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The Glimmerglass Festival, the summer opera and musical theater festival in Cooperstown, New York, has announced plans for a re-imagined live season of…
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In the musical Showboat, the character Joe sings about racism and inequality, as he watches how things change and stagnate along the river and in the…
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On the surface of things, the plot of the new opera Blue is the simplest human story of all.Two people fall in love and have a baby. But Blue, the new…
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Christmas Eve, during the first year of World War I, soldiers from opposite sides put aside their differences and the war they were fighting to spend time…
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One of the operas on stage at the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY this year is the Pulitizer Prize-winning Silent Night – based on a true story…
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Last summer, when Musa Ngqungwana made his debut in the title role of the Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at the Glimmerglass Festival, he discovered that life…
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After Robert Ward left The Eastman School of Music in the 1930’s, he went on to study with Aaron Copland. Ward crafted a musical language that would earn…