GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL Four Operas in New Productions; Jamie Barton Concert Thursday, August 11th through Sunday, August 14th

Otesaga Hotel and golf course on Lake Otsego

“Some of the most adventurous and innovative opera productions in ductions. Now under the leadership of the dynamic General & New York take place far from Manhattan, in the upstate village of Coop - Artistic Director Francesca Zambello , the 2016 Festival promises erstown. Glimmerglass is respected throughout the international to be equally stimulating. Maintaining the company’s proven opera community for the consistently high quality of its productions.” record of refreshing stagings, all of the operas will again be Vanity Fair presented in new productions . This summer marks the forty-first season of the firmly established The Glimmerglass Festival: “There it is, a democratic and aston - Festival. All opera enthusiasts owe it to themselves to discover the ishingly successful Glyndebourne of sorts, nestled on a hillock outside vibrant atmosphere of Glimmerglass, where our open-air trolleys a quaint village primarily celebrated, until recently, as home of that drive along the lake from Cooperstown for transfers to the theatre. all-American cultural institution, the Baseball Hall of Fame.” Martin Bernheimer, London Financial Times In order of chronology, this summer’s four new productions will be Gioachino Rossini’s ‘bel canto’ rarity, The Thieving Magpie (‘La “Hearing American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton in her San Fran - Gazza Ladra’) ; Giacomo Puccini’s beloved romantic opera, La Bo - cisco recital… Is there anything this artist can’t sing?” heme ; Robert Ward’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Crucible (based Seen & Heard International on Arthur Miller’s gripping drama, celebrating the Centennial of his birth); and Stephen Sondheim’s Tony and Olivier award-winning “Greer Grimsley ’s big, resplendent voice (as Wotan) is the right size ‘musical thriller’, Sweeney Todd , reflecting Francesca Zambello’s and color for this vital role.” Seattle Times commitment to the tradition of great American musicals. While accommodations are impossible to find on your own, we Jay Hunter Morris: “The fiery brilliance in his resplendent upper have secured a four-night stay at Cooperstown’s leading Otesaga range captured both Captain Ahab’s inner strength and demonic pos - Hotel – everyone’s first choice for a visit to Lake Otesaga and session.” review of ‘Moby Dick’, San Diego Glimmerglass . For the past twenty summers, Glimmerglass Festival “Rachele Gilmore sang Gilda’s music (‘’) with has been the primary destination of our Hudson Valley skill, her coloratura supple, her pitches perfect.” Tour and has elicited unanimous approval for the high quality of the productions. Moreover, the natural scenic beauty of the landscape around Cooperstown and Lake uring the past few years, Glimmerglass Festi - Otsego has proven to be an unexpected discovery for val has set an example to other summer festivals many of our regular travelers from all parts of the coun - with unusually creative programs. Last summer’s try. In a relatively short time, Glimmerglass has caught choices ranged from Vivaldi’s ‘Cato in Utica’ to the attention of serious opera lovers throughout the DBernstein’s ‘Candide’, and all four of the sea - country. Some of our friends have returned to Coopers- son’s productions were presented in innovative pro - Jamie Barton town with us year after year, not wanting to miss a single 24 tion donated by connoisseur Stephen C. Clark contains Hudson River School painters (Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand) as well as historic portraits by Gilbert Stuart and Benjamin West. The ex - tensive American folk art gallery includes a variety of paintings, quilts, ship figureheads and other artifacts and John Heaton’s 1733 landscape, a seven-foot-long panel considered to be one of the first every painted in the U.S. The 1995 addition of the American Indian Wing, provided the museum with more than 800 treasures of the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection, now beautifully displayed in the basement of Fenimore House. This summer, the museum’s spe - cial exhibitions include The Art of James McNeill Whistler; Early Works of Ansel Adams; and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Bohemian Paris. You will be free to explore the museum at your own leisure. At 4:30 pm on Friday, we are fortunate that our long weekend co - incides with one of the Festival’s ‘special events’. This will be a solo Recital in the Opera