Updated: August 23, 2012 8:26PM SANTA FE, N.M. — A visitor to this mountaintop operatic Shangri-La can have the weird feeling of stumbling upon Chicago Southwest. Seven thousand feet elevation, dry heat, desert views, and a healthy presence of silver and turquoise jewelry notwithstanding, the ties between the Midwestern metropolis and this historic crossroads of Native, Spanish, and Anglo (as it's called here) culture are long and great, from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway to the Fred Harvey Co. and family to the downtown Cliff Dwellers Club and the early American Indian collections of the Art Institute of Chicago. The same with the opera, founded just a few years after and as...
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