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Glimmerglass Festival Announces Hupper Family Festival Artists Program

JACK AND JOYCE HUPPER
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COOPERSTOWN—The Glimmerglass Festival has announced the launch of the Hupper Family Festival Artists program, a new initiative designed to provide rising operatic and musical theater talent with a critical stepping stone between training and full-fledged professional careers. According to a press release, the program is made possible through a family gift in memory of longtime Glimmerglass trustee and devoted arts advocate Joyce McC. Hupper and her husband John R. (Jack) Hupper. The program will support two early-career singers each summer, beginning with mezzo-soprano Taylor-Alexis DuPont and bass Sergio Martinez as the inaugural Festival Artists for the 2025 season.

The Hupper Family Festival Artists program builds on Glimmerglass’s renowned Resident Artists Program by offering additional performance opportunities, exposure and career support to artists at a pivotal point in their professional journey, officials said.

“In today’s rapidly changing arts landscape, many of the vital intermediate opportunities that once nurtured early-career artists have dwindled,” the press release reads. “The Hupper Family Festival Artists program is Glimmerglass’ bold response: a sustained, artist-centered initiative to keep talent thriving on our stages.

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