NIGHT AT THE OPERA Great Score Overcomes Bland ‘Sweeney’ Setting By PAT THORPE • Review for www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” has been described as “operatic” since its debut in 1979 and it didn’t take long for this musical thriller to move to the opera house. John DeMain conducted Sweeney’s operatic debut in 1984 and has probably led more performances than anyone on Earth – very good reasons the Glimmerglass Festival orchestra sails with confidence and power through…
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Quinn Bernegger Is Beadle Bamford In Tri-Cities Opera’s ‘Sweeney Todd’ COOPERSTOWN – Quinn Bernegger, CCS 2009, will perform the role of Beadle Bamford this weekend in the Tri-Cities Opera production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St., Binghamton. Click here to buy tickets Quinn, who attended Middlebury College, is the son of Sandy Peevers, Cooperstown, and Jim Bernegger, now…