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Glimmerglass Festival June – 15/16 For the opera aficionado or novice alike, this unforgettable experience offers an intimate opportunity to see and experience the inner workings of the Festival. Tour the Glimmerglass Festival grounds and witness skilled craftsman build the elaborate sets and costumes. Your knowledgeable tour guides encourage open dialogue and are happy to answer your most burning questions about the industry and company. In the afternoon, use your exclusive Backstage Pass to observe a 2011 Glimmerglass Festival rehearsal, which is closed to non-company members, and fully immerse yourself in the theatrical process. The Inn at Cooperstown is proud to announce a very special and limited one-of-a-kind Glimmerglass Festival experience. The Glimmerglass Festival is a world-class performing arts company nestled on the beautiful shore of Otsego Lake. An internationally renowned summer festival, Glimmerglass is dedicated to producing new, little-known and familiar operas and works of music theater every July and August in new and innovative productions which capitalize on the intimacy and natural setting of the Alice Busch Opera Theater. The first season under new Artistic & General Director Francesca Zambello, the 2011 Festival features new productions of Bizet’s Carmen, Cherubini’s Medea, Berlin’s Annie Get Your Gun and a double bill of two new operas highlighting American artists. The double bill features the world-premiere of A Blizzard On Marblehead Neck, a Glimmerglass-commissioned work about an episode in playwright Eugene O’Neill’s life by composer Jeanine Tesori and playwright Tony Kushner, and the professional premiere of John Musto and Mark Campbell’s acclaimed Later the Same Evening based on five Edward Hopper paintings. The four productions run in rotation in the Alice Busch Opera Theater, July 2 through August 23, 2011. Tickets start at $26 and range to $126. Artistic & General Director Zambello is a leading opera and theater director. In addition to her work at Glimmerglass, she serves as the Artistic Advisor of San Francisco Opera, where she is directing a new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle. Her work has been seen at the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, the Bolshoi, Covent Garden, the Munich Staatsoper, Paris Opera, New York City Opera, Washington National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and English National Opera. She has staged plays and musicals on Broadway, at the Royal National Theatre, BAM, the Guthrie Theater, Vienna’s Raimund Theater, the Bregenz Festival, Sydney Festival, Disneyland, Berlin’s Theater des Westens and at the Kennedy Center. She has been awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government for her contribution to French culture, and the Russian Federation’s medal for Service to Culture. Her theatrical honors include three Olivier Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, two French Grand Prix des Critiques, Helpmann Award, Green Room Award, Palme d’Or in Germany and the Golden Mask in Russia. She has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Juilliard and Yale. As an American who grew up in Europe, she speaks French, Italian, German and Russian. Package includes:
Lunch Selection: Pick Your Package Day 1 3:00 PM or later Arrive at the inn Day 2 8:00 – 9:30 AM Breakfast at the Inn at Cooperstown 10:30 – 12:00 AM VIP Backstage tour of the Glimmerglass Festival 12:00 – 12:30 PM Educational discussion with Glimmerglass Festival staff member 12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch and free time 1:30 – 3:00 PM Experience a 2011 Glimmerglass Festival rehearsal Day 3 8:00 – 9:30 AM Breakfast at the inn 11:00 AM Checkout Pricing: | |||||||||||||
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