Events

New Year’s Eve at The Lensic is a Santa Fe holiday tradition! Celebrate the final hours of 2021 with longtime Santa Fean Joe Illick, music director and principal conductor of the Fort Worth Opera, leading an all-star orchestra with violin Soloist, Augustin Hadelich.

Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cendrillon is presented with an all-new English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess.

Four-time Grammy Award-winning new music ensemble Eighth Blackbird makes its Santa Fe debut with an eclectic program of career highlights spanning 25 years.

The Santa Fe Symphony is proud to partner with a consortium of orchestras and universities across the United States to co-commission the JUNO Award-winning composer Vivian Fung and her Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, written for classical trumpeter and Gold Medal Global Music Award winner Mary Elizabeth Bowden.

After more than forty years of music making, the pioneering, Louisiana-born artist has returned to the gritty blues foundation that first inspired her as a young singer-songwriter in the late 1970s

With a million tickets sold in more than 50 countries, Piaf! The Show, a musical celebration of the life and music of the legendary chanteuse Edith Piaf, makes its way to Santa Fe as part of an extended world tour.

This show has been cancelled. We will do our best to reschedule it during the 2022-23 season.

Tony Award¬–winning director Bartlett Sher creates a bold new take on Verdi’s timeless tragedy, resetting the opera’s action in 1920s Europe, with Art Deco sets by Michael Yeargan and elegant costumes by Catherine Zuber.

David Felberg conducts a concert of Mozart and Mendelssohn, along with the premiere of The History of Red. Composed by Reena Esmail with text by poet Linda Hogan, this new work was initiated by and will feature soprano Kathryn Mueller.

The irrefutable heiress to the "Big Three" — Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Ella Fitzgerald — Cécile McLorin Salvant has been making waves in the jazz world since she won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2010.

A Finn, a Frenchwoman, a Welshman and an Englishman meet up in London to play string quartets and then take the world by storm.

Join The Symphony for a musical encounter featuring the ethereal blue cathedral by acclaimed female composer Jennifer Higdon and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Christopher Rouse’s explosive and passionate Flute Concerto, featuring The Symphony’s very own Principal Flutist Jesse Tatum plus Dvořák’s masterful Eighth Symphony.