“I was so green.” She remembers toiling in the dark, wooden confines of the old costume shop, which lacked air conditioning and had one row of tiny windows.

“My role was second hand to the draper, so I was an assistant to the assistants,” says West.

Back then, she didn’t know to ask any of these questions-let alone how to answer them. This is where she started her career in opera, in 1990. “But what’s the blue dress made of? What period of history are we working in? Is the shape of the singer going to work with the shape of what you’ve drawn?” It’s early May, and West is sitting at a worktable in the relatively quiet costume shop, which is submerged behind the stage of the open air performance venue. ‘It’s one thing to draw a picture of a lady in a blue dress,” says Missy West, Costume Director of the Santa Fe Opera. Missy West, Costume Director of the Santa Fe Opera The Exodus Ensemble Will Upend Your Reality.Shawn Skabelund Explores Ecological and Cultural Destruction at Coconino Center for the Arts.Ho Baron’s 50-Year Retrospective of Outsider Art in El Paso.In i know you are, but what am i, Artists Turn Taunts into Self-Empowerment.Before and Afterlives: JC Gonzo Rejuvenates New Mexico’s Abandoned Cemeteries.Santa Fe’s Multicultural Mural, Version 2.0.Amelia Bauer: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022.Morgan Barnard: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022.Announcing the 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022.One on One: Sean Sheehan of Sheehan Winery.Support Santa Fe Gift Guide: Food + Drink Edition.

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