PASA PICKS
Currents 2024 Art & Technology Festival
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia, 505-992-0591 Indoor/outdoor installations, Ai-generated/assisted 2D and 3D works, and robotics; June 14-23; $10 and $15, ages 20 or under no charge; currentsnewmedia.org.
Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
Kiva Auditorium, 401 Second Street NW, Albuquerque
On tour; 7:30 p.m. June 22; $44-$86; sfnm.co/3kbndgh.
Santa Fe Opera
301 Opera Drive, 505-986-5900
June 28-August 24: New productions of Verdi’s and Mozart’s world premiere of Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s Strauss’
(last production 1992), and a revival of SFO’S 2009 production of Donizetti’s tickets start at $52; santafeopera.org.
Santa Fe Wine Festival
El Rancho de las Golondrinas, 334 Los Pinos Road, 505-471-2261 Tastings, sales, demonstrations, food, and music noon-6 p.m. July 6 and 7; discounted tickets through June 27: $10 and $20; June 28-July 7: $15 and $25; VIP $80, ages 11 and under no charge; golondrinas.org; advance sales only.
Ballet Gala Performance
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Artists from the Joffrey, Royal, Houston, and Boston ballet companies and Ballet West; 8 p.m. July 13 and 14; $56-$114; lensic.org/events.
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Avenue July 14-August 19: Featuring four world premieres, with debuting and returning artists, including conductor Donald Runnicles, mezzo-soprano Annika Schlicht, pianists Zotán Fejérvári and Kirill Gerstein, composers Outi Tarkiainen and Xinyang Wang; tickets start at $15; santafechambermusic.com.
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Roots rock trio; 7:30 p.m. June 19; $20; ampconcerts.org.
Bella Baroque
Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe, 107 W. Barcelona Road
Debut concert: harpsichordist Joe Illick, cellist Carole Whitney, violinist Stacy Lesartre, flutist Patricia Wolf Zuber, and special guest soprano Amy Owens performing music of Telemann, Albinoni, and Handel; 7:30 p.m. June 21; $20 at the door.
!Orgullo!
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus showcase of Latinx culture; 7:30 p.m. June 21; $20-$60; lensic.org/events.
Why Fades a Dream?
Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place
Music of Carlos Guastavino, Hector Berlioz, and Leonard Bernstein performed by mezzo-soprano Elizebeth Barnes and pianist Deborah Wagner; 1 p.m. June 22; $10-$25; trimsantafe.org.
Joe Jackson
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 English singer-songwriter paying tribute to Music Hall-era British artist Max Champion on his Two Rounds of Racket tour; 8 p.m. June 22; $35; ampconcerts.org.
Festival Flamenco Albuquerque
National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth Street SW, Albuquerque, 505-246-2261
Including Eduardo Guerrero, Mercedes de Córdoba y Compania, Manuel Liñán, and Farruquito; 8 p.m. June 24-29; $55-$115; ffabq.org.