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2011 Festival: July 2 –August 23
The 2011 Festival will offer a blend of tradition and innovation. Four new productions remain the center of our season, supplemented by an array of engaging events – cabarets, concerts, master classes, discussions, a symposium series and more. We hope you will join us in 2011 as we expand The Glimmerglass Experience.
The Festival artists include Anne Bogart, Amy Burton, Rod Gilfry, Nathan Gunn, Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally, John Musto, David Pittsinger, Jeanine Tesori and Festival Artist in Residence Deborah Voigt.
To see the 2011 Festival calendar, click here.
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Carmen (Bizet/Meilhac & Halévy)
A gypsy woman who heeds no law but her own, the fiery Carmen is caught between a corporal and a toreador. Bizet's masterful score, bursting with tunes, is one of the most popular operas in the repertory – and with good reason! Ginger Costa-Jackson sings the title role. Adam Diegel returns to Glimmerglass as Don José after his performance this summer as Cavaradossi in Tosca. The production will be directed by Anne Bogart, who serves as the Artistic Director for the SITI Company and whose work was last seen at Glimmerglass in 2008 with Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi. Glimmerglass Music Director David Angus will conduct.
Medea (Cherubini/Hoffman)
Betrayal and revenge are at the core of many great dramas, but the story of the Greek Princess Medea -- with her shocking response to her husband's infidelity -- surely tops them all. Don't miss this opportunity to see Cherubini's rarely performed version of Euripides's famous tragedy. The role of Medea, the scorned wife who will stop at nothing for revenge, will be sung by Alexandra Deshorties in her role and company debut.Jason Collins, seen last summer in Seattle Opera’s Ring Cycle, will sing the tenor role of Jason. Wendy Bryn Harmer, a graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, will sing the role of Glauce. The role of King Creon will be sung by David Pittsinger, last seen at Glimmerglass in 2005 as The Traveller and The Elderly Fop in Death in Venice. Englishman Michael Barker-Caven, known for his work in London’s West End and the Royal Opera House, will direct and Italy native Daniele Rustioni will conduct, both in their U.S. debuts.
Annie Get Your Gun (Berlin/Fields)
As part of the company’s mission to produce new, little-known and familiar operas and works of music theater, The Glimmerglass Festival will offer an annual production of an American musical theater piece performed in the way it was first heard with full orchestra and chorus and without amplification. Based on the real-life romance of Anine Oakley and Frank Butler, Annie Get Your Gun contains some of Irving Berlin's best-known tunes: "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better," "I Got Lost in His Arms," "There's No Business Like Show Business," and many more. Leading dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt will sing the title role. Although Voigt is internationally revered in the operas of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, and is noted for portrayals of such Italian operatic heroines as Tosca and Aida, she has also sung Broadway and popular songs in recital and in special cabaret presentations. Rod Gilfry will sing the role of Frank Butler, Annie’s love interest. Gilfry is a two-time GRAMMY nominee who can currently be seen as Emile de Becque in the U.S. National Tour of the Lincoln Center Production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific. Francesca Zambello, known for both her opera and theater productions, will direct. Kevin Stites, who has served as Music Director for almost a dozen Broadway productions, will conduct.
Double Bill
A Blizzard in Marblehead Neck (Tesori/Kushner)
The world premiere of A Blizzard in Marblehead Neck will be inspired by an episode in the life of playwright Eugene O’Neill. This will be the first operatic composition for Jeanine Tesori, who is well-known for her scores on Broadway, including Shrek The Musical and Tony Award-winning Caroline, or Change. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner will provide the original libretto; Kushner is acclaimed for his Tony Award–winning play, Angels in America, which was later turned into a mini-series. His other plays include A Bright Room Called Day, Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul. He wrote the book for Tesori’s Caroline, or Change and the screenplays for Mike Nichols's film Angels in America and Steven Spielberg's Munich. Zambello will direct A Blizzard in Marblehead Neck.
Later the Same Evening (Musto/Campbell)
Originally commissioned by the National Gallery of Art, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the University of Maryland, Later the Same Evening is a one-act opera inspired by five paintings of American icon Edward Hopper. The opera is written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer John Musto and award-winning librettist Mark Campbell, who previously collaborated on the highly successful comic opera, Volpone, for Wolf Trap Opera. Later the Same Evening imagines the lives of the figures in Hopper’s paintings and weaves a narrative that connects them – both tangentially and directly – on a single night in New York City in 1932. The production will feature Patricia Schuman in the role of Estelle Oglethorpe. Baritone Jake Gardner will perform the role of Ronaldo Cabral. Gardner returns to Glimmerglass after performances as Jupiter in the company’s 2007 production of Orpheus in the Underworld. Leon Major, who directed Later the Same Evening’s 2007 premiere to critical acclaim, will direct; David Angus will conduct.
