100 News items related to: "Glimmerglass"
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Glimmerglass Opera balances 2010 budget
Glimmerglass Opera has reduced its 2010 operating expenses by nearly 20 percent in order to balance the company's budget, according to a statement released Monday.
The company's board of trustees recently approved a $5.6 million budget, which is about $1 million less than in recent years.
— Read more at Cooperstown Crier [2009-12-18]

Glimmerglass offers drama and comedy, Verdi and Rossini on shores of Otsego Lake
Glimmerglass Opera, in its 35th season on the shores of Otsego Lake near Cooperstown, has provided a fascinating mix of tragedy, comedy and modern drama.
The season included the ravishing "La Traviata" by Verdi, the light and lyrical "La Cenerentola" by Rossini, the pulsing drama of Menotti's "The Consul" and a concert version of Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas." Although I was not able to attend the concert, the three fully staged operas were well worth the four-hour drive. Cooperstown itself, of course, is a lovely village with plenty of options, from the Baseball Hall of Fame to the Fennimore Art Museum to the Farmers Museum and more.
— Read more at nj.com [2009-08-25]

CLASSICAL REVIEW: 2009 Glimmerglass Opera
Michael MacLeod wishes you would stop watching TV, get off your butt (as he puts it), and go see the opera. The blunt, engaging artistic director of Glimmerglass Opera is passionate about the art form he considers the most immersive and emotionally satisfying of all. Plus, he's facing a tough year.
— Read more at Rochester City Newspaper [2009-08-18]

At Glimmerglass, Jonathan Miller Explains Himself
In recent years the English author, lecturer, physician and director Jonathan Miller has repeatedly stated that he is done with opera. If he ever carried out that vow, it would be big news in the field. Mr. Miller has been one of the most successful and sought-after, if hotly debated, directors of opera since the early 1970s, when he accepted an invitation from the conductor Roger Norrington to direct Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte."
But he keeps taking on gigs. The latest is here at Glimmerglass Opera, where, 20 years after he first directed Verdi's "Traviata," he is directing a new production of the work, which runs through Aug. 25.
— Read more at NYTimes.com [2009-08-04]

Looking for help in a modern hell: Glimmerglass Opera's 'The Consul'
Rarely has bureaucracy been given such a pretty face.
In Glimmerglass Opera's production of Gian Carlo Menotti's 1950 opera "The Consul," the tale of a bureaucracy so caught up in red tape that it ends up destroying the very people it was designed to help, that face belongs to Leah Wool.
— Read more at examiner.com [2009-08-03]

Glimmerglass Opera: Cast thrilling, drama chilling in 'The Consul'
Gian Carlo Menotti's chilling portrayal of the authoritarian state is as timely today as it was when it premiered on Broadway in 1950. The Consul ran for an astounding 269 performances at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and won for him both a Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best musical play.
It's an opera that works well at Glimmerglass, where it opened on Saturday night, July 25th. The 900-seat house puts the audience right in the ghastly waiting room of the unseen Consul, as desperate petitioners wait, and wait, and wait some more for a precious visa that will permit them to flee the country.
— Read more at David Abrams - blog.cnycafemomus.com [2009-07-28]

Screwball opera: Rossini's 'La Cenerentola' at Glimmerglass Opera
Gioachino Rossini might have had a great career in 1930s Hollywood. Kevin Newbury certainly makes a strong case for that with his stylish production of "La Cenerentola," Rossini's re-imagining of the Cinderella fairy tale, for Glimmerglass Opera that opened at the Alice Busch Opera Theater last Sunday afternoon.
— Read more at examiner.com [2009-07-27]

REVIEW: Glimmerglass Opera: 'La Traviata' sparkles despite uneven cast
If Jonathan Miller's new production of La Traviata proves anything, it's that if push comes to shove, a "fallen woman" can stand on her own.
Glimmerglass Opera's 2009 season-opening performance of the Verdi masterpiece was visually appealing and, on the whole, musically satisfying. The production will most likely be remembered, however, for the powerful combination of acting and singing by Mary Dunleavy as the tragic heroine, Violetta - a performance so outstanding, in fact, few other cast members were able to keep up with her.
— Read more at David Abrams - cnycafemomus.com [2009-07-24]

REVIEW: Glimmerglass Opera: 'La Cenerentola' an ensemble delight
Brother, can you spare a dime? Well, hold on to your change: Glimmerglass Opera's new production of Rossini's La Cenerentola, set here in Depression-era America circa 1933, creates a "New Deal" of its own - forging a stimulus package that generates outstanding individual and ensemble singing, snappy stage action and cleverly synchronized comedic interplay of characters that at times may have you wondering whether you're watching opera or a Marx Brothers film.
— Read more at David Abrams - cnycafemomus.com [2009-07-23]

Season of Violettas continues with Mary Dunleavy in Glimmerglass Opera's 'La Traviata'
Soprano Mary Dunleavy will make her Glimmerglass Opera debut as Violetta Valery, the celebrated but consumptive courtesan of the Parisian demimonde who's given a second chance to die loved, in Jonathan Miller's mounting of Verdi's "La Traviata" Saturday night at the Alice Busch Opera Theater in Cooperstown, N.Y.
— Read more at examiner.com [2009-07-20]

Glimmerglass Opera announces 2010 season
Glimmerglass Opera has announced its repertory for the 2010 Festival Season. Puccini's Tosca, Copland's The Tender Land, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and the American professionally-staged premiere of Handel's Tolomeo will run in repertory in the Alice Busch Opera Theater, July 9 through August 24, 2010.
— Read more at NBC-WKTV News [2009-06-19]

Glimmerglass Opera presents four shows starting in July
Glimmerglass Opera moves ahead as planned with its 2009 Festival Season, opening July 18 in the Alice Busch Opera Theater, Route 80, eight miles north of Cooperstown
Glimmerglass Opera's 2009 summer Festival Season features Verdi's La Traviata; Rossini's retelling of the Cinderella story, La Cenerentola; Menotti's The Consul and dramatized concert performances of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, which will run in repertory in July and August.
— Read more at RomeSentinel.com [2009-05-29]

Fort Worth Opera's recent festival was a leap forward in quality
The Fort Worth Opera has become one of the country's premier opera festivals.
No kidding. The casting for this year's Carmen, Cinderella and Dead Man Walking was as good as you'd get at Santa Fe and more consistent than at either Glimmerglass or St. Louis.
— Read more at Star-Telegram.com [2009-05-13]

