera, Nicklausse Les Contes d’Hoffmann conducted by Marc Minkowski and Dorabella Cosi fan tutte both at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, the title role in Fauré’s Pénélope for Frankfurt Opera, Sesto La Clemenza di Tito and Octavian Der Rosenkavalier for Dutch National Opera, Concepcion L’heure Espagnole and Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro for the Opernhaus Zürich, Countess of Essex in Britten’s Gloriana for Teatro Real Madrid and for English National Opera, Dido Dido and Aeneas for Los Angeles Opera, Octavian Der Rosenkavalier at Staatsoper Stuttgart and appearances in her native Ireland as Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle, title role Carmen and Octavian Der Rosenkavalier with Irish National Opera.
William Guanbo Su
Heralded by the New York Times for “musical taste, honest execution of Handelian ornaments and bel canto filigree, and a solid voice,” William Guanbo Su is a 2019 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Grand Finals winner.
In the 2023-24 season, he returns to the Metropolitan Opera as the Speaker in the company’s beloved English presentation of The Magic Flute as well as to Houston Grand Opera as the Bonze in Madama Butterfly. He makes company debuts with Seattle Opera as Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Santa Fe Opera as Masetto in Don Giovanni, and Utah Opera as Colline in La bohème. On the concert stage, he joins the American Symphony Orchestra as Simon in Handel’s Judas Maccabeus. Coming seasons see his company debuts with the Staatsoper Hamburg and Dallas Opera. Last season he sang his first performances of the Speaker in The Magic Flute in a return to the Metropolitan Opera as well as made further role debuts as Blitch in Susannah with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Colline in La bohème with Boston Lyric Opera, Alidoro in La Cenerentola with Opera Maine, and Bonze in Madama Butterfly at the Grand Tetons Music Festival. He also returned to Austin Opera as Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia.
His other recent performances include his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Jailer in Tosca as well as both Angelotti and the Jailer in the same title with Austin Opera. At the Aspen Music Festival, he sang his first performances of Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Garibaldo in Rodelinda.
He is a former member of the prestigious Studio of the Houston Grand Opera at which he sang Zuniga in Carmen, the First Officer in Dialogues des Carmélites, Second Armed Man in Die Zauberflöte—while also being responsible for Sarastro, Mandarin in Turandot—while also being responsible for Timur, and the Duke of Verona in Roméo et Juliette. He also sang the Usher in Rigoletto, but his scheduled performances of Sparafucile were cancelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. While a participant in the Académie Vocal Residence at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, he sang
She also performs solo recitals, both at Oper Frankfurt alongside pianist and long-time collaborator Tanya Blaich, and at the Wigmore Hall,
As an ambassador for Opera for Peace, he sang Verdi’s “O tu Palermo” from I vespri siciliani for that organization’s digital concert celebrating World Opera Day 2020. He is a former Gerdine Young Artist of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, at which he sang Count Ceprano in Rigoletto and covered Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro. He joined Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Lyric Unlimited for its production of Perla’s An American Dream. While at The Juilliard School, he sang the Commendatore in Don Giovanni and Pluton in Hippolyte et Aricie.
His performances of Handel’s Messiah with the Portland Baroque Orchestra and Beethoven’s Mass in C in the 2019-20 season were also cancelled due to the pandemic. He made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Cecilia Chorus of New York singing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and returned to the stage a year later for Handel’s Messiah with the same organization.
In addition to winning the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Grand Finals, Mr. Su won second prize in the Eleanor McCollum Competition at Houston Grand Opera. He won first prize in the Liederkranz Foundation’s Song/Lieder Competition in 2017 and, in 2018, received third prize in the Gerda Lissner Opera Competition. He received his Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and his Bachelor of Music Degree from the Manhattan School of Music. He completed further studies at the Franz Schubert Institute in Austria.
FESTIVAL OF SONG 3
Liv Redpath, SOPRANO | David Portillo, TENOR
Robert Tweten, PIANO
Sunday, August 11 | 4 PM | Scottish Rite Temple
Mädchenblumen
Op. 22
R. Strauss
I. Kornblumen (1864-1949)
II. Mohnblumen
III. Epheu
IV. Wasserrose
Liv Redpath and Robert Tweten
An die Ferne Geliebte
Op. 98
Ludwig van Beethoven
1. Auf die Hügel sitz ich spähend (1770-1827)
2. Wo die Berge so blau
3. Leichter Segler in den Höhen
4. Diese Wolken in den Höhen
5. Es kehret der Meihen, es blühet die Au
6. Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder
David Portillo and Robert Tweten
Hermit Songs
Samuel Barber
I. At Saint Patrick’s Purgatory (1920-1981)
II. Church Bell at Night
III. St. Ita’s Vision
IV. The Heavenly Banquet
V. The Crucifixion
VI. Sea Snatch
VII. Promiscuity
VIII. The Monk and His Cat
IX. The Praises of God
X. The Desire for Hermitage
Liv Redpath and Robert Tweten
Poemas en Forma de Canciones
Joaquín Turina
I. Dedicatoria (1882-1949)
II. Nunca olvida
III. Cantares
IV. Los dos miedos
V. Las locas por amor
David Portillo and Robert Tweten
Festival of Song is presented through the generosity of Bruce Donnell.
