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Glimmerglass Opera came into being through the efforts of local Cooperstown residents — musicians, |
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Our Mission
"To produce new, little known, and familiar operas and works of music theater in innovative productions which capitalize on the intimacy and natural setting of the Alice Busch Opera Theater; to promote an artistically challenging work environment for young American performers; and to engage important directors, designers and conductors who provide high standards of achievement.
Company History
Glimmerglass Opera came into being through the efforts of local Cooperstown residents — musicians, artists, educators and lovers of the art form — who hoped to bring opera to their community. As the founders wrote in the first season's program, "Cooperstown was chosen because of its glorious natural beauty and its important place in the heritage of America. We believe strongly that a performing arts festival belongs here; that the area is right for it, and that it is right for the area."
The newly-founded 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 before a cumulative audience of 1,200 local residents. In the years since, Glimmerglass has grown to international stature and now offers more than 40 performances of four operas, all in new productions, each season. The community continues its support through local members of the Glimmerglass Opera Chorus, supernumeraries and the Glimmerglass Opera Guild, a volunteer group that assists the company with numerous fund-raisers and special events.
Operas have been performed in repertory since 1990. For the first 17 seasons all operas were sung in English; since 1992 they have, with some exceptions, been performed in their original language with projected English titles.
The company's acclaimed Alice Busch Opera Theater, which opened in June 1987, is located along the shores of Otsego Lake, the "Glimmerglass" of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, on 43 acres of farmland donated by the late Glimmerglass board chairman emeritus, Tom Goodyear, and his mother, Jeanette Bissell Goodyear. The intimate 900-seat theater — the first American hall built specifically for opera in the twenty years following the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera house in 1966 — was designed by Hugh Hardy of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates with acoustics by Peter George Associates. Unusual sliding walls, which allow the audience to enjoy fresh air and views of the surrounding countryside prior to performances and during intermissions, are a unique feature of the theater.
Since its inauguration the Alice Busch Opera Theater has been home to more than 50 different productions, including the world premiere of A Question of Taste, commissioned from William Schuman (1989), the American premiere of Mozart's Il Re Pastore (1991), and, in 1993, the world-premiere production of David Carlson's The Midnight Angel, co-commissioned and co-produced by Glimmerglass with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Sacramento Opera. The 1999 Festival Season featured the world premiere of Central Park, three one-act operas performed as a single work, with scores by Robert Beaser, Deborah Drattell, and Michael Torke to librettos by Terrence McNally, Wendy Wasserstein, and A.R. Gurney. The triptych was jointly commissioned by Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, and Thirteen/WNET's Great Performances, which telecast it on PBS in January 2000, subsequently receiving an Emmy nomination.
Glimmerglass Opera has attracted superior directors, designers and conductors, as well as accomplished performers from around the world. Jonathan Miller, Mark Lamos, Martha Clarke, Francesca Zambello, Simon Callow, Robert Wierzel, Michael Yeargan, David Daniels, Christine Goerke and Lauren Flanigan are among the directors, designers, and singers whose work has been seen and heard at Glimmerglass.
The Young American Artists Program, established in 1988, brings exceptional singers in the first stages of their professional careers to study and perform in the creative and demanding atmosphere of Glimmerglass. These young artists, many of whom hold degrees from prominent conservatories, are chosen annually from hundreds of applicants from throughout the United States. Each summer members of the Young American Artists Program will appear in a mainstage production and give a solo song recital in Cooperstown or Cherry Valley.
Glimmerglass Opera has also played an increasingly prominent role in the musical life of New York City. In January 1996 its acclaimed production of Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea was presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in five sold-out performances, and that same year the company's ties to New York City were further strengthened when Paul Kellogg, General Director of Glimmerglass Opera for seventeen years, was named General and Artistic Director of New York City Opera. With Kellogg as Artistic Director at Glimmerglass, the two companies established an informal partnership in which Glimmerglass productions joined the New York City Opera repertory.
Co-productions with New York City Opera are created at Glimmerglass and have their first performances here, and all decisions about repertory, casting, directors and designers are taken with Glimmerglass Opera's artistic mission and festival requirements as first considerations. Consequently, as Newsday recently noted, "Glimmerglass has become the source of a river of ideas that flows toward Manhattan." Collaborations with other companies, which have included Boston Lyric Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera North, UK, and Houston Grand Opera, will continue as well.
Glimmerglass has been fortunate in the recognition it has received from important sources of funding. They include the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Corning Incorporated, Philip Morris Companies, Inc., The Virgil Thomson Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, The Clark Foundation, The Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation, The International Music and Art Foundation, The Alice Busch Gronewaldt Foundation, The Woodcock Foundation, The Pacificus Foundation, and The Florence Gould Foundation.
The unspoiled beauty of upstate New York's rural landscape provides what The Sunday Times of London has called "the most magical of settings" for Glimmerglass performances. The Glimmerglass experience — an informal picnic with friends on the grounds of the Alice Busch Opera Theater, a leisurely stroll along the lake, champagne under the bright summer stars, and music/theater of international reputation — is unique in the realm of opera.
GETTING TO GLIMMERGLASS
Nestled between the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains on Otsego Lake, Glimmerglass Opera performs in the Alice Busch Opera Theater, on Route 80, eight miles north of the quaint Village of Cooperstown. Details on traveling to Cooperstown can be found by clicking here.
THE ALICE BUSCH OPERA THEATER
Built in 1987, our theater has unique sliding walls that allow fresh air into the theater before the opera and during intermission. During matinees, the walls must remain closed for the consideration of the performers on stage, but the walls are frequently open for evening performances. There is no air conditioning or heat in the opera house, so please dress comfortably and weather-appropriately.
THE GLIMMERGLASS EXPERIENCE
The magic of your Glimmerglass Experience begins when you arrive at our lakeside festival site. This is the perfect summer getaway, surrounded by rolling hills, beautiful parks and crystal-clear lakes. In addition to internationally-acclaimed opera, we're sure you'll love all the festival has to offer. Click here for more information.
COOPERSTOWN FOR THE DAY
Cooperstown is filled with treasures for fans of baseball, American literature, art, antiques, history, chamber music, and even handcrafted beer! Your Glimmerglass Opera customer service representative would be happy to make some recommendations to make the most of your trip. Or, explore the Cooperstown area online by visiting www.cooperstownchamber.org or www.visitcooperstown.com
COOPERSTOWN OVERNIGHT
Make your visit the quintessential Glimmerglass Experience by attending all four productions and taking time to discover the place where heritage and natural beauty come together in the rolling foothills of the northern Catskills - the land of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. Allow our staff to direct you to a variety of top-notch restaurants, or recommend attractions to round out your trip, including Fenimore Art Museum, The Farmers' Museum, Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, Leatherstocking Theatre, Hyde Hall, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Ommegang Brewery, and any number of others. But first, allow us to provide you with a list of overnight accommodations.
PLAY A ROLE
Every summer, the curtain rises on a great Glimmerglass Opera experience: innovative, inspiring productions, exciting young singers, and an intimate opera house in the beautiful countryside of Cooperstown, New York. But great opera doesn't just happen: it needs your help. When you make a charitable contribution to the Glimmerglass Opera Annual Fund, you play a leading role in our success, and can enjoy special privileges including reserved parking, intermission refreshments, and a private ticket line.
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