Performance Santa Fe 2022 Gala

PRESENTING SPONSOR: Garcia Automotive Group


Monday, June 13 | 5:30 p.m.
The Eldorado Hotel & Spa
To purchase tickets, call 505 984 8759

DON’T THROW AWAY YOUR SHOT…

… to join in on an exclusive, star-studded evening—Performance Santa Fe’s annual Gala. Meet the star of Broadway’s Hamilton, Miguel Cervantes! Enjoy a gourmet dinner! Bid on fantastic live-auction items! And end the evening sitting back in a premium seat at Miguel’s one-of-a-kind show at the Lensic.


As New Mexico’s longest running presenting arts organization, we invite you to celebrate our passion for delivering courageous, world-class performing arts education to Santa Fe’s youth. Take a starring role! Keep our dream alive for another 85 years (and beyond)!


5:30 p.m. Award-winning three-course dinner & live performance by the NMSA Jazz Ensemble
7:00 p.m. Fabulous live auction items featuring auctioneer extraordinaire Paul Margetson (see auction items below)
8:00 p.m. Miguel Cervantes of Hamilton fame presents A NIGHT WITH HAMILTON at the Lensic Performing Arts Center

Click here for more information about A NIGHT WITH HAMILTON.


2022 Gala Live Auction Items


#1 Enchanting Emerald Isle

6 Night Getaway in Ireland including stays in Dublin, Ennis, & Killarney, Historic Castle Overnight Stay, Rental Car, Guinness Storehouse VIP Tickets, Gap of Dunloe, Inis Oirr & Cliffs of Moher Excursions for 2

Escape the run of the mill and become enchanted with a captivating journey through Ireland, where you will explore pre-historic forts, navigate pristine lakes and discover hidden gems on this guided adventure through Gaelic culture.

This Experience Includes:

• Cassidys Hotel, Dublin – night 1

• The Old Ground Hotel, Ennis – nights 2 & 3

• Randles Court Hotel, Killarney – nights 4 & 5

• Clontarf Castle Hotel, Dublin – night 6 with 3-course dinner for 2

• Daily breakfast for 2

• Full day tour for 2 to Inis Oirr and Cliffs of Moher

• Full day tour for 2 on the Gap of Dunloe

• 2 VIP tickets to the Guinness Storehouse

• 6-day rental of a manual (stick shift) car

• Winspire booking & concierge service


#2 Historic Sanctuary in the City

3-Night Stay in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico with 3-Course Dinner for 2 at Casa de Sierra Nevada

San Miguel de Allende is an adventure for the senses and at the very center of this vibrant city lies a safe haven that’s both connected to the locale and is its own private sanctuary. Swing open the ancient, wooden front doors and the fiesta outside gives way to a siesta-like calm. Water fountains and blooming flowerpots dot the cluster of heritage mansions that make up the hotel.  A large pool, fringed with lush foliage and plants, provides the perfect place to cool off. 17th- and 18th-century buildings reveal inner courtyards, terraces, and gardens. Here, history is woven into every stucco wall, tiled bath, and curved ceiling, all balanced with modern luxuries.

This Experience Includes:

• 3-night stay at Casa de Sierra Nevada, a Belmond Hotel, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

• 3-course dinner with wine

• Daily breakfast for 2

• Winspire booking & concierge service


#3 The Iconic New York Experience

4-Night Stay at The Plaza Hotel for 2, Orchestra tickets to Hamilton, tickets to the New York City Ballet

Striking the balance between its storied past and limitless future, The Plaza Hotel in New York City – the ultimate luxury lifestyle destination – has emerged from a recent $400 million transformation to reflect a new and contemporary spirit. While traditions remain, such as the opulent grandeur of the Beaux Arts décor and the superb ambience of the legendary Oak Room and Oak Bar, exciting new offerings at The Plaza Hotel New York include the elegant Champagne Bar and stylish Rose Club, as well as an interior Tranquility Garden with reflecting pools, elaborate lighting and exotic foliage.

This Experience Includes:

• 4-night stay in a standard room (1 king or 1 queen bed) at The Plaza, New York

• Daily breakfast for 2

• Pre-show dinner with two orchestra seats to Hamilton on Broadway

• A private meet and greet with the star of Hamilton, Miguel Cervantes

• Two tickets to the NYC Ballet

• A private meet and greet with Daniel Ulbricht 

• Winspire booking & concierge service


#4 Metropolitan Opera Extravaganza

Lincoln Center Private Tour, Pre-Show Dinner, Orchestra Seats, 2 Night Stay at The Plaza for 2

The Metropolitan Opera, founded in 1880, is a prized jewel of New York City’s cultural treasures and sitting in the audience is a stellar experience.  Each season the Met stages more than 200 opera performances and the lineups are an eclectic mix of familiar favorites and adventurous picks, classic stagings and the avante garde. The Met also has displays and exhibits scattered through the entire house; walk around and take a glance at the galleries on the lower level or inspect some costumes up close on the grand tier. People-watching is just as much a spectacle, and an opera tradition, as the story unfolding onstage.

This Experience Includes:

• 2 orchestra seats to an opera of your choice at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York

• Private tour of Lincoln Center

• Pre-opera three-course dinner at the elegant Grand Tier restaurant at Lincoln Center

• 2-night stay in a standard guest room at The Plaza, New York

• Winspire booking & concierge service


#5 Hidden Burgundy

Week Stay at Burgundy Farmhouse for a Maximum of 10

Explore Hidden Burgundy using Chef Katherine’s fabulous farmhouse as your base.Includes a welcome dinner, private wine tasting, hands on cooking class experience during your stay with an extra bonus Chocolate workshop in the village of Flavigny where the film ‘Chocolat’ was made in your hostesses New French Bakery!

Katherine Frelon, founder of this luxury farmhouse, Chef, and author of ‘Shop, Cook, Eat’ invites you to experience exclusive visits into vineyards of the most prestigious domaines in Burgundy and enjoy Gourmet Cooking in her magnificent  purpose built kitchen.

Nestled in the heart of Hidden Burgundy this luxury rental property sleeps 10 comfortably.With a vast inviting interior, a warm heated pool and outside dinning it is the perfect place to relax and enjoy a vacation with family and friends.

This Experience Includes:

• 1-week stay for up to 10

• Welcome dinner

• Chef ’s kitchen, a warm heated pool and outside dining

• Winspire booking & concierge service


#6 Trout Stalker Ranch

Two night stay at the Trout Stalker Ranch in Chama.

High in the Southern Rockies of Northern New Mexico, Trout Stalker Ranch rejuvenates the land while providing a refuge for guests to rejuvenate their spirits. 

This Experience Includes:

• 2-night stay in one of the modern cabins with two bedrooms. 
The stay would need  to be reserved Monday-Thursday.

• Dinner for two at the Chama Restaurant 

• Gift certificate to ride the Cumbres & Toltec Railroad for two. Deluxe Class tickets good during the 2022 season through September 1, 2022.