Artists appear courtesy of The Santa Fe Opera.
“Liv Redpath as Ophélie impresses with crystal-clear, razor-sharp coloratura, which demands a lot of vocal artistry in the madness scene. Playful, attractive and with an intense expression, she is an ideal partner for her Hamlet.”
—
Klassik Begeistert
“David Portillo’s clear, airy tenor was an ideal fit for the Chevalier de la Force, Blanche’s brother, colorful and light at its top.”
— New York Classical Review
DAVID PORTILLO, PHOTO: SIMON PAULY
LIV REDPATH
Liv Redpath
Hailed as possessing “such a radiant voice, effortless even in the highest register with breathtaking coloratura, the likes of which have not been heard for a long time” (Berliner Umschau), Liv Redpath is a leading soprano leggero who is quickly establishing herself in diverse operatic and symphonic repertoire around the world.
In 2023/24, Ms. Redpath debuted at Royal Opera House and Staatsoper Hamburg as Lucia di Lammermoor in productions by Katie Mitchell and Amélie Niermeyer, conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti and Lorenzo Passerini, respectively. She debuted at The Metropolitan Opera as Oscar in David Alden’s Un ballo in maschera, conducted by Carlo Rizzi, returning for Pamina in The Magic Flute. Ms. Redpath reprised Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for The Atlanta Opera, and spent the summer with Santa Fe Opera as Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier. She enjoyed concert collaborations with Kirill Petrenko and Berliner Philharmoniker on Schoenberg: Die Jakobsleiter, Harry Bicket and The English Concert on L’incorinazione di Poppea, Bernard Labadie and Orchestra of St. Luke’s on Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Daniel Harding and The Cleveland Orchestra on Mahler’s 4th Symphony, Federico Cortese and Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra on Strauss’ Brentano Lieder, François López-Ferrer and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on Fauré’s Requiem, as well as concerts at Wigmore Hall and The Church in Sag Harbor.
Highlights of previous seasons include Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl for their presentation of Icons on Inspiration with introduction by Julie Andrews; debuts with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in a program comprised of the Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël and Schubert’s Mass in G under Vasily Petrenko as well as the Bregenzer Festspiele as Woglinde in Das Rheingold with the Wiener Symphoniker led by Andrés Orozco-Estrada; a return to Edinburgh International Festival to sing Naiad and cover Zerbinetta in concert performances of Ariadne auf Naxos; her role and house debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin singing Marguerite de Valois in David Alden’s production of Les Huguenots under the baton of Alexander Vedernikov; Crobyle in concerts of Thaïs with Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis and recorded for release on the Chandos label, subsequently winning a 2021 Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year.
Ms. Redpath has been engaged by The Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Scottish Opera, New York Festival of Song, Wolf Trap Opera, Pacific Symphony, Tesserae Baroque, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Los Angeles Master Chorale. Conductors with whom she has collaborated include William Christie, James Levine, James Conlon, Emmanuel Villaume, Christophe Rousset, James Gaffigan, and Barbara Hannigan, as well as stage directors Tim Albery, Mark Lamos, James Robinson, Francesca Zambello, Paul Curran, Ed Berkley, John Neumeier, Omer Ben Seadia, Louisa Muller, and Thaddeus Strassberger. Her wide-ranging operatic repertoire includes Le nozze di Figaro, Hänsel und Gretel, Ariadne auf Naxos, Béatrice et Bénédict, Orphée et Eurydice, Dido and Aeneas, Cendrillon, Die Zauberflöte, Lakmé, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Die Fledermaus, Les mamelles de Tirésias, The Golden Cockerel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Candide, and L’enfant et les sortilèges. Her orchestral and chamber assignments have included Messiah (Handel), Choral Fantasy (Beethoven), Nelson Mass (Haydn), Mass in C major (Beethoven), Songs of Ascent(Kirchner), Requiem (Mozart), La resurrezione (Handel), String Quartet No. 2 (Schoenberg), Philomel (Babbitt), Gloria(Poulenc), and Hodie (Vaughan-Williams).
A graduate of Harvard University and The Juilliard School, Ms. Redpath is a former Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist with the Los Angeles Opera.
