Glimmerglass Opera is an opera company which was founded in 1975 by Peter Macris and presents an annual season of operas at the Alice Busch Opera Theater on the lake eight miles (13 km) north of Cooperstown, New York, United States.
The summer-only season usually consists of four operas performed in rotating repertory. Glimmerglass is well-known for producing new, lesser-known, and rare works, many of which are co-produced with the New York City ...
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Glimmerglass Opera is an opera company which was founded in 1975 by Peter Macris and presents an annual season of operas at the Alice Busch Opera Theater on the lake eight miles (13 km) north of Cooperstown, New York, United States.
The summer-only season usually consists of four operas performed in rotating repertory. Glimmerglass is well-known for producing new, lesser-known, and rare works, many of which are co-produced with the New York City Opera. It is the second-largest summer opera festival in the United States, led by Artistic and General Director Michael MacLeod and Associate Artistic Director John Conklin.
The company presented its first season in the summer of 1975, when four performances of La bohème were staged in the auditorium of the Cooperstown High School. In the years since, it has grown considerably and now offers more than 40 performances of four operas, nearly always in new productions, each summer.
Operas have been performed in repertory since 1990. For the...
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