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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 Print A Pumpkin Tealight 3D TINKERING – 6 p.m. Tinkering Tuesdays return with opportunity to create pumpkin tealight with TinkerCAD, to be printed by October. Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut St., Oneonta. 607-432-1980 or visit hmloneonta.org/adult-programs/…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14 Folk Music For The Inn CONCERT – 6:30-8 p.m. Fetish Lane performs folk and bluegrass to benefit inns restoration. Free will donations. Major’s Inn, 104 Marion Ave., Gilbertsville. 607-783-2967 or visit www.themajorsinn.com…
New Parking Lot Packed As Brookwood Is Reborn Traffic – pedestrian traffic – was steady throughout the day and the new parking lot was filled as the 22-acre Brookwood Point nature refuge and non-motorized recreation hub celebrated its Grand Reopening under the auspices of the Otsego Land Trust. Entertainment (such as in top photo of John Sullivan & Friends – Hannah Kubica, right, of Little Falls, and John Phillips, left, of Cooperstown) was the order of the day, plus kayaking (see Brent Baysinger…
NIGHT AT THE OPERA Great Score Overcomes Bland ‘Sweeney’ Setting By PAT THORPE • Review for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” has been described as “operatic” since its debut in 1979 and it didn’t take long for this musical thriller to move to the opera house. John DeMain conducted Sweeney’s operatic debut in 1984 and has probably led more performances than anyone on Earth – very good reasons the Glimmerglass Festival orchestra sails with confidence and power through…
‘Candide’ Overcomes ‘Relentless Tinkering’ Review By PAT THORPE for www.allotsego.com The musical “Candide,” now in a glittering production at the Glimmerglass Festival, is one of Broadway’s favorite death and resurrection stories. When it opened in 1956, it boasted a roster of bold-face talent: Tyrone Guthrie; Leonard Bernstein; Dorothy Parker; Richard Wilbur; Lillian Hellman. In spite of irresistible music and some of the wittiest lyrics ever to reach the stage, “Candide” closed after 73 performances. In 1974, with a rewritten book…
‘Cato’ Buoys Reputation For Baroque Review by PAT THORPE for www.allotsego.com For more than 20 years, Glimmerglass Opera has brought baroque opera to life, convincing audiences that opera from the 17th and 18th centuries overflows with compelling drama and beautiful music. But even baroque enthusiasts were puzzled at the choice of “Cato in Utica,” by Antonio Vivaldi, for the 40th Anniversary season. Vivaldi is a fount of melody in his familiar orchestral writing, but as an opera composer – he…
Big Choruses Bolster Leads In ‘Macbeth’ Review by PAT THORPE for www.allotsego.com I prefer Shakespeare to all dramatists,” wrote Guiseppe Verdi. Verdi knew the plays intimately, and that knowledge suffuses three of his greatest operas. “Macbeth,” Verdi’s 10th opera, was his first attempt to translate Shakespeare and a success from its earliest days. The opera is remarkably true to the original, but one of the most dramatic changes is evident even before the curtain goes up on this new production by…
New Mozart ‘Flute’ ‘Completely Magical’ Review by PAT THORPE for www.allotsego.com “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Don Giovanni,” “Cosi fan Tutti” – in five years, Mozart and collaborator Lorenzo Da Ponte produced one hit show after another and changed the shape of opera forever. But by 1791, Da Ponte was gone and Mozart began working with friend and fellow Freemason Emmanuel Schikaneder on a comic fairy tale for the general public, not just the Viennese elite, a return to the singspiel…