Praised by Opera News for “high notes with ease, singing with a luxuriant warm glow that seduced the ear as he bounded about the stage with abandon,” American tenor David Portillo has established himself as a leading classical singer of his generation. Projects for current and recent seasons include Tamino in The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera, Septimius in a new production of Theodora with Theater an der Wien, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier with Santa Fe Opera, Ferrando in Così fan tutte with The Dallas Opera, Pirro in Ermione opposite Angela Meade and Lawrence Brownlee with Washington Concert Opera, Nadir in The Pearl Fishers with Austin Opera, Tonio in La fille du regiment with Minnesota Opera, Nemorino in L’elisir d’Amore with Calgary Opera, Dr. Richardson in Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves with Detroit Opera, Hades in Eurydice with Boston Lyric Opera, Henry in Die schweigsame Frau with Bard Festival and Don Ottavio in Osaka, Japan. He joins the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel for a world tour of Beethoven’s Fidelio as Jacquino, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra for the Messiah and Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and select Mozart arias, and Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque as the title role in Handel’s Jephtha. In the 2021-2022 season, David performed Lurcanio in Ariodante with the Palau des les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, Spain, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Opéra de Lille and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with Pittsburgh Opera. An accomplished recitalist, David Portillo collaborated with pianist Craig Terry for appearances with Vocal Arts DC, Harris Theater and the Cleveland Art Song Festival.
In the 2020-2021 season, David Portillo performed the title role in a filmed version of Albert Herring with Minnesota Opera, originated the role of Jonathan Harker in the world premiere of John Corigliano and Marc Adamo’s Lord of Cries with Santa Fe Opera, gave a virtual recital with Valhalla Media Live and pianist Yasuko Oura, and was the tenor soloist in Bach’s B Minor Mass with Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In the 2019-2020 season, Mr. Portillo returned to the Metropolitan Opera to debut the role of Steuermann in a new production of Der fliegende Holländer, conducted by Valery Gergiev as well as Tamino in the English version of The Magic Flute, a role he repeated with the Washington National Opera.
David Portillo
Past seasons on the operatic stage include appearances at the Metropolitan Opera (Count Almaviva, Eduardo in The Exterminating Angel, Camille de Rosillon in The Merry Widow, Chevalier de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites, Jacquino in Fidelio), Lyric Opera of Chicago (David in Die Meistersinger, Arbace in Idomeneo, Trin in La fanciulla del West, Andres in Wozzeck), Houston Grand Opera (Tamino, Count Almaviva), Dallas Opera (Don Ottavio), Opera Australia (Ferrando in Così fan tutte), Washington National Opera (Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola), Opera Philadelphia (Don Ottavio, Dr. Richardson in Breaking the Waves), Glyndebourne Festival (Tamino, David in Die Meistersinger), Opera Theatre of St. Louis (Don Ottavio; Ferrando), Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Pedrillo in Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Pittsburgh Opera (Belmonte, Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Count Almaviva), San Diego Opera (Don Ramiro), Arizona Opera (Ralph Rackstraw, HMS Pinafore, Tonio), Palm Beach Opera (Count Almaviva, Ernesto in Don Pasquale), the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy (Ferdinand, The Tempest), and the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan (Gonzalve, L’heure espagnole).
Mr. Portillo has also made important European debuts in recent seasons, including the Wiener Staatsoper (Count Almaviva), Dutch National Opera (Pedrillo), Oper Frankfurt (Tamino), Bayerische Staatsoper (Pasquale, Orlando Paladino), The English Concert (Lurcanio in Ariodante), Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (Pedrillo, Lurcanio), and with Salzburg Festival (Don Gaspar in Donizetti’s La favorite).
With orchestra, David Portillo has appeared as the tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Los Angeles Master Chorale for Mozart’s Requiem with Grant Gershon, a solo orchestral program of Italian repertoire with the San Antonio Symphony and Sebastian Lang-Lessing, the Minnesota Orchestra for performances of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, the New York Choral Society for Tippett’s A Child of our Time at Carnegie Hall, Verdi’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Phoenix Symphony and Colorado Music Festival, and Haydn’s Creation with the Colorado Music Festival.
Robert Tweten
Robert Tweten has performed extensively as both a pianist and conductor throughout the USA and his native Canada, and currently holds the positions of Head of Music Staff for The Santa Fe Opera, and Music Director of Graduate Opera Studies for the New England Conservatory. The position, Head of Music Staff, was created by The Santa Fe Opera for Robert in 2000. He has been on the podium for a number of productions during his tenure, most recently conducting performances of Falstaff during the 2022 season.
Tweten has enjoyed a long relationship with Utah Opera/Symphony where he has conducted eighteen productions since his debut in 2005, and other companies he has collaborated with include the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Calgary Opera, Vancouver Opera, Florentine Opera, Opera San Antonio, Kentucky Opera, Edmonton Opera, Dayton Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, and Sarasota Opera.