AOP to present "Paul's Case"
Paul's Case performs on Friday, May 29 and Saturday, May 30, 8pm at South Oxford Space, 138 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and Sunday, May 31, 7pm in Princeton, NJ. A panel discussion and post-show reception with the composers and the cast will take place after each performance. Singers slated to perform include Marcus DeLoach (New York City Opera) and Chad Johnson (BAM, Glimmerglass Opera) under the musical direction of Jennifer Peterson.
— Read more at operaprojects.org [2009-04-10]

Fairies' Magic Lives on in Staging of Wagner's First Opera
It has been a good season for Wagner's first three operas, those rarely performed works that the composer later passed off as youthful indiscretions and have been forever banned at Bayreuth. Last summer Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, New York, gave "Das Liebesverbot," a comedy based on "Measure for Measure," and in October "Rienzi," a massive grand opera highly popular during Wagner's lifetime, turned up at Opera Bremen, albeit in a less than satisfactory staging by Katharina Wagner.
— Read more at NYTimes.com [2009-04-03]

The Lamentations of Dido (Don't Forget Her Fate)
One of the works on Glimmerglass Opera's schedule this summer is Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," and as part of the preparation - or maybe just because the story, based on an episode in Virgil's "Aeneid," is so emotionally rich - the company assembled a revue drawing on other operatic renderings of the tale. Singers from the company's Young American Artists Program performed it on Wednesday evening at the Morgan Library & Museum.
— Read more at NYTimes.com [2009-02-20]

Glimmerglass Opera announces new Music Director
Glimmerglass Opera has appointed David Angus as the company's Music Director. Angus's appointment comes after a two-year search period following Stewart Robertson's departure as Glimmerglass Opera Music Director in 2006.
Angus made his U.S. conducting debut with Glimmerglass Opera's 2006 production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville and returned to Glimmerglass this past summer to conduct Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi. He will conduct Glimmerglass Opera's 2009 production of Menotti's The Consul.
— Read more at glimmerglass.org [2008-11-21]

Angus is new music director for Glimmerglass Opera
David Angus will become music director at Glimmerglass Opera in upstate New York on November 1. He replaces Stewart Robertson, who left Glimmerglass in 2006 after almost 20 years.
— Read more at The Associated Press [2008-10-22]

REVIEW: The Mines of Sulphur, Wexford Opera House, Ireland
By Wexford standards, Richard Rodney Bennett's gothic thriller is about 100 years out of date. I don?t mean old-fashioned. Quite the opposite: The Mines of Sulphur is too modern. It fails all the tests associated with this quirky festival. It lacks 19th-century roots, it sounds dissonant and has not suffered undue neglect. Even if you weren?t around for the 1965 Sadler's Wells premiere under Colin Davis, you could have snapped it up at Glimmerglass in 2004 (now on CD) or New York the following year.
— Read more at FT.com [2008-10-21]

Early Wagner: Splendor Soon to Come
Wagner's mature operas have created an image of him as the high priest of a cult based on a severe sort of German aesthetic mysticism. But "Das Liebesverbot" ("The Ban on Love"), from 1836, provides rare insight into a period when he was a young man searching for both style and substance. The opera, Wagner's second, is being performed at Glimmerglass Opera here, in what is billed as its North American fully staged premiere.
— Read more at NYTimes.com [2008-08-12]

A Rare Glimmer Of Wagner Is Worth the Trip
Wagner finished three operas before he composed the first of the 10 works for which he is famous. "Das Liebesverbot," which is receiving an exceedingly rare production here at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival, was second in the trio of scores he produced before the 1843 "Flying Dutchman," which set the great Wagnerian juggernaut rolling.
— Read more at A washingtonpost.com [2008-08-04]

Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown reverse spotlight in new offering
Behind the world-class opera singers, impeccably designed sets and jubilant orchestra at Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown is a scene audiences have yet to see up close. Frantic and chaotic, but precise, the company's backstage workhorses scurry around to move sets and lighting and change costumes and props.
— Read more at Democrat and Chronicle [2008-07-15]

Glimmerglass Opera announces 2009 season
Glimmerglass Opera recently announced its 2009 summer festival season, which will feature 39 performances of new productions of Verdi's "La Traviata," Rossini's "La Cenerentola," Menotti's "The Consul" and Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas."
The shows will run in repertory from July 18, 2009, to Aug. 25, 2009, in the Alice Busch Opera Theater, Route 80.
— Read more at The Observer-Dispatch [2008-06-06]

Glimmerglass Opera to stage 34th Festival Season
Glimmerglass Opera will stage its 34th Festival Season July 5-August 24, 2008, "If music be the food of love, play on!" Four new productions with links to Shakespeare will be presented on a set resembling an Elizabethan theater: Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, the American fully-staged premiere of Wagner's Das Liebesverbot (inspired by Shakespeare's Measure for Measure), and Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi. Additionally, Glimmerglass will present two concert performances of Mendelssohn's Complete Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
— Learn more at glimmerglass.org [2008-05-22]

Glimmerglass to hold annual New York City Spring Gala
Glimmerglass Opera will hold its annual New York City Spring Gala on Tuesday, April 15, at 6:30 p.m. at The Metropolitan Club, 1 East 60th Street. The centerpiece of the evening will be a satirical theatrical revue linked to Glimmerglass Opera's Shakespeare-inspired summer season, featuring musical selections by Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter and Frank Loesser. The Gala will benefit the company?s Young American Artists and Summer Internships programs.
— Learn more at glimmerglass.org [2008-03-21]

Glimmerglass Opera to present a program of poetry and music
Glimmerglass Opera will present Shakespeare on Love, a program of poetry and music previewing the company?s 2008 summer season, at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 31. A Meet the Artists reception immediately follows the program.
— Learn more at glimmerglass.org [2008-01-17]

Pushy Mother Plots to Win Her Son the Top Spot
The New York City Opera has been particularly hospitable to Handel, but its productions come and go, often bursting onto the New York State Theater stage for a season and then disappearing. Its "Agrippina" was first seen in 2002, after a 2001 showing at the Glimmerglass Opera, which co-produced it. It has been scarce since then, but on Sunday afternoon Lillian Groag's ultramodern staging returned to the repertory.
— Read more at New York Times [2007-10-16]

The new beauty: 'L'Orfeo' at Glimmerglass Opera
If director Christopher Alden wanted to make a statement with an opera about the tension that exists in opera today between proponents of classical opera reinterpretations and supporters of traditional interpretations and the shift from conductor- to director-driven productions, he could have done no better than the 400-year-old opera he chose to do it with.
— Read more at oneidadispatch.com [2007-07-31]

