Lensic Performing Arts Center

Santa Fe


A beautifully renovated 1930 movie house, the theater hosts touring productions and classic films as well as seven different performance groups, including the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet and the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus.


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