Seven New Productions, Including a World Premiere, a Met Premiere, and the Complete Ring Cycle,
James Levine conducts the final two installments of Robert Lepage’s production of the Ring: Siegfried and Götterdämmerung; complete cycles scheduled for April and May 2012

 View the Season Trailer here

The season opens with the first-ever Met performance of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, starring Anna Netrebko in the first of two new productions she sings this season; Laurent Pelly’s production of Manon follows in April

The world premiere of The Enchanted Island, a pastiche of Baroque music and Shakespearean comedy, opens on New Year’s Eve

Tony Award-winning stage directors Michael Grandage and Des McAnuff make their Met debuts with new productions of Don Giovanni and Faust In its sixth season, The Met: Live in HD series will feature 11 live transmissions

The 2011 – 2012 Line-up
Anna Bolena – Gaetano Donizetti October 15, 2011, 11 AM - Run Time: 250 minutes
Don Giovanni – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart October 29, 2011, 11 AM - Run Time: 230 minutes
Siegfried – Richard Wagner November 5, 2011, 10 AM - Run Time: 351 minutes
Satyagraha – Phillip Glass November 19, 2011, 11 AM - Run Time: 248 minutes
Rodelinda – George Frideric Handel December 3, 2011, 10:30 AM - Run Time: 255 minutes
Faust – Charles Gounod December 10, 2011, 11 AM - Run Time: 255 minutes
The Enchanted Island – Various January 21, 2012, 11 AM - Run Time: 210 minutes
Götterdämmerung – Richard Wagner February 11, 2012, 10 AM - Run Time: 374 minutes
Ernani – Giuseppe Verdi February 25, 2012, 11 AM - Run Time: 229 minutes
Manon – Jules Massenet April 7, 2012, 10 AM - Run Time: 243 minutes
La Traviata – Giuseppe Verdi April 14, 2012, 11 AM - Run Time: 187

Tickets are $20 General Admission, $17 for TCA Members, $10 for children under 18 and students. Season tickets can be purchased for $200 General Admission and $170 for TCA members. Tickets go on sale for Metropolitan Opera Members on Friday, August 19, 2011, for TCA Members on Friday, August 25, 2011 and General Admission on Monday August 29, 2011. You can purchase tickets or find more information by calling the TCA office at 575-758-2052 or by going to our website; tcataos.org.

Donizetti’s Anna Bolena – New Production
October 15, 2011
Anna Netrebko opens the Met season with her portrayal of the ill-fated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera’s greatest mad scenes in a production that also stars El?na Garan?a as her rival, Jane Seymour, and Ildar Abdrazakov as Henry VIII. Marco Armiliato conducts.
 

Donizetti’s AnnaMozart’s Don Giovanni – New Production
October 29, 2011
Mariusz Kwiecien brings his youthful and sensual interpretation of Mozart’s timeless anti-hero to the Met for the first time, under the direction of Tony Award®-winning director Michael Grandage and with James Levine conducting. A troupe of refined Mozartians appears in this new production, including Marina Rebeka, Barbara Frittoli, Isabel Leonard, Matthew Polenzani, Ramón Vargas, and John Relyea. Gerald Finley steps into the title role later in the season, and Andrew Davis also conducts.

Wagners’s Siegfried– New Production
November 5, 2011
In part three of the Ring, Wagner’s cosmic vision focuses on his hero’s early conquests, while Robert Lepage’s revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest. Gary Lehman sings the title role and Deborah Voigt’s Brünnhilde is his prize. Bryn Terfel is the Wanderer. James Levine conducts.

Glass’s Satyagraha
November 19, 2011
The Met’s visually extravagant production is back for an encore engagement. Richard Croft (right) once again is Gandhi in Philip Glass’s unforgettable opera, which the Washington Post calls “a profound and beautiful work of theater.”

Handel’s Rodelinda
December 3, 2011
Sensational in the 2004 Met premiere of Stephen Wadsworth’s much-heralded production, Renée Fleming
reprises the title role. She’s joined by Stephanie Blythe and countertenor Andreas Scholl, and Baroque specialist Harry Bicket conducts

Gounod’s Faust– New Production
December 10, 2011
With Jonas Kaufmann in the title role, René Pape as the devil, and Angela Gheorghiu as Marguerite, Gounod’s classic retelling of the Faust legend couldn’t be better served. Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff updates the story to the first half of the 20th century with a production that won praise in London last season. A later run features another first-tier Faust cast: Roberto Alagna, Joseph Calleja, Marina Poplavskaya, and Ferruccio Furlanetto. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts on the heels of his Don Carlo success.

