HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, AUGUST 12 See Oneonta’s Ninja Warrior In The Finals SCREENING – 6:30 p.m. See Oneonta’s Ninja Warrior compete in Baltimore City Finals on the big screen. Features door prizes, mini obstacles, refreshments. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-431-2080 or visit foothillspac.org…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Talks Arts, Reparations At Glimmerglass By JENNIFER HILL • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Described as “the greatest essayist on race in America since James Baldwin,” Ta-Nehisi Coates did not mince words as he replied to pre-submitted questions read aloud by moderator Teresa Miller, SUNY system’s chief diversity officer, at The Glimmerglass Festival’s Alice Busch Opera Theater yesterday. “A majority of Americans have deeply misunderstood how deep white supremacy runs in America,” he told the packed theater. “We…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 Jaybird Street Trio Perform In Neahwa Park SUMMER CONCERT – 7 p.m. Enjoy musical performance by Jaybird Street Trio. Bandstand near Hodges Pond, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. 607-432-7997 or visit oneonta.ny.us/departments/parks-and-recreation/summer-concert-series/…
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Reparations Advocate, Due At Glimmerglass COOPERSTOWN – Best-selling author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose influential 2014 article in the Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations” was revisited last month in a New Yorker interview, will speak at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, at The Glimmerglass Festival’s Alice Busch Opera Theater. The discussion will be moderated by Teresa Miller, the SUNY system’s chief diversity officer. A Q&A session follows the discussion. Coates, national correspondent for the Atlantic magazine until earlier…
Broadway Musicals Are Nation’s Operas, Glimmerglass Staple By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Since Francesca Zambello became general & music director at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2011, one show has been in the back of her mind. “I’ve always wanted to do ‘Show Boat’,” she said. “It’s one that I’ve always had on our docket.” The Oscar Hammerstein-penned musical, which deals with family and racism in post-Reconstruction Mississippi, is set to open the festival season this Saturday,…
Glimmerglass Festival Announces ‘Sound of Music,’ ‘Don Giovanni’ As Part of Summer 2020 Season COOPERSTOWN – “The Sound of Music” and Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” will lead the 2020 season of the Glimmerglass Festival, the opera company announced today. The festival, which starts July 11, 2020, will also include Wagner’s Die Feen (The Fairies) and Handel’s Rinaldo. Selections for the season serve as a survey for the development of these famed creators, with the slate featuring formative operas from Wagner and…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19 Glimmerglass Fest Season Preview CONCERT – 7 p.m. Young Artists present “Glimmerglass Festival,” a season preview, in Bandstand/Covered Pavilion. Spring Park, US Rte. 20, Richfield Springs. Info, 315-858-0964.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12 Celebrate Birth Of Baseball Hall Of Fame BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION – 9 a.m. Learn about the historic events in 1939 while celebrating the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 80th birthday. Baseball Hall of Fame, 25 Main St., Cooperstown. Info, www.baseballhall.org/, 607-547-7200.…
‘La Traviata,’ ‘Showboat’ Tickets On Sale For Glimmerglass Festival COOPERSTOWN – Tickets for The Glimmerglass Festival’s 2019 season are now on sale. The Glimmerglass Festival’s 2019 season mainstage productions include Kern’s “Show Boat,” Verdi’s “La traviata,” Corigliano’s “The Ghosts of Versailles” and the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s “Blue.”…
Justice Ginsburg To Return To ’19 Glimmerglass Festival COOPERSTOWN – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will once again be on hand to speak about her passion for opera and her perspective on law in the arts at The Glimmerglass Festival next July. This is Justice Ginsburg’s sixth time presenting at The Glimmerglass Festival. She last appeared in 2017, when she spoke following a performance of Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg. Her talk will also feature members of the Glimmerglass Young…