'Orpheus in the Underworld' opens Glimmerglass Opera's festival season
COOPERSTOWN - Glimmerglass Opera launched its summer festival season Saturday night with the first of a quartet of works turning on the Orpheus myth, Offenbach's satirical operetta, "Orpheus in the Underworld."
The production marked an excellent start to Glimmerglass Opera's General and Artistic Director Michael MacLeod's first season with complete artistic control.
— Read more at The Oneida Daily Dispatch [2007-07-10]

'Don't Look Back' - Glimmerglass Opera Opens 'Orpheus' Season
Glimmerglass Opera begins its 2007 season tonight, a season built around the classical myth of Orpheus, the world's greatest musician. Four new productions - of operas by Offenbach, Monteverdi, Gluck and Glass - will run through August 28 at the Alice Busch Opera Theater in Cooperstown, New York.
— Read more at PlaybillArts [2007-07-09]

New opera season opens Saturday night
When you've got a hard act to follow, maybe the best plan is not to follow it so much as to use it as a point of departure.
That approach evidently suits Michael MacLeod, the new artistic and general director of the Glimmerglass Opera, which opens its 2007 season Saturday night (7/7 at 8 p.m.) with a performance of Jacques Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld."
— Read more at Cooperstown Crier [2007-07-06]

Naxos and Glimmerglass to release "The Greater Good"
Glimmerglass Opera and recording company Naxos will release the world-premiere recording of Stephen Hartke's opera, The Greater Good or The Passion of Boule de Suif, on June 26. Commissioned by Glimmerglass Opera, The Greater Good was recorded live last summer during its world-premiere performances in the company's Alice Busch Opera Theater. The opera has an English libretto by the composer, modeled after Philip Littell's dramatic adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story, Boule de Suif.
— Learn more at glimmerglass.org [2007-06-07]

Glimmerglass on a New Course
The changing of the guard at all three New York opera houses ? the Metropolitan Opera, City Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera - has coincided with a slump in live audiences for classical music and opera. The old certainties that guided opera production for decades have gone, and there are no quick fixes. As the new general director of Glimmerglass, Michael MacLeod, put it, "The light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train."
— Read more at The New York Sun [2007-05-18]

Young American Artists Program to tour Northeast
Members of Glimmerglass Opera's 2007 Young American Artists Program will tour the Northeast from April 29 through May 15, performing "The World of Offenbach," a concert of selections from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, La Perichole and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein. All performances are free and open to the public.
— Learn more at glimmerglass.org [2007-04-23]

Oh, That Silly Agrippina
On Friday night, Virginia Opera brought its production of Handel's Agrippina to an undersold George Mason University Center for the Arts in Fairfax for two performances. Directed by Lilian Groag (who also mounted it for Glimmerglass Opera, much more sumptuously), this staging went far beyond a typical interpretation of Handel's youthful masterpiece, identified on its title page only as a drama per musica.
— Read more at Charles T. Downey - ionarts [2007-02-14]

'Don't Look Back' - Glimmerglass Opera Announces Details of 2007 Summer Season, Inspired by Orpheus Myth
Glimmerglass Opera will present operas inspired by the myth of Orpheus, as well as Orpheus-inspired concert performances, films and seminars, during its 2007 summer season.
Four new productions - Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, the Gluck/Berlioz Orphée et Eurydice, Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and Philip Glass's Orphée - will run from July 7 through August 28 at the Alice Busch Opera Theater in Cooperstown, New York.
— Read more at PlaybillArts [2007-01-17]

Glimmerglass Opera to Present North American Premiere of Wagner's Das Liebesverbot
Upstate New York's Glimmerglass Opera will present the first complete, fully-staged North American production of Wagner's opera Das Liebesverbot ("Forbidden Love") during its 2008 season.
This early work by Wagner - a comic opera inspired by Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, with a libretto by the composer - has been performed fully staged in Germany and Ireland; in the U.S. it received a concert presentation the Waterloo Festival in New Jersey as part of the Wagner centenary celebrations in 1983.
— Read more at PlaybillArts [2006-12-14]

Glimmerglass Opera will present Wagner's Das Liebesverbot
Glimmerglass Opera has announced that it will present the first complete, fully-staged North American production of Richard Wagner's opera Das Liebesverbot (Forbidden Love) as part of its 2008 Festival Season. Performances will take place in July and August at the Alice Busch Opera Theater next to Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, upstate New York.
— Learn more at glimmerglass.org [2006-12-12]

Glimmerglass Opera Appoints Don Marrazzo Director of Artistic Operations
They've made it official. Don Marrazzo, the Interim Director of Artistic Operations for Glimmerglass Opera in upstate New York, has been appointed to the job in a permanent capacity. The company announced Marrazzo's engagement last week.
Marrazzo's rise at the company has been swift: he joined Glimmerglass as Director of Public Relations last year and was named to the interim artistic operations post in September, upon the departure of Nicholas G. Russell.
— Read more at PlaybillArts [2006-12-07]

Glimmerglass Opera Names Don Marrazo, Former PR Director, as New Director of Artistic Operations
Glimmerglass Opera has announced that Don Marrazo, the company's former director of public relations, has officially been named as its new director of artistic operations. Marazzo had previously been serving as the company's interim director of artistic operations following the departure last fall of Nicholas G. Russell.
Marazzo, who joined the company's public relations department in 2005, is a graduate of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music - where he received a degree in vocal performance - and Sweelinck Conservatorium in the Netherlands, from which he received a Master of Music degree. Prior to joining Glimmerglass he was an employee of KKN Enterprises, a New York City-based classical-music public relations firm.
— Read more at Opera News [2006-12-01]

Opera Company to Honor Wendy Wasserstein
Allison Janney and Stockard Channing, who co-starred on NBC's "The West Wing," will help an opera company honor the late playwright Wendy Wasserstein.
The Glimmerglass Opera of Cooperstown will be joined by the two Emmy-winning actresses to present "An Uncommon Woman: A Celebration of Wendy Wasserstein," to be held Nov. 28 at the Colony Club in Manhattan.
— Read more at ABC News [2006-11-09]

Glimmerglass to present "An Uncommon Woman: A Celebration of Wendy Wasserstein and Music"
Glimmerglass Opera will present "An Uncommon Woman: A Celebration of Wendy Wasserstein and Music," on Tuesday, November 28, at the Colony Club in New York City from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Featuring readings by special guests Jane Alexander and Stockard Channing, the evening will also include musical performances by Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists, a screening of The Festival of Regrets from the Central Park opera trilogy, and a performance by the Mount Holyoke Chamber Singers.
— Read more at glimmerglass.org [2006-11-01]