The Enchanted Island– New Production
January 21, 2012
Inspired by the musical pastiches and masques of the 18th century, the Met presents an original Baroque fantasy, featuring a who’s who of Baroque stars led by eminent conductor William Christie. With music by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others, the new libretto by Jeremy Sams combines elements of The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. David Daniels is Prospero, Joyce DiDonato is Sycorax, Danielle de Niese is Ariel, Luca Pisaroni is Caliban, and Plácido Domingo makesa special appearance as Neptune. Lisette Oropesa and Anthony Roth Costanzo also star. This dazzling production is directed and designed by Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch (Satyagraha and the Met’s 125th Anniversary Gala).

Wagner’s Götterdämmerung
February 11, 2012
With its cataclysmic climax, the Met’s new Ring cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Gary Lehman is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. James Levine conducts.

Verdi’s Ernani
February 25, 2012
Angela Meade takes center stage in Verdi’s thrilling early gem. Salvatore Licitra is her mismatched lover, and all-star Verdians Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Ferruccio Furlanetto round out the cast.

Massenet’s Manon– New Production
April 7, 2012
Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.
 

Verdi’s La Traviata
April 14, 2012
Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.
 

Please join us for a Reception, March 23, 4-6 pm
Paintings and Sculpture
Parks Gallery
March 24 to April 22, 2012
110 A Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos
(No Reception)

For more than 30 years, Melissa Zink’s art was fueled by her great love of books. From the sculptural ceramic tableaus of the late 1970s and early ‘80s, to trompe l’oeil paintings of the early ‘90s, the bronzes, some of them heroic, of the last decade, and her most recent work which combined sculpture and painting with immaculate mixed media construction, Zink was on a restless quest for more accurate and satisfying expressions of what she has termed “the book experience.”

The quest ended with her death in July, 2009, at the age of 77. She left a rich body of work which the gallery will continue to represent.

Also visit the comprehensive website about Melissa Zink's career here: www.melissazink.com

Join us for a screening of the live production of the National Theatre London "She Stoops to Conquer" By Oliver Goldsmith
April 6 & 13 at 7 PM
Running Time: 3 hours (estimate) including host introduction and one 20 minute intermission (10 minutes of programming; 10 minutes of countdown clock)

To come to my house, to call for what he likes, toturn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, to order his servants to get drunk, and then to tell me, “This house is mine, sir”. By all that’s impudent it makes me laugh.

Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal’s son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he’s mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he’s a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle’s indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle’s appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.

This little barmaid though runs in my head most strangely, and drives out the absurdities of all therest of the family. She’s mine, she must be mine, or I’m greatly mistaken.

One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.

Ticket prices are $12 for TCA members, $15 for the general public and $10 for students18 and under. Tickets may be purchased by calling the TCA office at 575-758-2052 or at the box office
 

Massenet’s Manon– New Production - Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.

Individual opera ticket prices are $17 for TCA members, $20 for the general public and $10 for students under 18. Tickets may be purchased by calling the TCA office at 575-758-2052 or at the box office.
The Met: Live in HD at the TCA is underwritten by: KRZA Community Radio, KKIT/KVOT - DMC Braodcasting and the Taos Opera Guild

Join us for a screening of the live production of the National Theatre London "She Stoops to Conquer" By Oliver Goldsmith
April 6 & 13 at 7 PM
Running Time: 3 hours (estimate) including host introduction and one 20 minute intermission (10 minutes of programming; 10 minutes of countdown clock)

To come to my house, to call for what he likes, toturn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, to order his servants to get drunk, and then to tell me, “This house is mine, sir”. By all that’s impudent it makes me laugh.

Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal’s son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he’s mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he’s a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle’s indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle’s appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.

This little barmaid though runs in my head most strangely, and drives out the absurdities of all therest of the family. She’s mine, she must be mine, or I’m greatly mistaken.

One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.

Ticket prices are $12 for TCA members, $15 for the general public and $10 for students18 and under. Tickets may be purchased by calling the TCA office at 575-758-2052 or at the box office
 

Verdi’s La Traviata - Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.

Individual opera ticket prices are $17 for TCA members, $20 for the general public and $10 for students under 18. Tickets may be purchased by calling the TCA office at 575-758-2052 or at the box office.
The Met: Live in HD at the TCA is underwritten by: KRZA Community Radio, KKIT/KVOT - DMC Braodcasting and the Taos Opera Guild
 

Making their mark on the Vaudeville Nouveau movement in America, The Squirm Burpee Circus is an exhilarating, fantastical adventure featuring classic Vaudeville comedy, high-skill circus acts and a plot rooted in American Melodrama. Forged in the fire of Denver’s Handsome Little Devils Productions, The Squirm Burpee Circus is a one-of-a-kind theatrical experience that leaves audience chanting for more.

