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A world premiere opera about the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the intrepid troupe of African American singers who changed music history. 

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

Emotionally-engaged performance of Weill's Apartheid Opera. 

A righteous, politically-relevant but musically questionable world premiere of Philip Glass' revised Appomattox.

Today, Vivaldi’s operas remain rarities. The American première of Cato in Utica at the Glimmerglass Festival (located an hour south of Utica, NY) attempted to elevate this little explored corner of Baroque repertoire.

The seldom-seen opera musical Lost in the Stars found prominence Friday night, enrapturing a full house at Glimmerglass Festival in New York, moving some of the actors themselves to tears, and stirring the audience to its feet for curtain call.

From the opening glissandos of Britten's opera, we know this is not Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Where the Mendelssohn / Balanchine ballet is romantic, dreamy and reminiscent of an illustrated fairytale, Britten's opera borders on the nightmarish and eerie.