Get yourself ready for the five fabuous productions of the Santa Fe Opera’s 2026 Season with Opera Basics!

Wondering how plot, character, music, costumes, props, staging, and lighting go together to make Opera magic? Join us in Santa Fe or Placitas to deepen your experience and understanding of opera with Opera Basics! Opera Basics is a series of five free, informative talks that will introduce you to the building blocks of opera while previewing the five productions of the Santa Fe Opera's 2026 Season.

This season, the series will feature Oliver Prezant and two new presenters: oboist and UNM faculty emeritus Kevin Vigneau, who will be speaking on Handel’s Rodelinda, and KHFM radio host Alexis Corbin, who will be speaking about Picker’s Lili Elbe.

In Santa Fe: Five Tuesday Evenings from 6–7:30 p.m.
In Placitas: Five Saturday Afternoons from 2–3:30 p.m.*
*Presented in partnership with the Placitas Artist Series

FIRST UP:

Madama Butterflyby Giacomo Puccini
with Oliver Prezant
Placitas: Saturday, April 11, from 2–3:30 pm
Las Placitas Presbyterian Church
7 Paseo De San Antonio Road

ADMISSION IS FREE
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Seating is first come, first served.

Opera Basics is a presentation of the Santa Fe Opera.