Oklahoma! Madame Butterfly Fellow Travelers Robin Hood
OUR MISSION Produce new, lesser-known, and familiar operas and musical theater in innovative productions Provide professional training and performance opportunities for emerging artists and Apprentices Engage acclaimed artists who inspire the highest standards of achievement Inspire dialogue around meaningful issues of the day through song and story Collaborate with regional organizations, schools, and businesses to enhance life in Central New York
OUR VISION The Glimmerglass Festival is a retreat for artists and audiences; a destination for the soul. Productions and artists need space, time, and freedom to develop. Glimmerglass is a haven of calm and focus, helping generations of artists achieve their full potential and serving as a mirror of society, where everyone can see their story reflected on our stages.
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PHOTOS: KAYLEEN BERTRAND; BRENT DELANOY
Glimmerglass Festival 2026
TABLE OF CONTENTS Our Mission and Vision................................................................................................................................................ 2 Greetings from the Artistic & General Director....................................................................................................... 4 Welcome from the Chair of the Board of Trustees.................................................................................................. 6 Leadership..................................................................................................................................................................... 7 2026 Festival Event Date Listing................................................................................................................................8 Oklahoma!....................................................................................................................................................................10 Madame Butterfly ......................................................................................................................................................16 Così ...............................................................................................................................................................................22 Fellow Travelers .........................................................................................................................................................28 Robin Hood ..................................................................................................................................................................34 Happy End ...................................................................................................................................................................38 Vignettes: Ellis Island ................................................................................................................................................40 Artist-in-Residence.....................................................................................................................................................42 Hupper Family Festival Artists.................................................................................................................................44 Guest Artists................................................................................................................................................................46 Music Staff...................................................................................................................................................................52 Resident Artists...........................................................................................................................................................53 Orchestra......................................................................................................................................................................58 Community Performers.............................................................................................................................................59 Youth Performers........................................................................................................................................................60 Administration and Production Staff.......................................................................................................................62 The Guild of Glimmerglass Festival.........................................................................................................................64 2026 Guild Members...................................................................................................................................................65 Volunteer Ushers........................................................................................................................................................ 67 In Remembrance.........................................................................................................................................................70 Name a Seat.................................................................................................................................................................74 The Goodyear Society.................................................................................................................................................75 Gifts to Glimmerglass.................................................................................................................................................78 Area Resource Guide..................................................................................................................................................96 Advertising................................................................................................................................................................... 97 General Information.................................................................................................................................................114 Credits........................................................................................................................................................................115 Campus Map..............................................................................................................................................................118 2027 Festival Preview..............................................................................................................................................119
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Rob Ainsley (at piano) rehearsing with the cast of the 2026 touring production of Happy End. Photo by Brent DeLanoy.
