OPERA WEEKEND ARRIVES ‘Flute,’ ‘Macbeth,’ ‘Cato,’ ‘Candide’ Performed Lakeside This is one of two summer weekends when all four of the Glimmerglass Festival’s productions are performed in the Alice Busch Opera Theatre on Otsego Lake. Below are reviews of this year’s productions by Pat Thorpe for The Freeman’s Journal (Cooperstown’s newspaper) and Hometown Oneonta, allotsego.com’s sister publications. New Mozart ‘Flute’ ‘Completely Magical’ Big Choruses Bolster Leads In ‘Macbeth’ ‘Cato’ Buoys Reputation For Baroque ‘Candide’ Overcomes ‘Relentless Tinkering’ Check for the SCHEDULE…
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‘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…
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