House by the American mezzo-soprano Otesaga Hotel porch Jamie Barton . Winner of the 2015 Richard Tucker Award and the new production in the idyllic setting of the Alice Busch Opera The - 2013 Cardiff Singer of the World, Ms. Barton has ignited the MET atre on the shores of crystal-clear Lake Otsego. stage and the Los Angeles Opera as Adalgisa opposite in ‘Norma’. Her program of art songs this afternoon will Thursday, August 11th, independent arrival by car, or at either the conclude with Bon Appétit, Lee Hoiby’s one-woman opera inspired Syracuse or Albany, N.Y. Airports or Train Stations , where by Julia Child. transportation is readily available to Cooperstown, about an hour and a half away from both cities. You should make reservations for this transfer by calling either Premiere Transportation in Al - American Indian artifacts bany (518) 459-6123, or Adonis-Avanti Limousine Service (315) in the Fenimore Art Museum 866-2011. We urge you to call early to make your transfer arrange - ments. (Or independent travel to Cooperstown. Please see our concluding paragraph regarding private round-trip coach transportation between Manhattan and the Otesaga Hotel. ) Accommodations for four nights with a lavish buffet breakfast included at the deluxe Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown, a fully equip ped resort with outdoor pool, extensive dining facilities, tennis courts and golf course. This famous establishment boasts an idyllic setting on the shore of Lake Otsego, with clear waters to rival the mountain lakes of Switzer - At 7:30 pm on Friday, A second land. The Otesaga is expensive but will add performance in the opera immeasurably to your enjoyment of our tour. house will be Ros sini’s The (Our confirmation is upgraded to ‘Lake View’ Thieving Magpie (‘La Gazza for all of the 12 rooms in our contract.) Ladra’) . First performed at La Raquel Gonzalez Early Thursday evening, August 11th, dinner Scala in 1817, this melodic will be served in the hotel’s main dining room. work has risen to a major posi - This will be an opportunity to meet other tion in the ‘bel canto’ canon of members of the Tour. The Otesaga features Rossini by virtue of Pesaro’s de - the best large dining room in the area. finitive version edited by the Thursday evening at 7:30 pm, our first per - Italian conductor/ musicologist formance will be Puccini’s La Bohème . The Alberto Zedda and published in new production will capture the Belle Epoque 1979. The libretto’s dramaturgy derives from the tradition of era of this lyric tragedy in the Montmartre Baseball Hall of Fame Parisian setting of Henry Murger’s novel ‘rescue opera’, culminating in Michael which was the original source of the libretto. a happy ending after the so - ndenburg Bra Puccini’s soaring arias, duets and ensembles prano heroine Ninetta undergoes a magnificent Trial Scene con - account for the enduring popularity of this poignant operatic victing her to the gallows. She is ‘rescued’ with the revelation that tragedy. Heading the cast will be soprano Raquel González and a magpie has stolen the Mayor’s missing spoon – the evidence for Michael Brandenburg as the consumptive seamstress her arrest – which leads to the King’s last-minute act of clemency. Mimi and the romance poet Rodolfo. The company’s Music Direc - American soprano Rachele Gilmore returns after last summer’s tor Joseph Colaneri will be the conductor, and the staging will dazzling Zerbinetta (‘’) in the starring role of be directed by E. Loren Meeker with sets designed by Kevin Ninetta. The male contingent will include the Italian-American Depinet . Sung in Italian with English surtitles. . Rossini tenor Michele Angelini as Giannetto, South African bass- baritone Musa Ngqungwana as the lascivious Gottardo, and On Friday morning, August 12th, a morning visit is arranged to the American bass-baritone Dale Travis as Fernando Villabella. The Fenimore Art Museum of New York history and American art new production is directed by Peter Kazaris and designed by which houses the extraordinary Eugene and Clare Thaw Col - Myung Hee Cho . Music Director Jos eph Colaneri is again our lection of Indian artifacts from all over the U.S. The fine art collec - conductor. Sung in Italian with English surtitles. 