Featuring an eye-catching cast and a beautiful, Cirque-like aesthetic, The Squirm Burpee Circus can sustain itself on eye candy alone. But they don’t stop there! The show explodes with high-energy acts like The Human Cannon, The Ladder of Love and Chainsaw Juggling, not to mention classic Vaudeville comedy routines, hilarious romantic antics and swing dancing!

The Baron Vegan von Hamburger, your humble host and sworn enemy of the Squirm Burpee Circus, will take you on a journey back in time with his breathtaking Monkey-Powered Circus Wagon. In side the Circus, anything can happen, and the Baron can’t wait to put an end to it all!
On the other hand, Mike the Handsome and Dashing Dave are two dapper Vaudevillians and world-class jugglers trying to put on a show, despite their unique girl problems. Dave falls in love with a new audience member every show, while Mike has forsworn love altogether! Add the Mike-obsessed Lovely Little Lolo to the mix, and you’ve got a recipe for romantic disaster! Together, Dave and Mike evoke the brotherly comedy of the Smothers Brothers, Martin and Lewis and the like, while Mike and Lolo’s hilarious antics are reminiscent of I Love Lucy.

Throughout the show, the evil Baron Vegan von Hamburger is plotting to destroy them, and it will take a real change of heart for him to let the Circus go! Will Dave ever find his One True Love? Will Lolo win Mike’s heart? Will the Baron succeed and obliterate them once and for all? When the show begins, you’ll wish you brought your bedpans!

Ticket prices are $12 for TCA members, $15 for the general public and $7 for youth 15 and under. Tickets may be purchased by calling the TCA office at 575-758-2052 or at the box office.

A Juried Exhibition:
“35 & Under – 35 Works Of Art”
Open to unrepresented and represented artists ages 35 and under residing in Taos County.
An all media exhibition

Oening Reception May 4, 2012 at 5 PM

April 28, 2012: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM & 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM Location: Taos Community Auditorium Western Environmental Law Center is pleased to announce that we will once again proudly host the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, on tour in Taos on April 28, 2012! This is our third year to host the Festival in Taos, and we have big plans for 2012! After a sold-out evening show last year, we are expanding to include a Saturday matinee in the program.

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival, one of the largest environmental film festivals in North America, works with environmental groups across the country to bring together diverse audiences through film with the goal to inspire environmental action. Celebrating its 10th year in 2012, the Festival will be hosted in over 110 locations across the United States. Western Environmental Law Center is honored to have been selected again to host this year’s Festival in Taos, the home of our Southwest office.

Our one-day festival will feature a diverse selection of about 25 short environmental films produced with stellar filmmaking, beautiful cinematography and first-rate storytelling to inform, inspire and ignite solutions and possibilities to restore our earth and human communities while creating a positive future for the next generation.

We will also be offering door prizes, raffle items, concessions, and informational booths hosted by our local sponsors. Tickets include one entry for the fantastic door prize drawings to be held during each performance. It is sure to be an exciting day! Please plan to join us!

Tickets: General Admission prices for each performance: $8 Adults, $5 Youth (12 & under).

Additional information on films, door prize & raffle items, ticketing, and sponsors will be posted soon. Stay tuned!

April 28, 2012: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM & 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM Location: Taos Community Auditorium Western Environmental Law Center is pleased to announce that we will once again proudly host the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, on tour in Taos on April 28, 2012! This is our third year to host the Festival in Taos, and we have big plans for 2012! After a sold-out evening show last year, we are expanding to include a Saturday matinee in the program.

The Wild & Scenic Film Festival, one of the largest environmental film festivals in North America, works with environmental groups across the country to bring together diverse audiences through film with the goal to inspire environmental action. Celebrating its 10th year in 2012, the Festival will be hosted in over 110 locations across the United States. Western Environmental Law Center is honored to have been selected again to host this year’s Festival in Taos, the home of our Southwest office.

Our one-day festival will feature a diverse selection of about 25 short environmental films produced with stellar filmmaking, beautiful cinematography and first-rate storytelling to inform, inspire and ignite solutions and possibilities to restore our earth and human communities while creating a positive future for the next generation.

We will also be offering door prizes, raffle items, concessions, and informational booths hosted by our local sponsors. Tickets include one entry for the fantastic door prize drawings to be held during each performance. It is sure to be an exciting day! Please plan to join us!

Tickets: General Admission prices for each performance: $8 Adults, $5 Youth (12 & under).

Additional information on films, door prize & raffle items, ticketing, and sponsors will be posted soon. Stay tuned!