Criminal charges have been dropped against a New Mexico opera leader accused of propositioning two teenage boys for oral sex earlier this year outside of a Powell grocery store.

Charles MacKay, 75, who retired in 2018 as the general director of the world-renowned Santa Fe Opera, was charged March 22 with two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and two counts of third-degree sexual abuse of a minor.

Those charges were dropped on Nov. 26, and the criminal case against MacKay was sealed, officials with the Park County Circuit Court said.

Park County Prosecuting Attorney Bryan A. Skoric and MacKay did not return phone calls from Cowboy State Daily to explain why the charges were dropped .

Court records indicate that as of Sept. 8, 2025, MacKay was housed in a memory care

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