Glimmerglass Opera To Present Orpheus-Inspired Concert In New York City On October 13
Internationally renowned Glimmerglass Opera has announced that it will present an Orpheus-inspired concert as one of the inaugural performances in the new Gilder Lehrman Hall at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City on Friday, October 13, at 7:30 p.m.
As a preview of Glimmerglass Opera's upcoming 2007 Festival Season, which will feature Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, Philip Glass' Orphée, the Gluck/Berlioz Orphée et Eurydice, and Haydn's L'Anima del Filosofo, the Morgan concert will be an exploration of the story of Orpheus, the greatest musician and poet in Greek mythology. The evening will include musical excerpts from each of these operas in addition to Ralph Vaughan Williams' Orpheus with his Lute and Schubert's Lied des Orpheus.
Performers for the evening will be soprano Caroline Worra, who was critically acclaimed for her recent performance as Boule de Suif in Glimmerglass Opera's 2006 world premiere of Stephen Hartke's The Greater Good. Ms. Worra will return to Glimmerglass Opera for the 2007 Festival Season to sing Euridice in Philip Glass' Orphée. Also featured will be mezzo-soprano Sandra Piques Eddy who will sing the role of Dorabella in Mozart's Così Fan Tutte this fall at New York City Opera. Male soprano Michael Maniaci, who will sing Orphée in Glimmerglass Opera?s 2007 production of the Gluck/Berlioz Orphée et Eurydice, will also be featured. He will be joined by tenor Matthew Garrett, who will sing Apollo in Glimmerglass Opera's 2007 production of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, and baritone Matthew Worth.
— Learn more at glimmerglass.org [2006-09-22]

The Greater Good
[At Glimmerglass, The Greater Good is lively and complex; Jonathan Miller's Jenufa is almost too dark and severe for its own good.]
Prostitutes with hearts of gold are plentiful in opera, but Boule de Suif, the Rubenesque heroine of Stephen Hartke's The Greater Good, is surely the noblest of them all. Recently given its world premiere at the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, Hartke's first opera takes a leisurely approach to Guy de Maupassant's classic short story, titled after its heroine, but the French writer's typically jaundiced view of community hypocrisy is devastatingly presented in music of acerbic relish, keen character observation, and real melodic sophistication. The tale is ideally tailored for opera. Boule, one of the most in-demand prostitutes of her day despite (or perhaps because) of her ripe proportions, is trapped in a horse-drawn coach filled with stolid bourgeois citizens in flight from German troops during the Franco-Prussian War. She is haughtily snubbed by them all until it becomes clear that their only means of escape from the enemy-occupied inn where they find themselves is for Boule to sleep with the Prussian commandant. This she reluctantly agrees to do for "the greater good," but having sacrificed much of her carefully maintained self-respect to serve the selfish purposes of her companions, Boule finds herself once again an ostracized nonperson.
— Read more at New York Magazine [2006-09-13]

'Jenufa' is Glimmerglass' top '06 opera
Glimmerglass Opera closed its 2006 season Tuesday with what this reviewer considers its finest of the four operas on its schedule. It cannot be faulted on any score - production, music, cast or direction.
Dramatically, "Jenufa" seems a slice of Eugene O'Neill. Yet, musically, Leos Janacek's score is full of lush, romantic music, as well as piercing emotional arias.
— Read more at syracuse.com [2006-08-31]

Opera's future onstage at Cooperstown
[Talent nurturedin upstate N.Y.]
There are many ways of defining luxury. One of them involves building a summertime-only opera house in the middle of a 17-hectare meadow.
That is what happened 19 years ago outside Cooperstown in upstate New York with the construction of the Alice Busch Opera Theatre, home of Glimmerglass Opera.
— Read more at TheStar.com [2006-08-28]

Glimmerglass Opera announces appointment
Glimmerglass Opera has announced the appointment of Andrea Lyons as the company's Director of Administration and Operations, effective September 2006. Ms. Lyons is currently Executive Director of the Charles R. Wood Theater in Glens Falls, New York, and accepts this post at Glimmerglass following the tenure of Jeryl Dropp.
— Learn more at Glimmerglass.org [2006-08-25]

Glimmerglass opera to thank the community with a free concert of operatic favorites
Members of Glimmerglass Opera's Young American Artists Program will present a concert of operatic favorites on Tuesday, August 22, at 6:00 p.m. at Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School to thank the community for its continued support of the company. Admission is free and the public is cordially invited to attend.
The concert will feature staged ensembles from works by Gilbert & Sullivan, Beethoven, Britten, Donizetti, Hartke, Mozart, Puccini, and Verdi, and will be performed by the 26 members of Glimmerglass's renowned Young American Artists Program, accompanied at the piano by members of the Opera's music staff. The ensembles will be staged by Glimmerglass Opera's resident directors.
— Learn more at Glimmerglass.org [2006-08-21]

New opera inundated at Glimmerglass
World premieres in the opera arena are trumpeted from the rooftops. They deserve it, since risking the heavy finances and resources of a company on an unknown work that might find disfavor with the public becomes an increasingly major problem.
The last time Glimmerglass Opera took the risk was in 1999 when it launched "Central Park," a three-part work, each with different composers and an equal number of playwrights creating original stories set in the New York City landmark.
Now comes "The Greater Good" from Stephen Hartke and based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant. What were they thinking?
— Read more at syracuse.com [2006-08-17]

WHAT NEXT? A trio of new American operas.
July was New American Opera Month in the purple hills of upstate New York and western Massachusetts. You could hardly drive your Smart car from the lesbian bed-and-breakfast to the organic farm stand without running over an adaptation of a literary property. Stephen Hartke's "The Greater Good" made its début at the Glimmerglass Opera, in Cooperstown. The Lake George Opera, in Saratoga Springs, presented Ned Rorem's "Our Town," which had its première in Indiana earlier this year. Elliott Carter's opera "What Next?" (1999) belatedly had its first American staging, at Tanglewood. Back in New York, Elliot Goldenthal's "Grendel" was the centerpiece of the Lincoln Center Festival, in a Julie Taymor extravaganza. These performances, all well attended, came at the end of a musical season that brought John Adams's "Doctor Atomic" to the San Francisco Opera, Tobias Picker's "An American Tragedy" to the Met, and Lowell Liebermann's "Miss Lonelyhearts" to Juilliard.
— Read more at Alex Ross - The New Yorker [2006-08-15]

