Glimmerglass’ Zambello Advises Fans: Decision On Season Due In Two Weeks ‘Sound Of Music’ Opening Due On July 11 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – In a letter to the “Glimmerglass family” dated today, Artistic & Creative Director Francesca Zambello said “possible scenarios on the 2020 schedule are being examined” and it will be for “the next two weeks” before a decision is made on the future of the upcoming season. During that time, “we will be…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Summertime In Winter Concert WINTER CARNIVAL – All Day. Info at www.cooperstownwintercarnival.com CONCERT – 3 p.m. Enjoy mix of American music for ‘Good Ol’ Summertime in Winter’ concert. Beat the winter blues with pieces like Carousel, America The Beautiful, more performed by Oneonta Community Concert Band. FoxCare Center, 1 FoxCare Dr., Oneonta. 607-432-7085.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Oldest Otsego County Race Continues WINTER CARNIVAL – All Day. Info at www.cooperstownwintercarnival.com WINTER RACE – 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Annual 5k/10k Bob Smullens Race through Cooperstown. Oldest continuously held race in Otsego County. Cost, $20/person. Registration 10:30 a.m. Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown. 607-547-2800, ext. 111 or visit www.clarksportscenter.com/events/2020-bob-smullens-5k10k-race/ …
Glimmerglass’ ‘Blue’ Among NY Times’ Best COOPERSTOWN — The Glimmerglass Festival’s premiere, “Blue,” is on the New York Times’ list of Best Classical Music of 2019. Here’s the citation: “The composer Jeanine Tesori, best known for her Tony Award-winning musical ‘Fun Home,’ and the librettist-director Tazewell Thompson tell the story of a striving black family in Harlem with a rebellious teenage son who’s incensed over police intimidation of young black men.…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for MONDAY, AUGUST 12 See Oneonta’s Ninja Warrior In The Finals SCREENING – 6:30 p.m. See Oneonta’s Ninja Warrior compete in Baltimore City Finals on the big screen. Features door prizes, mini obstacles, refreshments. Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta. 607-431-2080 or visit foothillspac.org…
Ta-Nehisi Coates Talks Arts, Reparations At Glimmerglass By JENNIFER HILL • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Described as “the greatest essayist on race in America since James Baldwin,” Ta-Nehisi Coates did not mince words as he replied to pre-submitted questions read aloud by moderator Teresa Miller, SUNY system’s chief diversity officer, at The Glimmerglass Festival’s Alice Busch Opera Theater yesterday. “A majority of Americans have deeply misunderstood how deep white supremacy runs in America,” he told the packed theater. “We…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 Jaybird Street Trio Perform In Neahwa Park SUMMER CONCERT – 7 p.m. Enjoy musical performance by Jaybird Street Trio. Bandstand near Hodges Pond, Neahwa Park, Oneonta. 607-432-7997 or visit oneonta.ny.us/departments/parks-and-recreation/summer-concert-series/…
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Reparations Advocate, Due At Glimmerglass COOPERSTOWN – Best-selling author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose influential 2014 article in the Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations” was revisited last month in a New Yorker interview, will speak at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, at The Glimmerglass Festival’s Alice Busch Opera Theater. The discussion will be moderated by Teresa Miller, the SUNY system’s chief diversity officer. A Q&A session follows the discussion. Coates, national correspondent for the Atlantic magazine until earlier…
Broadway Musicals Are Nation’s Operas, Glimmerglass Staple By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Since Francesca Zambello became general & music director at the Glimmerglass Festival in 2011, one show has been in the back of her mind. “I’ve always wanted to do ‘Show Boat’,” she said. “It’s one that I’ve always had on our docket.” The Oscar Hammerstein-penned musical, which deals with family and racism in post-Reconstruction Mississippi, is set to open the festival season this Saturday,…
Glimmerglass Festival Announces ‘Sound of Music,’ ‘Don Giovanni’ As Part of Summer 2020 Season COOPERSTOWN – “The Sound of Music” and Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” will lead the 2020 season of the Glimmerglass Festival, the opera company announced today. The festival, which starts July 11, 2020, will also include Wagner’s Die Feen (The Fairies) and Handel’s Rinaldo. Selections for the season serve as a survey for the development of these famed creators, with the slate featuring formative operas from Wagner and…
