Events

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Folklorico Recital 2026
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, ASFB, Aspen, Folklorico, Ballet, Recital, Children
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Folklorico Recital 2026

Date and time: Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Folklórico students take the stage for their annual recital, celebrating Mexican folkloric dance with colorful costumes, lively music, and a year of dedication.

El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
El Ultimo Sueno de Frida y Diego
The Lensic and Santa Fe Opera

El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

Date and time: Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

The Metropolitan Opera’s season closes with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

2026 Lensic Gala
Lensic

2026 Lensic Gala

Date and time: Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

The Lensic’s annual fundraiser for arts education returns! We’re embarking on a space voyage to support the 14,000+ kids in New Mexico whose futures are made astronomically brighter with access to the Lensic’s free arts education programs.

The American Revolution and the Survival of Native Nations
School for Advanced Research

The American Revolution and the Survival of Native Nations

Date and time: Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

The American Revolution and the creation of the U.S. brought unprecedented challenges to Indigenous lives, land, and sovereignty in North America.

MOMIX
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet presents

MOMIX

Date and time: Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

Audience favorite MOMIX returns with Botanica Season 2, a dazzling celebration of nature where illusion, athleticism, and striking imagery transform dancers into a dreamlike world set to an eclectic score.

Chris Botti
Chris Botti, Jazz Music, Lensic
Lensic

Chris Botti

Date and time: Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

Grammy-winning trumpeter Chris Botti has been one of the most popular instrumentalists in the world for nearly three decades.

BODYTRAFFIC
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet presents

BODYTRAFFIC

Date and time: Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

Celebrate 20 years of Los Angeles–based BODYTRAFFIC, whose electrifying dancers and genre-spanning repertoire shine in a legacy program featuring Schachmatt (Checkmate), where a giant chessboard becomes a playful theatrical stage.

Complexions Contemporary Ballet
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet presents

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Date and time: Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

Complexions Contemporary Ballet delivers electrifying contemporary ballet, from Beethoven Concerto to the high-energy Love Rocks, plus the Western debut of Imagine Joy, commissioned by Aspen Santa Fe Ballet.

Snarky Puppy
Lensic

Snarky Puppy

Date and time: Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

Five-time Grammy-winning collective Snarky Puppy plays a wide array of influences including funk, rhythm & blues, hard rock, classic soul, modern gospel, new tech, fusion, and jazz.

Julian Lage Quartet
Lensic

Julian Lage Quartet

Date and time: Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

Hailed as one of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation and “highest category of improvising musicians" (New Yorker), Julian Lage performs with Jorge Roeder, Kenny Wollesen, and John Medeski.

Maria Bamford
Emporium Presents

Maria Bamford

Date and time: Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

Maria Bamford is a stand-up comedian, actor, and New York Times bestselling author with her memoir Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult.

The Buena Vista Orchestra
Buena Vista Orchestra, The Lensic, Lensic 360
Lensic

The Buena Vista Orchestra

Date and time: Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

The Buena Vista Social Orchestra is the world's foremost Cuban music repertory ensemble, featuring a lineup of musicians from groups like The Buena Vista Social Club and AfroCuban All Stars.