Opera Southwest

[2] The company's first production, Così fan tutte, was staged in January 1973 in the University of New Mexico's Popejoy Hall.

[4] In 2009, the Opera Southwest received the Albuquerque Arts Alliance Bravo Award and concluded its season at the KiMo Theatre with the company's first performance of Lucia di Lammermoor.

[5] It now performs at the Albuquerque Journal Theatre (part of the National Hispanic Cultural Center) where it stages two to three opera productions per year.

While the majority of Opera Southwest's productions have been from the standard operatic repertoire, the company has regularly presented both new and relatively rarely performed works.

These include:[10] Ethan Greene's A Way Home, first performed in Houston in 2010, premiered in its revised and orchestrated version at Opera Southwest in 2012.