25 Saturday the This afternoon’s performers will include baritone Brian Mulligan 13th and Sun - and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as the protagonists Elizabeth day morning and John Proctor. The American dramatic tenor Jay Hunter Mor - the 14th are left ris (this summer’s distinguished artist-in-residence, and a brilliant free for a vari - Ahab in Los Angeles’ recent ‘Moby Dick’) will assume the role of ety of independ - the merciless Judge Danforth. Bass-baritone David Pittsinger ent activities in will portray the level-headed Reverend Hale. The company’s highly Coopers town. visible Artistic & General Director Francesca Zambello will be The hotel of - the director for this new production . Nicole Paiement will be on fers tennis, golf, the podium, and Neil Patel will be the set designer for the 17th swimming and century backdrop. Sung in English with English surtitles. boat rides on Sunday evening, a post-opera dinner is Otsego Lake. planned at Toscana , a recent addition to Farmer’s Museum Cooperstown is the village of Cooperstown. ‘Toscana’ en - also home of joys a central location on Main Street and the Baseball Hall of Fame (“the ultimate experience for a base - has earned an enviable reputation for its ball fan”), the extensive outdoor Farmer’s Museum of early Northern Italian dishes. American life, within walking distance or trolley service from the hotel. Downtown Cooperstown is also convenient for shopping in Monday, August 15th, independent depar - attractive boutiques and casual dining in a variety of café and gar - tures from the hotel. You should call early den restaurants. The hotel is a short walk from the heart of town to arrange for any limousine service to the Brian Mulligan and historic walking tours through the village commence from the Albany Airport. ( Please note our transfer hotel most mornings. information earlier in this brochure. ). The unobtrusive Willis Monie bookstore on Francesca Zambello, Main Street contains a General and Artistic Director large selection of sec - Alice Busch Opera House, ond-hand volumes of un - usual interest and value. Saturday evening, we will return to the opera Rachele Gilmore Michele Angelini house for the 8:00 pm performance of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd , this year’s American musical following the success of Francesca Zambello’s recent productions of ‘Candide’, ‘Carousel’ and ‘Camelot’. “A story of obsession and revenge, spiced with a measure of black humor, the Tony and Olivier award-winning score is driv - ing, wistful, funny and touching, with such

Musa numbers as ‘Johanna’, ‘The Worst Pies in Lon - Ngqungwana don’, ‘Not While I’m Around’ and ‘Pretty IMPORTANT: We are pleased to offer convenient private coach/van Women’.” (Glimmerglass). The American transportation from our NY office location at Lincoln Center to the Wagnerian baritone Greer Grimsley (a con - Otesaga Hotel on August 11th, and returning on August 15th, for a summate Wotan and Dutchman) will portray cost of $300 round-trip or $150 one-way. The roughly five-hour trip the ‘Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ opposite will depart at 9:30 am on the 11th and return by 4:00 pm on the 15th, his real-life wife Luretta Bybee as Sweeney’s with a short snack/rest stop en route. Full details will be included with accomplice Mrs. Lovett. Soprano Patricia the Final Itinerary one month prior to the Tour. IMPORTANT: You Schuman will be heard in the pivotal role of should indicate NOW if you wish to use these transfers. PLEASE the Beggar Woman, and Judge Turpin will be NOTE THAT OUR VAN or SMALL BUS (depending on the number sung by bass Peter Volpe . The conductor is of requests) MAY NOT BE AS COMFORTABLE AS A DELUXE John DeMain , and the new production is di - COACH. However, we believe we should offer the most economic trans - rected by Christopher Alden with scenic de - Luretta Bybee fers for your convenience, as Cooperstown is not easily accessible from signs by Andrew Holland . Sung in English NY City unless you choose to fly to Albany or Syracuse. with English sur titles. At 1:30 pm on Sunday, August 14th, our final The Glimmerglass Opera: performance will be Robert Ward’s 20th cen - Price per person, based on double occupancy $ 2,885* tury American opera, The Crucible . Pre - miered by the New York City Opera in 1961, Single room supplement $ 780* this opera proved an immediate success with audiences and critics and was awarded the *Our Glimmerglass Tour is more expensive than most of our long week - ends due to the high premium cost of the ‘upgraded Lake View’ rooms prestigious Pulitzer Prize the following year. Greer Grimsley The riveting action closely follows the Salem at the Otesaga Hotel, including their daily buffet breakfast. After our witch trials of Arthur Miller’s eponymous play and provides glow - contract of 12 rooms, ‘upgraded Lake View’ will be subject to availability. ing opportunities for dramatic singers in the large ensemble cast. Airfare NOT included. 26