Musical Tribute To Stewart Robertson
Glimmerglass Opera will present a musical tribute in honor of Music Director and Principal Conductor Stewart Robertson's final season with the company on Sunday, August 6 at 4:45 pm in the Alice Busch Opera Theater. This poignant tribute will feature the world premiere of a piece by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, whose opera The Mines of Sulphur, was the critically acclaimed surprise hit of Glimmerglass' 2004 Festival Season, as well as performances by guest artists and members of the company's Young American Artists Program. The tribute is free and the public is invited.
— Learn more at glimmerglass.org [2006-08-03]

Glimmerglass world premiere: Fine ensemble singing from large cast
Saturday evening's world premiere of Stephen Hartke's "The Greater Good" offered a taut, bittersweet comedy of manners informed with challenging but quite expressive music, moments of awkward staging, fine acting and well-performed ensemble singing by a large cast.
— Read more at The Ithaca Journal [2006-07-31]

Glimmerglass Opera presents its first work by Janacek
Opera fans who crave something new have something else to sing about in Cooperstown on Saturday as Glimmerglass Opera presents "Jenufa" by 20th century composer Leos Janacek at the Alice Busch Opera Theater. This is the first opera by Janacek to be presented at Glimmerglass.
— Read more at pressconnects.com [2006-07-28]

'Greater Good' gets a grand world premiere at Glimmerglass Opera
Glimmerglass Opera's world premiere of Stephen Hartke's "The Greater Good" last Saturday night at the Alice Busch Opera Theater was double-highlighted by exceptionally beautiful ensemble work and Hartke's confounding and attractive, rhythmically layered score.
Based on Guy de Maupassant's short story "Boule de Suif," the Franco-Prussian War-set opera focuses on a Le Havre-bound group-a merchant, a Count, a manufacturer and their wives and a socialist and two nuns-making a quick exit from Rouen, now occupied by the Prussians.
— Read more at The Oneida Daily Dispatch [2006-07-27]

Glimmerglass' 'Greater Good' isn't either one
People sitting around doing nothing in a claustrophobic environment is not the typical recipe for good drama, but screenwriter Sofia Coppola managed to get away with it in her 2003 film "Lost in Translation." She even walked off with an Academy Award for her efforts.
The creators of "The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif," the new production at Glimmerglass Opera, might take heart from Coppola's success, but the film had a couple of big-name stars and the exotic location of modern Toyko. "The Greater Good," with music by Stephen Hartke and a libretto by Philip Littell, features a mostly anonymous, if talented, batch of singers who sit in the shadows talking about the weather and food.
— Read more at Times Union [2006-07-26]

YAAP Recitals Starting July 27th
[2006 YOUNG AMERICAN ARTISTS RECITALS]
Throughout the summer, the members of the Young American Artists Program present solo recitals, free of charge, in Cooperstown and Cherry Valley. The 2006 series, entitled Romantic Song: A Celebration of Heinrich Heine, begins on Thursday, July 27, at 4:15 p.m. at Cooperstown Presbyterian Church, and features Matthew Worth, baritone, and Peter Sovitzky, tenor. The series concludes on August 27. For more information, call 607-547-2255.
— Read more at glimmerglass.org [2006-07-26]

REVIEW: The Premiere of 'The Greater Good' at Glimmerglass Opera
When opera stands in for narrative fiction, one means of transmission is substituted for another. Think of Guy de Maupassant's "Boule de Suif" as an e-mail message. Every picture, every gesture and every word is laid out in the writer?s fixed space. Readers take the materials and imagine them as they will.Think of "The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif" - Stephen Hartke's resetting of 19th-century French storytelling onto the 21st-century opera stage - more as a telephone call. What holds our attention is the emotional tone of the caller, the resonance of the voice, the smoothness of the delivery and the quality of the reception. Opera is both concrete (directors, lighting people and costumers tell us what to see) and ephemeral (there is no narrator, no paternal voice to sort out what we are seeing).
— Read more at New York Times [] [2006-07-24]

The Greater Good: Orchestra Rehearsals
On July 22nd, Glimmerglass Opera will host the world premiere of Stephen Hartke's "The Greater Good". The staff at Glimmerglass Opera has created a blog that follows the development of "The Greater Good" from first rehearsal to opening night. This week we will highlight the creative process behind the production.
— Today's feature is:Orchestra Rehearsals [] [2006-07-21]

Binghamton soprano Gardner in Glimmerglass world premiere
Greater Binghamton opera aficionados will see yet another familiar face at Glimmerglass Opera as "The Greater Good or The Passion of Boule de Suif" makes its world premiere at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Alice Busch Opera Theater in Cooperstown. (More shows are scheduled throughout the summer festival season.)
— Read more at pressconnects.com [] [2006-07-21]

The Greater Good: Early Music Rehearsals
On July 22nd, Glimmerglass Opera will host the world premiere of Stephen Hartke's "The Greater Good". The staff at Glimmerglass Opera has created a blog that follows the development of "The Greater Good" from first rehearsal to opening night. This week we will highlight the creative process behind the production.
— Today's feature is:Early Music Rehearsals [] [2006-07-20]

Opera's 'Barber' has fresh spin
It has been a dozen years since Glimmerglass Opera mounted "The Barber of Seville." The wait for a new production proves worthwhile.
The warhorse, yet ever popular in the flimsiest productions because of its memorable music, has been given a fresh spin by stage director Leon Major and is energized by sparkling performances by Aaron St. Clair Nicholson as Figaro, the title figure, and Katherine Goeldner as Rosina.
— Read more at syracuse.com [2006-07-20]

The Greater Good: Challenges in Telling the Story of "The Greater Good"
On July 22nd, Glimmerglass Opera will host the world premiere of Stephen Hartke's "The Greater Good". The staff at Glimmerglass Opera has created a blog that follows the development of "The Greater Good" from first rehearsal to opening night. This week we will highlight the creative process behind the production.
— Today's feature is:Challenges in Telling the Story of "The Greater Good" [] [2006-07-19]

The Greater Good: The Sound of "The Greater Good"
On July 22nd, Glimmerglass Opera will host the world premiere of Stephen Hartke's "The Greater Good". The staff at Glimmerglass Opera has created a blog that follows the development of "The Greater Good" from first rehearsal to opening night. This week we will highlight the creative process behind the production.
— Today's feature is:The Sound of "The Greater Good" [] [2006-07-18]

Season of premieres: Opera
[In addition to some old favorites, Glimmerglass' lineup includes a new opera starring a gifted young soprano]
It's every opera company's worst nightmare, losing its star singer before a historic performance.
That's what Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown faced recently when soprano Christina Pier bowed out of The Greater Good, the Stephen Hartke and Philip Littell opera that receives its world premiere at Glimmerglass on Saturday.
— Read more at Democrat & Chronicle [] [2006-07-18]

