Events

For the past five years, Emily Schoen, the founder of Schoen Movement Company, has been taking her sinuous, exuberant performances to unlikely spaces: parks, streets, and breweries.Experience an exhilaratingly unique, on-site performance at Rufina Taproom. Prepare for athleticism, humor, and jaw-dropping innovation!

A Benefit for Indigenous Solutions, Tewa Women United & the Friendship Club. For more than five decades, legendary indigenous singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie has reinvented herself, creating songs that reveal new shades of an artist already revered as a pioneer.

Rufus Wainwright, one of the great male vocalists, composers, and songwriters of his generation, has released eight studio albums, three DVDs, and three live albums. He has collaborated with artists ranging from Elton John, David Byrne, Robbie Williams Mark Ronson, Joni Mitchell to Burt Bacharach.

Two of opera’s most thrilling dramatic sopranos, Christine Goerke and Nina Stemme, reprise their fierce portrayals of the title princess. Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Franco Zeffirelli’s dazzling production of Puccini’s final masterpiece.

Berlioz Overture to Beatrice and Benedict Daugherty Fire & Blood, Violin Concerto Ida Kavafian, Violin Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition.

Mari Boine’s highly rhythmic songs are rooted in the shamanistic musical traditions of the Sámi of northern Scandinavia. She takes the wordless, yodeling-like vocal style of yoik (or joik) and infuses jazz, rock, and other ethnic elements, creating a musical mix that cuts to your soul.

Iconic actress Jane Seymour will receive the SFIFF Lifetime Achievement Award before introducing the film Somewhere in Time (1980).

Revered actress Tantoo Cardinal will receive the SFIFF Lifetime Achievement Award before introducing the film Falls Around Her (2018).

After receiving critical raves for his first two studio releases on Lost Highway Records, 2007's Mescalito and 2009's Roadhouse Sun, Bingham went on to collaborate with Grammy-winning producer T Bone Burnett on the soundtrack for the film Crazy Heart, shot here in Santa Fe.

Great Art on Screen - Gauguin in Tahiti: Paradise Lost traces the legendary life story of Paul Gauguin who left France for Tahiti, feverishly in search of deep immersions into lush nature, for feelings, visions and colors, ever purer and brighter.

Exhilarating soprano Lisette Oropesa stars as the irresistible title character, the tragic beauty who yearns for the finer things in life, in Laurent Pelly’s revealing production. Tenor Michael Fabiano is the besotted Chevalier des Grieux, whose desperate love for Manon proves their undoing.

Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun, by composer Augusta Read Thomas and librettist Leslie Dunton-Downer, follows the galactic mishaps caused by the title character, Sweet Potato, and a journey to set things back on course. Featuring a cast that includes beatbox artist Nicole Paris, this work explores opera’s ability to intersect with other art forms, while also offering contemporary storytelling for today’s audiences.