Santa Fe Opera

The theater the panel points toward is not the first. On July 27, 1967, hours after the American premiere of Hindemith's Cardillac, fire destroyed the original house; The Barber of Seville went on 36 hours later in a high school gym, and the company never missed a date. A new theater opened in 1968, and the present Crosby Theatre in 1998. The panel's claim that most operas are sung in English has aged: seatback titles in English and Spanish arrived in 1999. Its misprint preformed is on the panel itself.

What the plaque says

Official Scenic Historic Marker Santa Fe Opera Entrance One Mile Ahead The Santa Fe Opera, founded in 1957, has won worldwide acclaim for the high standards of its presentations and the success of its apprentice program. World and American premieres as well as standard operatic favorites are presented here. Most operas are preformed in English.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Palace of the Governors — 3.8 mi
  The long adobe on the north side of the Santa Fe plaza, called the oldest public building in continuous use in the country, though its own founding date is in dispute.
• El Santuario de Chimayó — 18 mi
  A small adobe shrine on the High Road to Taos, built around 1816 over earth that pilgrims still carry away in hope of healing.
• Bandelier National Monument — 19 mi
  Rooms carved into soft volcanic tuff in Frijoles Canyon, named for a Swiss scholar who was led there in 1880 by a man from Cochiti Pueblo.
• Pecos National Historical Park — 19 mi
  The red walls of a 1717 mission church inside the foundations of a far larger one, beside the kiva Pecos people dug in front of the old church during the revolt of 1680.

More markers nearby

• Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche — 4.0 mi
• Myra Ellen Jenkins — 4.0 mi
• Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin — 4.0 mi
• Mother Magdalen and the Sisters of Loretto (1852-1968) — 4.0 mi