Press Releases
Is there a better way to begin a new year than with the classical world’s magnum opus?
Performance Santa Fe presents Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Ever since its momentous 1824 premiere, the Ninth has been a hymn for all humanity, an anthem of protest, a celebration of freedom, and a song of joy. Tens of ...
“Surpassing brilliance” (Radio Bremen) and “deep musicality” (Classics Today) help to make the season bright!
Performance Santa Fe’s Christmas Eve orchestra concert will feature pianist Claire Huangci. Since beginning her international career at the age of 9, pianist Claire Huangci has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony, the Moscow Radio Symphony, and ...
The most popular of satires—it never could be missed!
Performance Santa Fe presents its annual free Family Opera, showcasing PSF EPIK Artists and professional opera singers!
Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado has been one of the most-performed musical theater works of all time since its 672-performance opening run in 1885. The first ...
Performance Santa Fe presents the world’s greatest a cappella group in a holiday concert!
Since 1968 at King’s College, Cambridge, this “remarkable” (The Scotland Herald) vocal sextet has been dazzling the world with traditional choral music as well as innovative arrangements of everything from big band tunes to Paul McCartney. As The Washington Post ...
“The most perfect piano playing conceivable.” (The Guardian)
Performance Santa Fe presents pianist Stephen Hough. When surveying Stephen Hough’s career, the most appropriate question is “where to begin?” The British Hough was the first classical performing artist to win a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He has played in 25 BBC Proms, became Commander of the ...
The rhythms that rocked the world, right here in Santa Fe!
Several years ago, seven of Cuba’s best musicians formed Asere (“I salute you” in Cuban Spanish), an acoustic band “carefully balancing a respect for the traditions of Son…with unexpected new influences.” (The Guardian) Son, the 16th-century ancestor to salsa music among other styles, ...
At the end of the 2016-17 season, Joe Illick will step down from his role as Artistic Director of Performance Santa Fe.
Illick was hired in 2007 to bring new life to Performance Santa Fe (then called the Santa Fe Concert Association), and has achieved that result with great success during his decade-long tenure. The ...
Performance Santa Fe presents the Shanghai Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China.
The beauty of movement, music, and color come to life!
Founded in 1959, the Shanghai Acrobats has become one of China’s premier acrobatic troupes, often winning medals at international circus festivals. The company, which includes trampoline artists, aerial acrobats, jugglers, contortionists, and ...
Performance Santa Fe presents two evenings of mind-bending artistry and athleticism!
The Stars of American Ballet, described as “stunning” and “great” by the Santa Fe New Mexican, was founded by “dazzling” (The Observer) New York City Ballet principal dancer Daniel Ulbricht. The troupe comprises top talent from the NYCB and other well-know ballet companies.
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Performance Santa Fe presents Classics and Cabaret from an incredible young star!
The last time Leah Crocetto came to Santa Fe, critics hailed her “precisely articulated passagework and vivid, big-voiced authority” (Santa Fe Reporter) as “gleaming” (The New York Times). That performance, as Anna in Maometto II, helped catapult her to international fame. Since ...
