HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 Test Your Science Knowledge SCIENCE TRIVIA – 7 – 9 p.m. Test your knowledge science with your friends or play solo with the A. J. Read Science Discovery Center. Registration required. 607-436-2011 or visit www.facebook.com/AJReadSDC/ for info. COVID-19 TESTING – 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Stop in for free Covid Test with results in 15 minutes. Help stop the spread. Testing by appointment only. 3 locations in Oneonta. Oneonta Armory, 4 Academy St.; Foothills Performing Arts…
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HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 Art & Music In The City Of The Hills ART & MUSIC FESTIVAL – 10 a.m – 4 p.m. Find vintage items, collectibles, art, more and enjoy variety of musical performances at City of the Hills Art & Music Festival. Main St., Oneonta. Visit cityofthehillsartsfestival.com…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 ‘The Willow Girl’ Puppet Show Opens PUPPET SHOW – 7:30 p.m. Catskill Puppet Theater presents, “The Willow Girl,” about adventures of 3 young immigrant children and a magical willow tree on the American Frontier. Free, suggested donation $20/person. Franklin Stage Company, 25 Institute St., Franklin. 607-829-3700 or visit www.franklinstagecompany.org…
Otsego Lakeside Setting Makes Macbeth ‘Exceptionally Evocative’ By LIBBY CUDMORE • AllOTSEGO.com Theater Review COOPERSTOWN – Is there any venue better for seeing Shakespeare than outside? The Fenimore Art Museum’s newly opened Lucy B. Hamilton Amphitheater seems almost custom-built for the Glimmer Globe Theatre Company’s production of “Macbeth,” with iron bars, a smooth slate stage and carved hillside for seating. Performed Aug. 5, 12 and 19, and directed by Austin McCaslin-Doyle, who also leant his directorial skills to White Knuckle Production’s “Dial…
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…
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…