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Beth Ratay, a professional faculty member and composer for the department of music at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded the 2025 Discovery Grant from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Women Composers program. The $100,000 grant will be split...

Lydia Grindatto has been busy since she graduated from The University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Music in 2017, but the opera soprano reached new heights this month after winning the Fernand Lamesch Award of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Eric...

The Santa Fe Opera and New Mexico PBS (NMPBS) will soon present “From Page To Stage,” an original iCOLORES! series on the making of John Corigliano and Mark Adamo’s new opera The Lord of Cries. The series offers an inside, multi-part view on the creative...

Professors Olga Perez Flora and James “Jamie” Flora are new faculty members in The University of New Mexico music department teaching and it’s no coincidence they share the same last name. They are a married and musical couple. Olga is an assistant...

The UNM’s Opera Theatre will be joining forces with the UNM Symphony Opera to perform Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance for one weekend only. Pirates of Penzance will be performed at the UNM Center of the Arts in Keller Hall at Feb. 28,...

"Brundibar," a children's opera by Czech composer Hans Krasa performed in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, will be presented at the Church of Beethoven on Sunday, Oct. 24, at 10:30 a.m. and at UNM on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2 p.m.The opera is performed ...