Tweten’s recent projects have included conducting orchestral concerts with the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra, La Calisto, Die Fledermaus and La Bohème with NEC, as well as leading The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs and La Bohème for Utah Opera, and the North American premiere of Roberto Scarcella Perino’s, Furiosus at Merkin Hall in New York.
Equally at home as a pianist, Robert has performed throughout the world with many of the industry’s most prominent singers in venues such as London’s Wigmore Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Los Angeles’ Disney Hall, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, and the Salzburg Festival. Recent recitals include a four recital series for the inaugural season of the Sag Harbor Song Festival, of which he is Music Director. Upcoming performances include SHSF recitals with Teresa Perrotta, Erika Baikoff, Samantha Hankey, Duke Kim, Justin Austin and William Guanbo Su, as well as leading productions of Sweeney Todd for Utah Opera, Later the Same Evening and Susannah at NEC, and Rigoletto for Pacific Opera Victoria.
Festival of Song is presented through the generosity of Bruce Donnell.
Artists appear courtesy of The Santa Fe Opera.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
ROBERT TWETEN, PHOTO: TIRA HOWARD
PERFORMANCE SANTA FE PRESENTS
FESTIVAL OF SONG 3
ALEXANDER MALOFEEV
St. Francis Auditorium
Oct 28
Tickets on sale Aug.1
CONTEMPORARY WEST
DANCE THEATRE
The Lensic
Apr 5
Tickets on sale Sept. 1
KRISTIN CHENOWETH
The Lensic
Dec 21
Tickets on sale Aug. 15
ON THE GREEN
The Club at Las Campanas
June 21
EDUCATION RETROSPECTIVE
In close partnership with local education agencies, Performance Santa Fe’s award-winning education programs bring the vibrant world of music, dance, and theater to life for the young people of our community. These programs seek to enhance the role of the performing arts by inspiring greater awareness of their educational, cognitive, and emotional power.
By encouraging an active and experiential study of the arts, Performance Santa Fe advances the belief that all human beings are inherently creative. These programs are designed to build on that creativity by equipping schoolchildren with the skills necessary for a life-long engagement with the arts and an understanding of their essential contribution to enlightened citizenship.
Every year, we provide inspiring performances, innovative programs, and life-changing interaction with world-renowned performing artists to more than 3,000 students in 24 local schools. These programs serve as a catalyst for academic achievement, enriched creativity, mental well-being, and personal growth.
Performance Santa Fe offers all its education programs at no cost to participants, reflecting our mission to bring joy and enrichment to community members otherwise unable to access top-tier arts education. These programs are funded entirely by foundations, grants, and individual donors.
Performance Santa Fe offers discounts to its year-round performance season to students, educators, families, and patrons under 30.
NICOLA BENEDETTI MASTER CLASS, PHOTO: GABRIELLA MARKS
DANIEL ULBRICHT MASTER CLASS, PHOTO: GABRIELLA MARKS
JULIAN SANDS MASTER CLASS, PHOTO: GABRIELLA MARKS
PLANNED GIVING
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By including Performance Santa Fe in your estate plans through a charitable bequest, you will help propel Performance Santa Fe into a bright and promising future. With a steadfast commitment to excellence in the performing arts, Performance Santa Fe has brought joy and enrichment to the community for over 88 years. Our year-round programs showcase internationally recognized artists in various venues throughout Santa Fe, while also providing invaluable free education programs to thousands of local students.
When you choose to support Performance Santa Fe through a charitable bequest, you contribute to the long-term financial stability of our organization. When you give to Performance Santa Fe you:
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Join the Legacy Society, honoring those who have chosen to remember us in their estate planning.
If you are interested in exploring the possibility of a charitable bequest or any other form of planned giving, we kindly request you to reach out to John D. Jones, at development@performancesantafe.org. If you have already included PSFF in your estate planning, please let us know so we can thank you and acknowledge you as a Legacy Society member.
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MARK MORRIS MASTER CLASS, PHOTO: GABRIELLA MARKS
“Paula Murrihy is fantastic. With a beautiful, flattering soprano, she sings about her fate and the hope that a ship with her hero will appear on the horizon. Indeed, she acts as a proud pityful woman who can delight with a blossoming beautiful song at any time”
— Online Merker
PAULA MURRIHY
As we celebrate our 88 year legacy, the core of our success lies in our relationships with our musicians, managers, composers, teachers, donors, sponsors, volunteers and you, our audience and community. We will be here for you for the next 88 years as we continue to bring extraordinary experiences to our City Different with the best in music, dance and theater from across the globe. Thank you for celebrating with us and always helping us make the steps to support our community.
We hope you enjoy our 88th season.
ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO
