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Peter Macris

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The Partial Observer: From Glimmerglass to the Met

That journey began when I was 14 years old and living in Cooperstown. I never could have imagined I would end up on the stages of New York City’s Metropolitan Opera and London’s Royal Albert Hall, singing duets with Luciano Pavarotti. At that time, I was just a kid playing in the high-school band, and I heard about something called “Glimmerglass.”…
October 16, 2025
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Peter Macris; Glimmerglass, Foothills Founder

IN MEMORIAM:  Peter Macris; Glimmerglass, Foothills Founder Editor’s Note:  Cooperstown’s Sam Goodyear has alerted us that Peter Macris, founder of Orpheus Theater, the Glimmerglass Opera and the Foothills Performing Arts Center, passed away early Saturday.  In recent years he has been living in Suffield, Conn., near his daughter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.  Meanwhile, here is an appreciation of Macris that Goodyear delivered in 2008 at a testimonial for the giant figure in the development of Otsego County’s arts community. PETER…
January 10, 2016

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