Stephen Hartke's First Opera, 'The Greater Good,' Features an Aria for Clanging Soup Spoons
FOR a comically suspenseful moment midway into Act I of his new opera, "The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif," the composer Stephen Hartke struck on a clever musical idea. "It's quite a kick," Mr. Hartke said during a rehearsal break the other day from Cooperstown, N.Y., where the work will have its much-anticipated premiere on Saturday at the Glimmerglass Opera. "It really works nicely."
— Read more at New York Times [] [2006-07-17]

The Greater Good: Stephen's Favorite Operas
On July 22nd, Glimmerglass Opera will host the world premiere of Stephen Hartke's "The Greater Good". The staff at Glimmerglass Opera has created a blog that follows the development of "The Greater Good" from first rehearsal to opening night. This week we will highlight the creative process behind the production.
— Today's feature is:Stephen's Favorite Operas [] [2006-07-17]

The Good life
[With the world premiere of an Eastman-backed production, Glimmerglass Opera shows how it all comes down to sex and food]
If Elizabeth Rousset (known as Boule de Suif) had read her horoscope that morning, she wouldn't have left the house. But she does leave, meeting up with nine other people trying to get from one French town to another during the Franco-Prussian war. They all board a stagecoach (it's 1870) and start their journey across a snowy landscape. That's when the trouble starts. First, it's really snowy and they get stuck in a drift. Second, it didn't occur to them to bring food. They get hungry.
So begins the new opera The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif by composer Stephen Hartke and writer Philip Littell, who based their American opera on a short story by Guy de Maupassant. The same story, "Boule de Suif" ("The Good Whore"), may have also inspired the film Stagecoach.
— Read more at City Newspaper [2006-07-13]

A very model of a modern major "Pirates of Penzance"
["Arrrgghhhh! Where's me Cavallli?" ]
Unless they were Gilbert and Sullivan fans, that might have been the reaction of some Glimmerglass Opera subscribers dismayed and disappointed at the opera company's sudden substitution last fall of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 operetta "The Pirates of Penzance" for Cavalli's 1649 Baroque opera "Giasone," a satire of the Jason and the Golden Fleece myth.
Just a glance at any Glimmerglass Opera season over the last few years reveals an opera company unlike any other American opera company in that rare and underperformed works almost always dominated a Glimmerglass season.
— Read more at The Oneida Daily Dispatch [2006-07-13]

New season will be last for opera's Kellogg, Robertson
This time of year, grand finales should be marked with fireworks, at least figuratively, and that's what Paul Kellogg and Stewart Robertson seem to have in mind for the Glimmerglass Opera.
When this summer's festival ends in August, the two men wind up their tenure as artistic and music director, respectively, and they clearly mean to provide plenty of dazzle and din before they do.
— Read more at CoopersTown Crier [2006-07-13]

Glimmerglass stages a world premiere and an opera in Czech
[Hartke's 'The Greater Good' and Janacek's 'Jenufa' highlight the Cooperstown company's festival season]
The world premiere of a new opera and a Janácek masterpiece - sung in its original Czech - will be highlights of Glimmerglass Opera's 2006 season when the curtain goes up here at the Alice Busch Opera Theater Friday evening.
New productions of Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance" and Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" will round out the company's two-month repertory, which runs through August.
— Read more at The Ithaca Journal See also: Behind the Scenes of "The Greater Good" [2006-07-10]

Glimmerglass Opera's 2005 Productions to Be Broadcast on NPR
Three Glimmerglass Opera productions will be broadcast nationally on National Public Radio's World of Opera this month, the company has announced.
— Read more at PlaybillArt [2006-07-10]

The Rise of American Arias
[Opera lovers needn't head to Europe this summer. In U.S. venues from Seattle to New York, great performances abound.]
When opera lovers dream of summer festivals, their minds turn naturally to Old World spots like Verona, Salzburg, Bayreuth, Glyndebourne or St. Petersburg. Yet summer opera abounds in the New World as well. No matter which of America's top tourist spots you visit, high-quality opera is probably nearby. In Cooperstown, New York, opera lovers at Glimmerglass mingle with baseball fans at the Hall of Fame. Purple-streaked Southwestern sunsets serve as the backdrop for the Santa Fe Opera's covered outdoor theater. In Colorado, the Central City Opera performs in the restored opera house of an abandoned mining town. At the Wolf Trap Opera's outdoor venue, just outside the nation's capital in Washington, D.C., patrons bring picnics. Dozens of other cities, from St. Louis to San Francisco, offer similar fare.
— Read more at MSNBC.com [2006-06-26]

Master class at Glimmerglass
Terrence McNally's 1995 play "Master Class," set during the interim in opera singer Maria Callas' life when she gave 12 master classes at the Juilliard School in 1971, gives a pretty good idea how a master class works.
An opera student enters with a prepared piece and goes to work on it.
Then the acting-vocal coach goes to work on the student.
It's less graphic than what happens in a medical amphitheater, but it can nonetheless be an emotionally messy experience for the student.
— Read more at The Oneida Daily Dispatch [2006-06-23]

Acclaimed Soprano Amy Burton To Give Free Masterclass
Acclaimed soprano Amy Burton will give a masterclass for members of Glimmerglass Opera's acclaimed Young American Artists Program on Friday, June 16, at 2 p.m. in the Fenimore Art Museum Auditorium. Admission is free and the public is invited to attend.
Ms. Burton has enjoyed an incredibly diverse career on both the opera and concert stage, and her performances have been hailed by audiences and critics alike. She received international acclaim for her compelling portrayal of Elle in Poulenc's La Voix Humaine during Glimmerglass Opera's 2005 Festival Season, and in past seasons has performed Alice Ford in Falstaff and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with the company.
— Read more at glimmerglass.com [2006-06-13]

Glimmerglass Opera's Young American Artists Program
Members of Glimmerglass Opera's acclaimed Young American Artists Program will present a series of concerts from April 29 through May 18 at various performance venues throughout the Northeast featuring excerpts from the company's upcoming 2006 Festival Season and other popular operas. The concerts are free and the public is invited to attend.
— Read more at glimmerglass.org [2006-05-04]

