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My Opera Dream Came True

22 Sunday Jan 2023

Posted by elainepinkerton in Adoption, Celebrating Adoption, My Events, Travel

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When did I first long to be in the audience at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera? I can’t say exactly, but the desire was probably born in 1967, the year I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Our city boasts a fine company, Santa Fe Opera, and I’ve never missed attending their productions. Wonderful, but not the Met. During not-so-long-ago months of the Covid lockdown, most nights found me watching HD Met Opera productions on the computer. Along with thousands of other opera buffs, I found my spirits lifted, worries forgotten. I imagined myself there.

This January during a visit to the East Coast, I finally attended the Met. Thanks to a kind friend who secured tickets for us, I got to see “Fedora” by Umberto Giordano. Involving the tragic, entangled love affair of two aristocrats, the opera was melodramatic, sumptuously presented, brilliantly sung. The play on which this little known opera is based was written by a Frenchman, Victorien Sardou. Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva sang the role of Princess Fedora; Piotr Beczala, a tenor from Poland, performed the role of Count Loris, Fedora’s lover. The plot becomes impossibly tangled and — no surprise —Fedora ends up tragically poisoned by her own hand. As one critic quipped, “Fedora” is about as opera as opera gets.”

Being at the Met exceeded my expectations; it was incredibly rewarding. But there were other highlights of the trip back East. Thanks to the kind friend, I saw the Berkshires, the Catskills, the house of Robert Frost in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, and the Clark Art Museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Even though I would never choose to live anywhere but Santa Fe, I was reminded that beautiful and fascinating sights and experiences are to be enjoyed in the Northeast.

Robert Frost House/ Sculpture of Frost writing “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

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Reading and Memoir Writing Workshop

10 Wednesday Oct 2012

Posted by elainepinkerton in My Events

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adoption, memoir workshop, New Mexico, reading, Santa Fe, writing

Anyone who was adopted or who has adopted a child will find comfort and inspiration in Elaine Pinkerton‘s memoir The Goodbye Baby: A Diary About Adoption.

Drawing on her own experience as an adopted child, Pinkerton traces a journey through the thorny issues of adoption and the search for healing.

The presentation will include a free, hands-on memoir writing workshop with the goal of turning personal journals or family letters into a book. Suggested materials include a notebook or laptop, a few letters or diaries, and ideas about your intended audience, family history or life themes.

Elaine Pinkerton is a long-time resident of Santa Fe. In addition to writing for magazines and newspapers, she is the author of several popular non-fiction and fiction books. She is a world traveler, educator focused on working with young children.

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202 Galisteo Street Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501-6415

I hope to see you there 🙂 

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