04-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
Santa Fe Opera Review: The Fresh in the Familiar
Santa Fe, N.M.
This summer's Santa Fe Opera season, which runs through Aug. 23, skews toward standard repertoire, but there were surprises within that narrow compass. Director Melly Still gave Wagner's 'Die Walküre' a feminist gloss: Its women see clearly, while Wotan's betrayal of his children, however agonizing and supposedly for the greater good, is the inevitable result of his lust for power.
