The Symphony Box Office: 505.983.1414 or The Lensic Box Office: 505.988.1234
Handel's Messiah
Saturday, November 21  : : :   7:30 pm (SEE SPECIAL OFFER BELOW!)
Sunday, November 22  : : :   4:00 pm   
   
 
Don't miss our acclaimed annual performance of Handel's Messiah, conducted by Tom Hall. Joining us this year are four successful graduates of The Santa Fe Opera's Apprentice Program and rising stars: Devon Guthrie, soprano; Alyssa Martin, mezzo-soprano; Joshua Dennis, tenor; and Joseph Beutel, bass-baritone, plus the full Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, led by Choral Director Dr. Linda Raney. A musical rite of the holiday season, this Baroque-era oratorio still awes listeners after more than two and a half centuries! Join Guest Conductor Tom Hall for a FREE preview talk one hour before the concerts.    
 

Many thanks to Concert Sponsors-In-Part:

 

Thornburg Investment Management and First National Santa Fe 

 
Devon Guthrie : : : Soprano
  
American soprano Devon Guthrie made an acclaimed debut as Susanna in a new production of Le nozze di Figaro at English National Opera while she was still a student at the Juilliard School. She has won several awards and prizes in competitions such as the Gerda Lissner Competition, Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers, Licia Albanese Competition and Liederkranz. Devon was also an apprentice at The Santa Fe Opera and Tanglewood Music Festival, where she worked with James Levine.
 
Recent operatic roles include Daisy Buchanan in Harbison's The Great Gatsby in Boston at the New England Conservatory and Tanglewood; Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte with Opera Philadelphia; Chocholka in The Cunning Little Vixen for New York Philharmonic; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Tanglewood Music Festival; Roxana in Król Roger (cover) for The Santa Fe Opera and Amore in Orfeo ed Euridice (cover) at the Metropolitan Opera.

Recent highlights include Pamina in a new production of The Magic Flute by renowned British actor and director Simon McBurney at ENO, her debut with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Pulcheria in Riccardo Primo and an acclaimed Santa Fe debut as Marzelline in Fidelio as well as Susanna in a production of Le nozze di Figaro at the Saito Kinen Festival. On the concert platform, she has performed a Huang Ruo Chamber Concert with Mimesis Ensemble at Carnegie Hall and in Santa Fe, and was heard in Handel's Messiah with The Santa Fe Symphony.
 
In the 2015-2016 season, Guthrie continues her exploration of the contemporary repertoire at Dallas and San Diego Opera Companies, where she will understudy the role of Tatyana Baskt in the world premiere of The Great Scott. On the concert platform, she appears with the Richmond Symphony for a New Year's Concert series and with the Paul Taylor Dance Company for a series of performances of Beloved Renegade.
 
Devon Guthrie is represented by Intermusica worldwide. 
  

Alyssa Martin : : : Mezzo-Soprano
 
   
Alyssa Martin, mezzo-soprano, is quickly establishing herself as an exciting up-and-comer in the opera world. Lauded for her vocal agility, she is frequently sought after for the works of Mozart and Rossini. Martin is a first-year Marion Roose Pullin Studio Artist at Arizona Opera. This season she will perform the roles of Magnolia in Kalman's Arizona Lady, Mercédès in Carmen, Meg Page in Falstaff and Zerlina in Don Giovanni.
 
Martin's 2014-2015 season included her tenure as an Apprentice Artist at The Santa Fe Opera, where she covered Don Ramiro in Mozart's La finta giardiniera. She was also an Emerging Artist with Virginia Opera, where she covered Flora and Annina in La traviata and the Page in Salome.
 
This season, Martin was awarded a Career Grant from the Seattle Opera Guild, an Encouragement Grant from the Career Bridges Grant Foundation and second prize at the Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition at Florida Grand Opera. She has been the recipient of numerous awards from organizations such as the Orpheus Vocal Competition, Young Patronesses of the Opera, Opera Guild of Dayton, Indianapolis Matinee Musicale, Utah Festival Opera and the Metropolitan National Council Awards.
 
She completed her studies at the prestigious Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where she obtained both bachelor's and master's degrees under the instruction of Patricia Stiles and world-renowned soprano Carol Vaness. On the IU stage she performed many roles such as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Cendrillon in Massenet's Cendrillon, Dorabella in Così fan tutte and Prinz Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus. Martin is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina.
 

Joshua Dennis : : : Tenor
   
Possessing a tenor voice the New York Times declares is filled with "youthful ardor," tenor Joshua Dennis sings his first performances of Roy Dexter in the American premiere of Arizona Lady with Arizona Opera and Alfredo in La Traviata with Opera Columbus and Opera Idaho. In 2015-2016, he also joins Dallas Opera for its world premiere of Heggie's Great Scott. Dennis has also planned a return to Arizona Opera for a world premiere. Last season, he sang his first performances of Ferrando in Così fan tutte with Opera Naples and joined The Santa Fe Symphony for Handel's
Messiah as well as a concert of opera favorites Shakespeare & Love. He returned to The Santa Fe Opera for its production of Rigoletto and joined Gotham Chamber Opera for its double bill of Martinu's Alexandre bis and Comedy on the Bridge.

