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...Santa Fe adds a theater to its opera and art galleries...
...bursts up from the city, served as a symbol of its remarkable theater festival. In New Mexico, the dark Sangre de Cristo mountains, falling away to boundless plains, have inspired two generations of transplanted New Yorkers to envision a summertime American Salzburg or Edinburgh in 371-year-old Santa Fe...
John Crosby was 31 when in 1957 he founded the Santa Fe Opera in the Indian and colonial Spanish countryside where he had recuperated from asthma as a child. Today the troupe is internationally respected for imaginative productions and varied repertory. Pianist Alicia Schachter and her film producer husband Sheldon Rich went to Santa Fe for a vacation in 1972. A year later they started the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Renowned players and composers now cherish its sustained intimacy and stay together for brief postseason tours in Seattle and New York...
...Santa Fe (pop. 50,000) has become an even more sophisticated haven than in the early decades of the century, when D.H. Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and other writers and artists settled in its environs. They were outsiders, and Santa Fe has since become, with some disgruntlement, a city full of outsiders-many of them cosmopolitan and gifted. Neil Simon and his actress wife Marsha Mason have taken a house. So has Movie Actress Amy Irving. Watergate Figure John Ehrlichman, now a writer, frequents the bar of the fashionable, crowded Pink Adobe restaurant. According to the weekly Santa Fe...
Gaddes cannot readily explain his success with the offbeat. Perhaps his apprenticeship at the Santa Fe Opera -the prototype of the innovative summer company-has something to do with it, as well as his urbane salesmanship. Gaddes also credits public interest in the exciting young singers who have appeared with the company and admits that the BBC's telecast of the 1978 Albert Herring raised the company immeasurably in the eyes of opera-hungry St. Louisans...