FROM THE ARTISTIC & GENERAL DIRECTOR Welcome to The Glimmerglass Festival’s 51st season. As this great company — the dream of a small group of high-minded individuals — embarks on its next half-century, we reflect this summer on the 250th anniversary of this great country, and the small group of high-minded individuals on whose principles it is founded. I want you to know that I have asked myself the obvious question: What am I doing expounding on American history and culture with an accent like mine? After all, I usually feel the urge to hide under a rock on July 4, and I try to steer clear of tea parties. Nevertheless, I have now lived the American Dream for over half my life and am grateful every day for the lifechanging opportunities and privileges it has offered me. So I proceed cautiously… This has always been a nation of sharp contrasts, strong opinions, and extraordinary diversity. Those realities were the driving forces behind America’s meteoric rise to world superpower status; the constant need to reconcile and confront those differences has been a source of American innovation and progress in every sphere imaginable. Right now, those differences are a real challenge. But eventually, we will move forward because of them. Art deals well with contrasts — it thrives on them. Seek them out in the pieces you see. Without digging too deeply into the many questions these great works ask about what it means to be American today, I’ll point you in the right direction: Take Oklahoma! — already more American than apple pie. At its core, it is a conflict between cowherds and farmers as a territory struggles toward statehood. It is about that most American of contrasts, the conflict between tradition and progress, in which people inevitably get hurt, and justice is unclear. Madame Butterfly is clearer still — in this power play between the cultures of the East and West, in this messy world of uncomfortable racial and gender stereotypes, it is always clear who will come out on top, but it is hardly cause for celebration. At what cost comes American dominance? What are the human and societal consequences of “gunboat diplomacy”? How should America wield its awesome power around the world? The modern masterpiece, Fellow Travelers, examines another time of great division: the McCarthy era and the “Lavender Scare.” It examines the political, state-sponsored persecution of a minority and the fear and suspicion that surrounds it. Meanwhile, Robin Hood’s Merry Band learns to fight systemic corruption and injustice by leading with love. Our touring production, Happy End — a work by three German artists who eventually immigrated to America — finds humor and common ground between inept mobsters and religious fanatics, and asks remarkably prescient questions about the society we live in today. Vignettes: Ellis Island pits the fear and sacrifice of leaving one’s home country against the elation and joy of the immigrant experience in America. But what of Così? How does it fit into our American exploration? By constantly reminding us that, despite our differences, we are all human and all flawed. By reminding us that when we work together, we make incredibly beautiful things happen. And, in our production, by reminding us that our institutions of higher education are vital places of exploration and experimentation, and that we should look after them and make them accessible to all, just like the theater. This season is only possible through the commitment of our phenomenal Board, the hard work of our incredible staff, and the generosity of you, our supporters. Thank you for believing in us and in the vital importance of theater and music in American life. Happy 250th!
Rob Ainsley, Artistic & General Director Glimmerglass Festival 2026 | 5
FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES My wife, Debby, and I have been coming to Glimmerglass every summer for over 15 years. Not as long as some of you, but a long time for us. Each season has proven special, and the previous season’s magic has inspired us to come back for the next. Last year, the Festival’s 50th anniversary season was as special as any have been — a result of the joy relating to the 50th anniversary, as well as the provocative productions, colorful and lovely sets, and poignant performances. The wonder of that season was capped off by Glimmerglass winning the International Opera Award for Musical Theater for our creative production of Sunday in the Park with George. I was honored to be among the small group that went on behalf of the company to accept the award in Athens, Greece. It was a lovely event — the thrill of receiving the award all the greater considering the stature and accomplishments of the other companies with whom we shared the stage as winners, as well as the high quality of the competition for the award we won. What is special about the 2026 season that you are about to enjoy? Given that it is the 250th anniversary of America, we have tried to capture the variability of the American experience and to represent those many facets through our four mainstage productions. During the 2026 season, you will enjoy Oklahoma! with its iconic songs that reflect classic, ostensibly wholesome American values. Yet there is a slightly dark undertone to this beautiful piece, showing the complexity of the American rural experience. In contrast, you will also enjoy Fellow Travelers about a sadder era in American history in which discrimination was officially sanctioned and perpetrated. Yet the opera focuses on an inspiring love story that reflects hope even under the most difficult of circumstances. And you will enjoy Mozart and Puccini operas, performed exquisitely by The Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra and both sung by widely acclaimed and rising musical artists. I end by thanking you for attending and by thanking, as always, the artists and staff of Glimmerglass who are responsible for putting on the season and making sure it all works as well as it does. I also thank our former leader, Francesca Zambello, for returning to direct Oklahoma! and guide the revival of her 2014 Madame Butterfly — and for her inspired leadership at Washington National Opera in its fight to survive as an independent and outstanding company. I thank our current leader, Rob Ainsley, for the wonderful job he has done in selecting titles and casting both artists and creative teams, as well as for his infectious enthusiasm and overall leadership of the company. I also thank the members of the Guild of Glimmerglass for their continued support — financially, logistically, and spiritually. The omnipresence of Guild members during the summer — as volunteers and audience members — keeps us all smiling and encouraged. Finally, to my fellow Trustees, as the performing arts landscape continues to evolve, Glimmerglass is fortunate to be guided by a Board whose expertise, insight, resources, and commitment are second to none. Together, we are well-positioned to meet the moment, embrace new opportunities, and strengthen the Festival for the future. Enjoy the 2026 season! And, I look forward to seeing you in 2027!
