Thoroughly Delightful

MARIA NOCKIN visits Santa Fe Opera
to experience all of the company's 2014 productions

Santa Fe Opera presented Beethoven's Fidelio for the first time in 2014. This writer saw it on 5 August. Since the sides of the opera house are open, the audience watched the sun redden the low hanging clouds and set below the Sangre de Cristo mountains while Chief Conductor Harry Bicket led the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra in the rousing overture. At the same time Alex Penda as the title character readied herself for the ordeal to come...