The most striking effect of the Santa Fe Opera’s production of “Orfeo” comes courtesy of the city. Verdant colors and robust movement match the Monteverdi-Muhly score.
Desert-bright weather in the southwestern United States has long inspired architecture that opens itself to the land and the sky. Pueblo cliff dwellers carved shelters into walls of rock; Spanish settlers wrapped houses around courtyards that became, in the words of the pioneering California architect Irving Gill, “outdoor living rooms.” In a similar spirit, Los Angeles modernists like R. M. Schindler and Richard Neutra designed semitransparent homes with light frames and sliding doors.
The immediate success of Santa Fe Opera—Stravinsky adored it and came back five more times—set the pace for what is now a bustling summer-opera scene in the United States. Glimmerglass, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and Opera Saratoga followed its lead. The resulting extension of the season has been a huge boon to working singers, not to mention music lovers with ordinary incomes. The time-slowing beauty of the setting is an extravagant bonus.
Yuval Sharon directs the show, employing set designs by the artist-architects Alex Schweder and Matthew Johnson. The most striking effect comes courtesy of Santa Fe: at the outset, the allegorical figure of La Musica is sitting in a hospital bed atop a domelike hill, watching the sun go down over distant mountains.
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