Seward Obtains $300,000 To Update Glimmerglass COOPERSTOWN – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, this morning announced that, “at his insistence,” $300,000 is included in 2015-16 state budget to help The Glimmerglass Festival in a “significant multi-year renovation project.” Plans include restoring interior walls at the Alice Busch Opera Theater, opening up the lobby to make it more inviting, moving the box office out toward the pond, adding canopies in front and on the sides to shelter patrons from the elements,…
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Glimmerglass Plans National Campaign On 40th Anniversary By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 COOPERSTOWN With the Glimmerglass Festival’s 40th Anniversary arriving, Joan Desens, director of institutional advancement, and June Dzialo, marketing director, want to make sure everyone is invited to the party. “We want to support the community that has supported us,” said Desens. The Festival was one of the relatively few local entities to receive one of Governor Cuomo’s economic-development grants Thursday,…
Glimmerglass, Bassett Help Deter Cancers By Giving Employees Wide-Brimmed Hats COOPERSTOWN – Once again this season, The Glimmerglass Festival has teamed up with the Bassett Cancer Institute and Bluemack Creative Marketing/Promotional Products to combat heat-related illnesses, sunburn and skin cancer by providing staff with wide-brimmed hats. The partnership was inspired by Bassett Cancer Institute radiation oncologist Dr. Naoyuki G. Saito, who says, “I’m a big fan of the Glimmerglass Festival and this was something easy to do that would…
OPERA REVIEWS: All 4 Productions Rolled Out At Glimmerglass Festival Cast of International Excellence In ‘Ariadne’ By ROBERT MOYNIHAN • allotsego.com Richard Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos,” auf Upstate German humor? Supposedly, it doesn’t exist outside Klink’s Stalag on aging TV. An oddity of reputation is that Germany, after two murderous conflagrations, may even now be wrongly cast. Arecent book claims that most “higher things” in the U.S. came from France. Not so. Most of our higher musical culture came from…
American Tragedy, Operatic Triumph? By ROBERT MOYNIHAN • allotsego.com Too many superlatives exist in this Glimmerglass production for reservations – yet a few exist. On the positive side, the staging is brilliant – with multiple levels originally seen in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” However, this staging far surpasses them. The horrible drowning – either by murder or accident – achieves a paradox of representative horror held within emotional bounds. So does the final electrocution, awful, but contained within…
OPERA REVIEW: Glimmerglass’ ‘Carousel’ Offers Talent, Verve, Fine Conducting, Etc. By ROBERT MOYNIHAN • allotsego.com The chief excellence of this production? The young cast members, their talent and verve – with fine orchestral conducting, dancing, and vocal performances – The Hammerstein dialogue, however, must have been written on his off days, with tedious near-rhymes and banalities meant to represent “the folk.”…
Zambello Praised For ‘Lush, Economic’ 2014 Season Opener, ‘Madame Butterfly’ COOPERSTOWN – Albany Times Union critic Joseph Dalton praises “Madame Butterfly,” which last evening launched the Glimmerglass Festival’s 2014 season, as “at once lush and economic, also imaginative yet true to the original drama.” The “guiding hand” of Artistic & General Director Francesca Zambello is evident “in most every way imaginable.” Read Bob Moyhihan’s review in the upcoming editions of The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta.…
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Cooperstown #8 On Fodor’s List Of Best Small Towns COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown, celebrated this spring by “I Love NY” and honored by President Obama’s visit, has another promotional feather in its touristic hat: Fodor’s Travel has just selected it as eighth on a list of ten of “America’s Best Small Towns.” “Cooperstown isn’t just a destination for sports lovers,” the listing says, “with cultural attractions including the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, the annual Glimmerglass Opera season, and the Fenimore Art…
12 Lively Banners Counterbalance ‘Butterfly’ Tragedy At Glimmerglass By JIM KEVLIN for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – “Madame Butterfly” ends in tragedy. Not so with Otto Lilienthal, the little-remembered inventor of the glider, as as George Peters told it while he installed his “Flight Patterns” on the lawn of the Glimmerglass Festival this afternoon. Lilienthal was the rage in Berlin in the 1890s. He built the Fliegerberg (“Aviator’s Hill”) at his home outside the city, and Berliners would picnic there and watch him…