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Popejoy Hall Center for Performing Arts

Popejoy Hall is New Mexico's grandest multi-use theater, serving as the home for The Ovation Series at Popejoy Hall and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.

Popejoy Hall, named after former University of New Mexico president Tom Popejoy, is located on the campus of UNM. Enter the campus at Stanford and Central and you will find us one block west just north of the UNM Bookstore. We hope you will come to Popejoy Hall soon to enjoy one of the many performances we host here, whether by one of our fine local companies, or by one of the many international touring acts we bring to New Mexico for your enjoyment.

For More information, please visit www.popejoypresents.com or call (505) 277-4569.

Albuquerque Little Theater

The Albuquerque Little Theatre was founded in 1930 by a group of civic-minded citizens led by Irene Fisher, a reporter and the society editor for the New Mexico Tribune. The idea of a local Theatre group was born when Ms. Fisher attended a lecture by a professional actress named Kathryn Kennedy O'Connor who moved to New Mexico for health reasons in 1927. Ms. Fisher led the campaign to raise an operating budget of $1,000 and Ms. Connor was hired as the Theatre's Director. ALT spent its first six years at the KiMo Theatre in downtown Albuquerque.

In 1936 ALT moved into its present home located at 224 San Pasquale SW, just south of the historic Old Town section of Albuquerque. In the Theatre's 70-year history, ALT has produced 410 consecutive productions. ALT continues our tradition of true community Theatre by providing the residents of the greater Albuquerque area with great entertainment and the opportunity to become involved in the production of live theatre.

For more information, visit www.albuquerquelittletheatre.org or call (505)242-4750.

Santa Fe Opera

Every July and August since 1957, opera lovers have been drawn to the magnificent northern New Mexico mountains to enjoy productions by one of America's premier summer opera festivals. Here, The Santa Fe Opera's dramatic adobe theater blends harmoniously with the high desert landscape. It is this fusion of nature and art that leaves such an enduring impression on all who come. More than half the audience of 75,000 comes from outside New Mexico representing every state in the union as well as Canada and Europe.

The Santa Fe Opera has taken its place among the world's leading opera festivals. Its mission now, as it has been, is to present productions meeting the highest artistic standards in a repertory of new, rarely performed, and standard works. To that end, some 1,500 performances of 120 operas, 40 American premieres and 9 works commissioned by the company have been given. Most recently, in 2003, the world premiere of Bright Sheng's Madame Mao received world-wide press attention. The Santa Fe Opera has a wide array of education and community outreach programs to make opera accessible and appealing to a broad spectrum of the New Mexico population. The Santa Fe Opera has become one of New Mexico's cultural and economic leaders. Its reputation attracts thousands of tourists to the area each year, and provides employment and income both directly and indirectly.

For More information, visit www.santafeopera.org or call (505) 986-5900.

Chamber Music Albuquerque

Formerly known as the June Music Festival, Chamber Music Albuquerque has been a major arts partner in New Mexico since 1942. It is recognized as one of the Southwest’s premier chamber music presenting organizations.

True to its mission, CMA will present twelve chamber music concerts during the 2005-2006 Season at the Simms Center for the Performing Arts at the Albuquerque Academy. The program is diverse. From Spanish secular instrumental music played on original instruments to European, American, and South American masterworks, the performers celebrate old and the new with equal dedication to the craft of chamber music performance.

For more information, visit www.cma-abq.org or call (505) 268-1990.

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra

Nearly 2,000 people gathered at the University of New Mexico's Carlisle Gymnasium on a cool Wednesday evening, November 13, 1932 to hear the debut performance of the Albuquerque Civic Symphony. Teachers, students, housewives and businesspeople comprised the 61-member orchestra. Today, 69 years after its founding, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra - a 76 member, fully professional ensemble - is recognized as one of the nation's leading orchestras. Renowned conductor and violinist Guillermo Figueroa was appointed the Orchestra's 10th Music Director in May 2001. Resident Conductor and Choral Director Roger Melone entered his 19th season in 2001-2002, marking the longest tenure of any conductor in NMSO history.

Deeply committed to educational activities and to serving its multi-cultural environment the New Mexico Symphony performs each year for an audience of more than 130,000 - over half of them attending free concerts. While the First State Bank Classical series and Sandia Casino Pops at Popejoy series take place at the University of New Mexico's Popejoy Hall, over half of the NMSO's performances every year take place in Albuquerque area neighborhoods, schools, and in the 13-17 New Mexico communities served by the Orchestra's touring program, as well as the Bank of America Symphony Under the Stars series at the Rio Grande Zoo.

Important community activities include a series of five to nine concerts each year in neighborhood and community centers as well as major collaborations with the National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico and several of the New Mexico pueblos.

For more information, visit www.nmso.org or call (505) 881-9590.