Stay tuned.Ĭostume sketch for Lord of Cries. “I’m hoping we can go forward with the season announcement for 2022 this coming spring, in the normal pattern of announcing about 14 months out,” Meya says. The dates of those future performances postponed from 2020 will be announced later. We had already built three of these (2020) productions. That created a little bit of a domino effect, because we had those plans laid out. “We were able to save all five projects by slotting them into ‘22 and ‘23.

“Certainly verbally, we had agreements with all of the artists for that season.”Īll of the productions planned for 2020 have been moved to 2022 or ‘23, including the world premiere of M Butterfly by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang, the return of Wagner to the SFO with Tristan und Isolde, and the company’s first production ever of Dvořák’s Rusalka. “Because we wanted to preserve all of these projects, we had to leapfrog over 2021,” Meya says. “Most of the contracts had been issued,” Meya explains. It was important to preserve as much of the 2021 schedule as possible because of contractual commitments by the SFO. The open-air “lobby” of the Santa Fe Opera.

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