Fri. 6/22 10a: The 2012 season of the Santa Fe Opera begins on June 29 and runs thru August 25. Five productions will run in repertoire, Puccini's Tosca, Bizet's The Pearl Fishers, Rossini's Maometto II, Szymanowski's King Roger and Strauss's Arabella. Host Spencer Beckwith discusses the new season with the General Director of the Santa Fe Opera, Charles MacKay.
Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.