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.”…
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Edmond Rodriguez, my brother-in-law’s nephew, was in several Glimmerglass Festival performances this season. Like many young artists, he was housed 45 minutes away—at a college dorm in Herkimer. The lack of nearby housing has become chronic for artists and arts patrons alike, as chronicled in a recent “New York Times” article...…
A skilled fundraiser and relationship-builder, Werking-Yip brings more than 15 years of experience in arts administration, strategic development, and storytelling to her new role. According to a press release, she most recently served as director of development and communications at the American Composers Orchestra.…
I read the book, “The House on Mango Street,” and I was particularly interested to see how it worked as an opera. The answer is that the Glimmerglass production, which Sandra Cisneros helped write, is as good as the book.…
Glimmerglass Artistic and General Director Rob Ainsley introduced the author and composer as well as Kelley Rourke, who has worked for The Glimmerglass Festival for more than 14 years as a dramaturg and translator.…
The left wing diatribe forced on the audience consisted of quotations from the 2017 radical pamphlet by the Trump hater Timothy Snyder, which just happens to be prominently featured for sale in the Glimmerglass gift shop.…
Upcoming events at the Springfield Library, the Middlefield Volunteer Fire Department's next fly-in pancake breakfast and new advances in blood stem cell and bone marrow transplants are among the topics covered in this week's news briefs.…
Young writers in the Mohawk Valley—Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery, Oneida, Otsego, Saratoga, and Schoharie counties—were invited to submit stories, poems, or essays inspired by their experiences and their neighborhoods.…
Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School student Adele Beront is the first-prize winner of The Glimmerglass Festival's youth writing competition for grades 7-9, inspired by "The House on Mango Street."…
Cooperstown Central School student Kayleigh Butler is the first-prize winner of The Glimmerglass Festival's youth writing competition for grades 10-12, inspired by "The House on Mango Street."…