Dennis recently rejoined The Santa Fe Opera as Jacquino in the company's most recent production of Fidelio. As an Apprentice Artist with the company, he sang Serano in La donna de lago, scenes of Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus and Ruggiero in La rondine, as well as covered Alfredo in La Traviata, Count Elemer in Arabella and Frank Harris in the world premiere of Morrison's Oscar. He also recently sang Frederic in Pirates of Penzance with Eugene Opera and Dubois' Les sept paroles du Christ at Lufkin Presbyterian Church (Texas).

Dennis is also a previous Apprentice Artist of Des Moines Metro Opera, where he sang scenes of Grimoaldo in Rodelinda and Jacquino in Fidelio. He was a district winner and finalist in the northeastern region of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and was the National Association of Teachers of Singing Singer of the Year in 2011 and first place winner of the graduate division in 2010.

Dennis holds a Bachelor of Music from Stephen F. Austin State University, at which his performances included Handel's Messiah, Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus and Sam in Susannah.  

Joseph Beutel : : : Tenor
   
"An imposing bass-baritone," as reviewed by Opera News, Joseph Beutel is often praised for his "deep, well-rounded tone" and richness of voice. Beutel was drawn to the world of opera and classical music after having started his career in jazz performance. As a young bass-baritone, he has already had excellent opportunities to sing nationally and internationally with major opera companies and symphony orchestras such as The Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, Schlüterwerke in Vienna, Gotham Chamber Opera, the New York Philharmonic and not to mention, The Santa Fe Symphony. Beutel enjoys playing characters of all sorts. Some of his favorite and most notable roles have been Mephistopheles in Faust, Colline in La Bohème and the role of Death from Der Kaiser von Atlantis written by Viktor Ullmann, which he had the honor to perform before the Austrian President Heinz Fischer.

Beutel's passion is fueled in large part by the initiatives taken by composers and producers of new works. As a composer himself, he sees the need to perpetuate the classical arts not only in the form of the historic greats, but also with contemporary development, which speaks to a modern audience and pertains to our current social climate. He has enjoyed the opportunity to originate some American operatic roles such as the British Major in the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night by Kevin Puts, with Minnesota Opera's New Works Initiative, and Fred Clayton in an exciting new piece, The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing, by Justine Chen, in collaboration with American Lyric Theater.

As for other singing endeavors, Beutel does not like to be limited to opera alone. His love for oratorio has drawn him closely into pieces such as Bach's St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion, countless Bach Cantatas, Handel's Messiah and Mozart's Requiem, along with many others. He will be making his debut this spring as bass soloist in Stravinsky's Les Noces with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. He also has an affinity for musical theater and had the privilege to sing a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical review concert in Salzburg in honor of the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music. Beutel performed the role of Orin Peasley in the New York Philharmonic's Emmy-nominated production of Carousel, and he played the priest in ENCORES! at New York City Center's recent production
of Most Happy Fella.  
TOM HALL : : :  GUEST CONDUCTOR 
 
The Baltimore Sun has raved, "All that has been routine about the performances of Tom Hall and the Baltimore Choral Arts Society is how consistently good they are." One of the most highly regarded performers in choral music today, Mr. Hall was appointed Music Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society in 1982. WMAR Television, the ABC network affiliate in Maryland, features Choral Arts in an annual hour-long special, Christmas with Choral Arts, which is broadcast two times each season, and which won an Emmy Award in 2006. Hall hosts Choral Arts Classics and he is the Culture Editor and Co-Host of Maryland Morning on WYPR Radio, the NPR affiliate in Baltimore. In 2006 he was named Best New Broadcast Journalist by the Society of Professional Journalists, and in 2009 the Baltimore City Paper named him "Baltimore's Best Radio Personality."

Hall served on the faculties of the Chorus America/Chicago Symphony Association Choral-Orchestral Conducting Workshop and Masterclass, and a similar event sponsored by VocalEssence in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has been invited to be an Artist in Residence at the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University, the University of Cincinnati, Syracuse University and Temple University. For the past 31 years he has been the Director of Choral Activities at Goucher College, and he has lectured and taught courses at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Peabody Conservatory, the University of Baltimore, Towson University and Johns Hopkins University.

In addition to his position in Baltimore, Hall is active as a guest conductor in the United States and in Europe. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the Handel and Haydn Society in Boston's Symphony Hall, with L'Orchestre de chambre de Paris in New York and Paris, New York's Musica Sacra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Choral Arts Philadelphia. Hall has prepared choruses for Leonard Bernstein, Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling and others, and he served for ten years as the Chorus Master of The Baltimore Opera Company.

Tickets for our Sunday, November 22 performance range from $25 to $80 and they are selling fast! Call 505.983.1414 or 1.800.480.1319 today for tickets through The Symphony Box Office.You may also call The Lensic at 505.988.1234.

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!!! SPECIAL PROMOTION FOR SATURDAY PERFORMANCE ONLY !!!!

TICKETS FOR SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 PERFORMANCE AVAILABLE FROM $15 TO $48

USE PROMO CODE: HALLELUJAH
 
(This offer is not available online and may not be combined with any other offer.)

Contact The Symphony Box Office at 505.983.1414 to redeem this special offer for Saturday's performance.

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Half-price tickets are available for children ages 6 to 14 with adult purchase. No children under six are admitted. 

The 2015-2016 season is funded in part by the Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers' Tax; New Mexico Arts, a division of the Office of Cultural Affairs; and the National Endowment for the Arts. 
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