Glimmerglass Opera General & Artistic Director Michael MacLeod has announced plans for the company's 2008 Festival Season.
Glimmerglass announced last December it will present the first fully staged American production of Wagner's early comedy, Das Liebesverbot (Forbidden Love), inspired by Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. Glimmerglass Opera will also present new productions of Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate and Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi. The productions will run in repertory from July 5 to August 24, 2008, in the Alice Busch Opera Theater in Cooperstown, New York.
The 2008 productions are all new to the Glimmerglass Opera stage and will be presented on one set. The set, designed by the company's Associate Artistic Director, John Conklin, will depict an Elizabethan theater.
"The 2008 operas will demonstrate far more diversity on one set than would have been seen in four plays at the Globe Theatre in Shakespeare's day, and it will be the music, costumes and lighting that will emphasize the variety among the four works,"Â MacLeod said. "The use of a single set will allow the directors to draw even more on the acting ability of our 2008 singers."Â Further details on Glimmerglass Opera's 2008 Festival Season will be announced later this year. For more information on the company's 2007 Orpheus-inspired Festival Season, call (607) 547-2255 or visit www.glimmerglass.org.
Glimmerglass Opera's 2007 Festival Season will unveil four new productions this summer, each based on the timeless myth of Orpheus: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (in a co-production with Opera North, UK, and Norwegian Opera), the Gluck/Berlioz Orphée et Eurydice, Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and Philip Glass' Orphée, as well as two concert performances of Haydn's rarely performed opera based on the Orpheus myth, L'Anima del Filosofo. The season productions will be complemented by screenings of Jean Cocteau's Orphée, which inspired Philip Glass' opera, and Black Orpheus, which sets the Orpheus myth in Rio de Janeiro. Established in 1975 and based in Cooperstown, New York, Glimmerglass Opera offers more than 40 performances of four operas in repertory during its eight-week season. For additional information, call (607) 547-2255 or visit glimmerglass.org.
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