“An adventurous, fiercely talented choir…a pristine sound. But there’s also urgency in it; a sense of searching; always a reason behind the gorgeousness.”
–The New York Times
Presented in conjunction with Santa Fe Desert Chorale and the Santa Fe Opera
Donald Nally is responsible for imagining, programming, commissioning, and conducting at The Crossing, which has been nominated for five Grammy Awards for Best Choral Performance in the last four years, winning two. He’ll play selected works for us to listen to together, and then talk with the visionary theater and opera director Peter Sellars and with Living Room participants about each one.
Online Listening Party: 7pm (MDT) Tuesday, April 21
with Donald Nally and hosted by Peter Sellars
We will provide a Zoom link prior to this event.
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“An adventurous, fiercely talented choir…a pristine sound. But there’s also urgency in it; a sense of searching; always a reason behind the gorgeousness.”
–The New York Times
Presented in conjunction with Santa Fe Desert Chorale and the Santa Fe Opera
Donald Nally is responsible for imagining, programming, commissioning, and conducting at The Crossing, which has been nominated for five Grammy Awards for Best Choral Performance in the last four years, winning two. He’ll play selected works for us to listen to together, and then talk with the visionary theater and opera director Peter Sellars and with Living Room participants about each one.
About the speaker: The John W. Beattie Chair of Music at Northwestern University, Donald Nally was the American Composers Forum 2017 Champion of New Music, and has collaborated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, Mostly Mozart, and many others, and was music director of David Lang’s 1000-voice Mile Long Opera on the High Line in Manhattan.
About the host:Opera, theater, and festival director Peter Sellars has gained renown worldwide for his groundbreaking and transformative interpretations of artistic masterpieces and collaborative projects with an extraordinary range of creative artists across three decades. Whether it is Bach, Mozart, Handel, Shakespeare, Sophocles, or the 16th -century Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu, Peter Sellars strikes a universal chord with audiences, engaging and illuminating contemporary social and political issues. His Doctor Atomic production was a highlight of the Santa Fe Opera’s 2018 season.
