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Quality singing in a setting with novel accents at Glimmerglass

Francesca Zambello sets the whole opera as a flashback, showing, during the prelude, the heroine surrounded by doctors and nurses in a sanatorium for patients dying from tuberculosis.
Glimmerglass resurrects The Ghosts of Versailles

Musically and dramatically, Jay Lesenger's production makes a strong case for John Corigliano's sole opera.
Eric Owens’ Forester the highlight of Glimmerglass' Vixen

A production that veers close to the Disneyesque but still provides plenty to enjoy.
Donizetti rarity given American première at Glimmerglass

The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New York always does themed seasons. This year the season was about the idea of home. As such, the production directed by Francesca Zambello was updated from the Middle Ages to a modern-day refugee camp.
Handel's Xerxes comes to Glimmerglass

Handel’s Xerxes (1738) was part of this year’s “home and homeland” season at Glimmerglass Festival.
Zambello’s Porgy and Bess at Glimmerglass

Glimmerglass’ Porgy and Bess proves one more time that Gershwin’s opus remains America’s most important 20th-century opera.