'Glimmerglass Opera in Concert' anticipates changes at Glimmerglass for upcoming festival
With just over two months before Glimmerglass Opera's 2006 Festival Season opens on July 7, the effects of the decision to alter the season, announced last fall by Paul Kellogg, the company's out-going artistic director, were felt at the 2006 Young American Artist Spring Tour performance of "Glimmerglass Opera in Concert: A Barber, Pirates, Passion...and More!" in the Otesaga Hotel's ballroom on Saturday night.
— Read more at The Oneida Daily Dispatch [2006-05-03]

Eastman School's offer to composer turns out splendidly for Glimmerglass, too
It's a good thing Stephen Hartke [The Greater Good] actually reads his mail. A few years ago, the noted American composer received an impersonal-looking envelope from the Eastman School of Music's Hanson Institute for American Music. Hartke looked at it briefly but then tossed it aside.
"As far as I could tell it just looked like junk mail, like a solicitation," says Hartke, speaking by phone from his home in Southern California. "When I finally got around to opening it, I was shocked to read that Eastman was offering me a commission to write a substantial work of my choice. It was an incredible gift that fell right in my lap."
— Read more at democratandchronicle.com [2006-05-02]

Glimmerglass Young Artists to Preview 2006 Season in Free Tour
Members of Glimmerglass Opera's Young American Artists Program will appear in a series of free concerts in New York State and New England from April 29-May 16, performing excerpts from the company's upcoming 2006 festival season, including a world-premiere opera.
The tour will include semi-staged arias and ensembles from the company's productions of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Janácek's Jenufa, and Stephen Hartke and Philip Littell's The Greater Good, which will get its word premiere at Glimmerglass this summer.
— Read more at PlaybillArts [2006-04-10]

Glimmerglass Opera Head Michael MacLeod Adds Artistic Director Post
Michael MacLeod, the general director of Glimmerglass Opera, will add the duties of artistic director Paul Kellogg to his portfolio when Kellogg steps down this year, the company announced.Glimmerglass also announced that its 2007 summer season, the first under MacLeod's direction, will consist entirely of operas based on the Orpheus myth: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, Philip Glass's Orphée, and Berlioz's version of Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice.
— Read more at PlaybillArts [] [2006-01-19]

Glimmerglass Cosi to Get Radio Broadcast January 21
Glimmerglass Opera's 2005 production of Mozart's Così fan tutte will be broadcast on NPR's World of Opera as part of the show's celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth.Also on the schedule are Washington National Opera's Don Giovanni on January 14 and a production of Idomeneo from La Scala on January 28.
— Read more at PlaybillArts [2005-12-27]

Making Artistic Trade-Offs at Glimmerglass Opera
Worried about offending moral sensibilities, Glimmerglass Opera has asked the creators of a new work coming next summer to take "whore" out of the title.Officials of Glimmerglass, the summer festival in Cooperstown, N.Y., denied they were being prudish but said the word could have kept patrons away. The composer, Stephen Hartke, and the librettist, Philip Littell, acquiesced, and "Boule de Suif, or The Good Whore," is now being called "The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif."
— Read more at nytimes.com [2005-12-08]

Montréal Opera's 'L'Étoile' is a sexy romp
Gilbert and Sullivan with sex and sophisticated music? In fact, Emmanuel Chabrier's comic operetta "L'Étoile" received one of its early runs at the famous G and S haunt, London's Savoy Theatre.L'Opéra de Montréal opened a charming and hilarious production of this sophisticated comedy Saturday at the Place des Arts' Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. Employing excellent young Canadian singers - largely from Montreal - it benefited from stylish sets and costumes created jointly by Glimmerglass Opera and New York City Opera for their 2001 production.
— Read more at Times Argus [2005-11-11]

REVIEW: "The Mines of Sulphur" at City Opera
Once again City Opera's fall schedule features a contemporary modernist opera. Last year we had Wourinen's overwrought "Haroun and the Sea of Stories." This year the company presents Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's 1965 work "The Mines of Sulphur." A hit at Glimmerglass a few summers ago, let's hope it draws in crowds at the State Theater as well: the opera is very, very good.
— Read more at sequenza21.com [] [2005-10-27]

A Dark and Stormy Night, With Doings to Match
The New York City Opera, sensibly enough, regards its large repertory of standard works in efficient, mostly traditional stagings as its box-office bread and butter. But if you think back over the company's productions of the last 15 years, contemporary works - Zimmermann's "Soldaten," Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," Carlisle Floyd's "Of Mice and Men" and Hugo Weisgall's "Esther" among them - have been the clear highlights. They have typically had short runs and they rarely return, but they are the soul of this company.
Its latest adventure in contemporary opera is Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's "Mines of Sulphur," a Gothic horror tale from 1965. A hit in its early productions, it inexplicably fell off the operatic map until last summer, when the Glimmerglass Opera - City Opera's country cousin, in Cooperstown, N.Y. - presented the staging that made its way to the New York State Theater on Sunday afternoon.
— Read more at New York Times [2005-10-25]

Paul Kellogg to Quit as Head of City Opera
Paul Kellogg said yesterday that he would retire as general and artistic director of the New York City Opera at the end of next season, in 2007, citing his age and the burdens of trying to attract new funds and new audiences.Mr. Kellogg, 68, is in his 10th season at the opera. He will also retire next year as director of the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, N.Y., which he has led since 1979.
— Read more at New York Times [2005-09-16]

Glimmerglass Opera Announces 2006 Season
Glimmerglass Opera's 2006 season will include a new production of Janácek's Jenufa directed by Jonathan Miller and the world premiere of Stephen Hartke's The Greater Good, the Cooperstown, New York, festival announced.The festival takes place at the Alice Busch Opera Theater on Lake Oswego from July 7 to August 29, 2006.
— Read more at PlaybillArts [2005-09-08]

CD review: Haunting tale makes for fitting debut
Glimmerglass Opera's 2005 summer season may end on Tuesday, but great opera will continue.That's because the prestigious Chandos label has just released a recording of Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur, which Glimmerglass Opera recorded last summer at the Alice Busch Opera Theater in Cooperstown. The two-CD set is Glimmerglass' first release on a major label, and it's the premiere recording of Bennett's terrific opera.
— Read more at democratandchronicle.com [2005-08-22]

Glimmerglass Opera Gambles, Audience Wins
Risk-taking in opera is in short supply these days. Which is why a trip to Glimmerglass Opera, the summer festival now in its 30th season, can feel like such a breath of fresh air.Each year the festival chooses four operas, often from the adventurous end of the operatic repertoire. Last year, Richard Rodney Bennett's atonal 1965 "The Mines of Sulphur" proved to be the surprise hit of the summer. This year's intriguing prospects include Benjamin Britten's final operatic masterpiece, "Death in Venice," and a French double bill of one-act operas by Massenet and Poulenc. With one notable exception, the offerings don't disappoint; they're worth the scenic 3?-hour road trip from Hartford.
— Read more at courant.com [2005-08-09]

