2 Musicals, Plus ‘Scalia/Ginsburg,’

Featured By Glimmerglass In 2017

COOPERSTOWN – As the Glimmerglass Festival opens its 2016 season this weekend, it announced its 2017 season, which will include two favorite American musicals,  Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess,” and  Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”

Also, the repeated visits of Supreme Court Justic Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be honored with the production of “Scalia/Ginsburg,” based on her opera-based friendship with her ideological foe, who passed away earlier this year.  It will star 2017 Artist in Residence William Burden.

The four mainstage productions will be rounded out by Handel’s “Xerxes” and Donizetti’s “The Siege of Calais.” The season also includes the world premiere of “Stomping Grounds,” a piece from Victor Simonson and Paige Hernandez that blends hip-hop, spoken word and opera.