Santa Fe Opera

Okay.

You worked, if I remember now, you went to Santa Fe Opera.

Did you work at the Santa Fe Opera?

I did.

Yeah.

it.

I love Santa Fe.

But the Santa Fe Opera is one of the most acclaimed opera companies in the country.

Um, and then from there, I kind of jumped into singing professionally.

I, I, left there, went to Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, and then went back to sing with Opera Colorado a few years later for Don Giovanni.

So did some solo opera singing for a while.

And then around 30, moved to New York City, joined the Met Chorus as an associate chorus position.

I already shared with Stavros that I used to work in theater.

I worked at the Santa Fe Opera.

Stavros lives in the Albuquerque area, Albuquerque adjacent.

[laughs]

So how did we even get on this topic of napping

and slowing down? So I was talking about, I went to the Santa Fe Opera.

I think that's how this topic came about.

And I really thought about not going because I had so much work I needed to do.

It's a summer season.

And there are multiple festivals that hire people for a tenured summer position, like Colorado Music Festival, I believe, Santa Fe Opera, Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago.

And I've taken auditions for some of them.

And I have thought about taking auditions for others.

We've got Over 100 galleries just on Canyon Road.

We've got the Santa Fe Opera, which is a destination that people come to and spend the entire summer just to go to opera season.

It's an outdoor venue that's beautiful, like Red Rocks in Colorado.

You know, we've got it.

And then once they are aware of the fact that this is actually, you know, hap- happening in their bodies, it's sort of this spiral that happens, and they become even more engaged, and, and so the benefits get even bigger and, and so on.

Santa Fe Opera's production of The Magic Flute had audience singalong parts.

Mm-hmm.

And I can imagine how that did.

a top artistic position at a level one opera company when he was named the director of artistic administration at the Dallas Opera.

He's also served as casting director at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and he's also served as artistic consultant at the Santa Fe Opera.

And we also got to work with David Lomeli shortly during the pandemic when he formed TDO Network for the Dallas Opera, which generated more than 300 million views on its social media handles from the company from March 2020 to April 2021.

We're really excited to have you, David.

But for those 12 steps, it's a lifetime, right? I became a father during that spell.

I got divorced during that spell.

I went to work for the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Santa Fe Opera.

I opened my own consulting firm.