OPERA REVIEW: Glimmerglass’ ‘Carousel’ Offers Talent, Verve, Fine Conducting, Etc. By ROBERT MOYNIHAN • allotsego.com The chief excellence of this production? The young cast members, their talent and verve – with fine orchestral conducting, dancing, and vocal performances – The Hammerstein dialogue, however, must have been written on his off days, with tedious near-rhymes and banalities meant to represent “the folk.”…
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Zambello Praised For ‘Lush, Economic’ 2014 Season Opener, ‘Madame Butterfly’ COOPERSTOWN – Albany Times Union critic Joseph Dalton praises “Madame Butterfly,” which last evening launched the Glimmerglass Festival’s 2014 season, as “at once lush and economic, also imaginative yet true to the original drama.” The “guiding hand” of Artistic & General Director Francesca Zambello is evident “in most every way imaginable.” Read Bob Moyhihan’s review in the upcoming editions of The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta.…
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Cooperstown #8 On Fodor’s List Of Best Small Towns COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown, celebrated this spring by “I Love NY” and honored by President Obama’s visit, has another promotional feather in its touristic hat: Fodor’s Travel has just selected it as eighth on a list of ten of “America’s Best Small Towns.” “Cooperstown isn’t just a destination for sports lovers,” the listing says, “with cultural attractions including the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, the annual Glimmerglass Opera season, and the Fenimore Art…
12 Lively Banners Counterbalance ‘Butterfly’ Tragedy At Glimmerglass By JIM KEVLIN for allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – “Madame Butterfly” ends in tragedy. Not so with Otto Lilienthal, the little-remembered inventor of the glider, as as George Peters told it while he installed his “Flight Patterns” on the lawn of the Glimmerglass Festival this afternoon. Lilienthal was the rage in Berlin in the 1890s. He built the Fliegerberg (“Aviator’s Hill”) at his home outside the city, and Berliners would picnic there and watch him…