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Sneak Peek of the 2010 YAAPs

Soprano Eleni Calenos and mezzo-soprano Annie Rosen will sing at The Otesaga Resort Hotel’s 2010 Open House on Thursday, April 15, at 6 p.m. The open house is free and open to the public. Continue reading

Spring Gala to Benefit Young American Artists Program

Our Spring Gala will be here before we know it. Didn’t March go by quickly? On April 27, Glimmerglass Opera will host its 2010 Gala at The Metropolitan Club in NYC, at which we will honor award-winning filmmaker James Ivory. … Continue reading

ArtsOtsego: County Arts Organizations Stick Together

June and I attended a quarterly ArtsOtsego meeting this morning at Orpheus Theatre’s Rowe House in Oneonta. Representatives from several arts organizations were in attendance, including those from Catskill Symphony Orchestra, Cooperstown Art Association, Catskill Choral Soceity, Oneonta Concert Association … Continue reading

Trip to Utica

Tomorrow, June, Michael MacLeod and I are taking a day trip to Utica to visit Steve Merren, Vice President & General Manager at Nexstar Broadcasting. Michael will be interviewed regarding the 2010 Festival for future airing. I hope we don’t get lost. Update: … Continue reading

No Snow Days for Glimmerglass

We are currently under winter storm warnings and watches through Friday. It snowed at least five inches last night. So today, in between projects, we had lessons on how to use the company snow plow over at Malton Place, one … Continue reading

NYCO Visits in Preparation for Partenope

We had visitors from New York City Opera last week. Members of the company’s props department joined us in Cooperstown for the day to gather materials for NYCO’s upcoming production of Partenope, set to open April 3.  The set of Partenope, originally a co-production with Glimmerglass … Continue reading

Get Off the Sidelines

In high school being on your favorite band’s street team was “the thing to do.” It created a “deeply intimate” connection between you and the band. You were hand-selected (okay, you mailed a postcard with your address and they mailed … Continue reading

Five Ways to Gift Opera Tickets to Your Valentine

In honor of Valentine’s Day, Glimmerglass Opera partnered with Cooperstown’s Hoffman Lane Bistro to create Cupid’s Perfect Pair – a special discounted package for dinner and an opera. (Hoffman Lane offers an excellent creamy tomato basil soup and hangar steak … Continue reading

Around the Arts

As part of our work with Glimmerglass Opera, June (marketing & pr manager) and I are participants in ArtsOtsego, Otsego County’s alliance of arts organizations. Because of our association with ArtsOtsego, every eight weeks one of us writes a column for The Daily … Continue reading

Anthony Roth Costanzo Soothes Our Cabin Fever

Every year since 2005, Glimmerglass Opera has collaborated with the Fenimore Art Museum and the Baseball Hall of Fame to sponsor the Cabin Fever Film Series. The film screenings are free and open to the public and run on Fridays in January … Continue reading