![]() ![]() The great summer festivals lure you to a particular place with the promise that you will see things that are worth your while. “I’ll say, ‘What did you see?’ and they say, ‘Well, you know, I can’t really remember, but I know there was a great sunset that night.” MacKay’s not complaining: He is eager to make opera an experience for everyone, whether it’s the sunsets or the music that bring people back. “People will say to me, I haven’t been to the opera for a few years, but I just loved it when I went,” he says. Indeed, says Charles MacKay, the Santa Fe Opera’s general director, for some people, the setting outweighs the production. The proscenium is open at the back to allow a natural pageant of cloud and wind, sunset and the occasional thunderstorm to function - if a given stage director will allow it - as part of the drama. Below this, warm adobe walls gently nudge the open air into the shapes of opera-house tradition, delineating lobbies and gathering places and, of course, the auditorium, its 2,200 seats now sheltered by the roof but still exposed to the elements on the sides. Beams and cables hold up its roof like the top of a tent, poised for flight. ![]() The Santa Fe Opera sits like a shining white cloud in the red hills a few miles north of Santa Fe. ![]()
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