Glimmerglass Opera's 'Death in Venice' an atmospheric tour de force
There's unlikely to be a shift anytime soon in what is a bread-and-butter opera from 18th and 19th century classical operas to 20th century works such as Berg's "Lulu" and Strauss's "Salome" and "Elektra." So Verdi's "Aida" and Bizet's "Carmen" will just have to do among what are now the bread-and-butter operas of American opera companies that grapple with financial realities.Yet American opera companies often have had their greatest artistic gains with the staging of modern operas such as Benjamin Britten's 1973 "Death in Venice," based on Thomas Mann's 1912 novella, which opened at Glimmerglass Opera's Alice Busch Opera Theater Saturday night.
— Read more at The Oneida Daily Dispatch [2005-07-29]

REVIEW: Cosi fan tutte, Glimmerglass Opera
Così fan tutte always represents a perilous venture. The music is glorious, of course, but the drama is fragile. Should this essentially misogynous period piece, an essay on the eternal infidelity of women, be played for laughs? Should it be probed for contradictions? Does bitterness lurk beneath the fickle froth? Can the plot unravel happily, mate-swapping forgotten and couples reunited, in time for the final cadence?
— Read more at FT.com [2005-07-29]

Children spend time in Venice at Glimmerglass
Some local children are spending part of their summer vacation on a beach in Italy.They are traveling there through their imaginations.In reality, they will be appearing on the stage of the Alice Busch Opera Theater in a Glimmerglass Opera production of "Death in Venice." The modern opera by Benjamin Britten, based on a book by Thomas Mann, tells the story of a famous writer, Aschenbach, who visits Venice and spends time on a beach.
— Read more at thedailystar.com [2005-07-25]

Glimmerglass Opera to Release First-Ever Recording of Mines of Sulphur
The Glimmerglass Opera's 2004 production of Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur will be released on the Chandos label on July 26. The live CD will be the first recording ever issued of the opera.The Mines of Sulphur, a gothic tale about a murderous maid, her henchmen, and a troupe of actors that they encounter, had its world premiere in London in 1965. It has been produced just once since in the U.K. The Glimmerglass staging, the American premiere, came about when another production? a new work by Stephen Hartke? fell through.
— Read more at PlaybillArts [2005-07-21]

NPR to Broadcast Five Glimmerglass Opera Productions
The NPR program World of Opera will broadcast five operas recorded live at the Glimmerglass Opera over the next five weeks.The five productions are drawn from the 2002 and 2004 summer seasons. They include Richard Rodney Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur, Handel's Imeneo, Puccini's La fanciulla del West, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci with Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, and Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites
— Read more at PlaybillArts [2005-07-15]

Soprano shines in Glimmerglass Opera's 'Lucie de Lammermoor'
There is one splendid reason to see Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucie de Lammermoor" at Glimmerglass Opera this season, and her name is Sarah Coburn.A soprano with looks to match her vocal range and strength, Coburn takes on the diva role of Lucie in this love-crazed opera with a ferocity that belies her frail appearance.From her mid-first act entrance to her lengthy, awesome mad scene in the second, Coburn's dazzling portrayal featured a compellingly morphing voice that matched the rousing and capricious Donizetti rhythms, delicately merged with the composer's flavorful flute fantasies, and soared with stunning delight. Her dramatics were sensitive; her stage presence eclipsing.
— Read more at uticaOD.com [2005-07-07]

Photo Journal: Lucie de Lammermoor at Glimmerglass Opera
Lucie de Lammermoor, the rarely seen French version of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, opened at Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York, on July 1.
— Read more at PlaybillArts [2005-07-06]

Glimmerglass begins new opera season
The Glimmerglass Opera is much like the proverbial stone tossed into a pond: The ripples it makes radiate outward long after the stone has dropped from sight.
Founded in Cooperstown in 1975, Glimmerglass mounts a summer festival season that runs no more than eight weeks a year - June 30 through Aug. 23 in 2005 - but the company's influence in the opera world is felt long after the Alice Busch Opera Theater in Springfield Center has been shuttered for the winter.
— Read more at CoopersTown Crier [2005-07-01]

Glimmerglass Opera Names General Director
Glimmerglass Opera has named Michael MacLeod, currently the executive director of the Connecticut's New Haven Symphony, as general director.McLeod will replace Joanna Cossa, who resigned in September 2004 because of illness in her family. He begins his tenure in September.
— Read more at PlaybillArts: News [2005-06-30]

From High Opera to Humble Folk Songs: The Best of Britten
THERE will typically be a performance of "Peter Grimes" or two, and perhaps a "Billy Budd." But the presentations of Britten operas at major American festivals this summer are not so predictable: "Gloriana" next week at the Opera Theater of St. Louis and next month at the Des Moines Metro Opera; "Paul Bunyan" at the Central City Opera in Colorado and "Death in Venice" at Glimmerglass in Cooperstown, N.Y., both beginning in July.
Benjamin Britten, long known to the general musical public for his towering "War Requiem" and even to children for his engaging "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra," is perhaps best known today as an opera composer. Yet his musical output was remarkably broad, running to highly original forms as well as established ones. So it may be a good time to take stock of his multifarious achievement by way of recordings.
— Read more at New York Times [2005-06-13]

New England Premiere of Little Women Opera
The Boston Opera Project will conclude their first season with the New England premiere of Mark Adamo's first opera, Little Women.Louisa May Alcott's classic novel will be presented, through the eyes and ears of Adamo, at 8:00 p.m., June 10th and 18th at First and Second Unitarian Universalist Church, 66 Marlborough Street, Boston, MA, and June 11th and 17th at Fenn School in Concord, MA.All performances will be conducted by Michelle Alexander, who has worked with Boston Lyric Opera, Granite State Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera.
— Read more at expertclick.com [2005-05-20]

Syracuse Opera''Barber of Seville' well done
With Glimmerglass Opera successfully staging underperformed works like Francis Poulenc's "The Dialogues of the Carmelites" in Cooperstown every summer, a second upstate New York opera company that turns out well-done productions of familiar, if overdone, operas is just as an important cultural asset to the region.If Syracuse Opera continues to stage operas as lyrically as they have Gioacchino Rossini's 1816 comic opera "The Barber of Seville," then the niche is theirs and the company can make a credible claim to being more than just upstate New York's only year-round professional opera company.
— Read more at The Oneida Daily Dispatch [2005-03-21]