I met Ruth Bader Ginsberg at The Glimmerglass Festival. She was standing behind me at the bar. I turned to her and asked, “What’ll you have, Judge ?” She looked up, “White wine.” I turned to the bartender, got the wine and handed it to the judge while her bodyguards glared at me.…
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The Hupper Family Festival Artists program builds on Glimmerglass’s renowned Resident Artists Program by offering additional performance opportunities, exposure and career support to artists at a pivotal point in their professional journey, officials said.…
“It is deeply meaningful to our organization, artists, and audiences to have The Clark Foundation offer this challenge to us,” said Robert Ainsley, artistic and general director of The Glimmerglass Festival. “Their generosity empowers us to go even further in our efforts to support the future of the festival as an international destination and training ground for the next generation of performers and production professionals.”…
The Guild of the Glimmerglass Festival has scheduled two “A Day at the Festival for Students” events this summer to make it easy for young people and their families or chaperones to learn about opera and to attend a performance.…
Before too long, when summer will be upon us, there will be soaring solos, passionate duets, gentle trios, and lofty choruses wafting down Otsego Lake from The Glimmerglass Festival, the eminent opera company celebrating its 50th year.…
Francesca Zambello is the artistic and general director, emerita of the Glimmerglass Festival. She currently holds the position of artistic director at the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center. She travels the globe as a freelance opera and theater director and makes her home in Richfield Springs with her family. "Travels with 'Cesca” is excerpted from “Francesca’s Traveling iPad,” an e-newsletter that has been ongoing since 2011.…
All performances are offered at the Foothill’s The Loft at 34 Market Street. Because the performances are broadcasts of live presentations at the Met, they will begin at 1 p.m., except for the production of “Aida,” which will begin at 12:30 pm.…
This season’s shows included the delightfully puerile farce, “The Pirates of Penzance,” which should appeal to younger audiences, and “Calisto,” a baroque gender-bender that didn’t play at La Scala until 2017, coincidentally the same year that “Elizabeth Cree,” an experimental whodunit based on Jack the Ripper, premiered.…
Congratulations to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, just 15 years short of its 100th Induction, from “The Freeman’s Journal,” which has been around for all those ceremonies. Please be safe, friendly, thoughtful and polite, everyone, as you navigate through the widely diverse crowd of visitors, all of whom are entirely focused on celebrating the achievements of the four inductees.…
Based on Cisneros’ iconic novel of the same name, the opera brings to life the captivating story of a young Mexican-American girl growing up in Chicago as she charts her path to adulthood, taking inspiration from her neighborhood and finding her voice as a writer.…
