(Photo: Santa Fe Opera/Ken Howard)
Santa Fe recently debuted Philip Gossett's new critical edition/world premiere of Maometto II in a new production by David Alden. The world's greatest Italian opera scholar schooled the Santa Fe Opera -- including bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni as the lead and soprano Leah Crocetto as Anna -- on Rossini's 1820 tale of a Turkish sultan's siege of the Venetian colony Negroponte, full of slaughter, suicide and everything in between.
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(Photo: Santa Fe Opera/Ken Howard)