Michael Young, Chair of the Board of Trustees
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LEADERSHIP HONORARY CHAIR Peter Duchin
OFFICERS
Michael Young, Chair Mark Luis Villamar, Vice-Chair Patricia Chadwick, Treasurer Thomas Simpson, Secretary
TRUSTEES
Georg Budenbender Allan Dinkoff Sherwin M. Goldman Allison Hill-Edgar Tim Lord Thomas C. Ragan Jerry Raymond John Ryland Michael Sekus Ted Snowdon Jean Stark Debra Valentine Anne Wade Rebecca Fay Walsh
EX-OFFICIO LIAISONS Sage Mehta1 Eric Owens2 Laura Tansey Wetzel3
HONORARY LIFE TRUSTEES
John^ and Wendy Curtis El izabeth M. and Jean-Marie R. Eveillard Andrea K. Fallek^ Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman Faith E. Gay and Francesca Zambello Nellie Gipson Beth and Gary Glynn Sherwin M. Goldman Mrs. John H.J. Guth^ Alfred F. Hubay^
Mrs. John R. Hupper^ Dudley D. and Carole H. Johnson Patricia Kavanagh and James Grant Ro bert Nelson and Van Broughton Ramsey Robert B. Schlather^ Senator James L. Seward^ Jean Stark La dy Juliet and Dr. Christopher Tadgell Eugene V.^ and Clare E. Thaw^
ARTISTIC & GENERAL DIRECTOR Rob Ainsley
MUSIC DIRECTOR Joseph Colaneri
ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES Eric Sean Fogel Kelley Rourke
ARTISTIC ADVISORY BOARD Eric Owens, Chair William Burden Alyson Cambridge Anthony Roth Costanzo Rod Gilfry Christine Goerke Anthony Dean Griffey Peter Kazaras Mark Lamos Isabel Leonard Ryan McKinny Erie Mills Patricia Racette Neil Shicoff
EMERITUS
Paul Kellogg^ Artistic Director Emeritus Stewart Robertson^ Music Director Emeritus John Conklin^ Associate Artistic Director Emeritus Hugh Hardy^ Architectural Advisor Emeritus Francesca Zambello Artistic & General Director Emerita
FOUNDING TRUSTEES
Beekman C. Cannon^ Ferdinand Ermlich^ Thomas Goodyear^ Louis Busch Hager^ Mrs. Louis C. Jones^ Dr. Peter Macris^ Mary-Jo Merk Mrs. James M. Symington^
FOUNDING LEADERSHIP Peter Macris^ Founding Artistic Director Charles Schneider^ Founding Music Director 1 Young Glimmerglass Representative 2 Chair, Artistic Advisory Board 3 Guild President ^ deceased
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2026 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE JULY GETAWAY WEEKEND
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Free Event: Preview Talk Madame Butterfly The Road Home: Schubert’s Winterreise Free Event: Preview Talk Fellow Travelers Robin Hood Vignettes: Ellis Island Free Event: Preview Talk Oklahoma! Robin Hood 2026 Festival Dinner Free Event: Preview Talk Fellow Travelers Free Event: Backstage Tour Free Event: Preview Talk Oklahoma! Free Event: Changeover Talk Free Event: Preview Talk Madame Butterfly 2027 Preview Brunch Free Event: Preview Talk Così Free Event: Preview Talk Fellow Travelers Free Event: Preview Talk Così Vignettes: Ellis Island Free Event: Preview Talk Oklahoma! 2026 Festival Dinner Free Event: Preview Talk Così Free Event: Glimmerglass After Hours Free Event: Backstage Tour Free Event: Preview Talk Madame Butterfly Summer Sendoff Picnic Free Event: Changeover Talk Free Event: Preview Talk Oklahoma! Free Event: Preview Talk Fellow Travelers Free Event: Preview Talk Madame Butterfly
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RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S
Oklahoma! Music by Richard Rodgers Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Ba sed on the play “Green Grow the Lilacs” by Lynn Riggs Original Dances by Agnes de Mille 10 | Oklahoma!
New co-production with Houston Grand Opera and Washington National Opera Sung in English with English projected titles Running time: Two hours and 45 minutes, including one 25-minute intermission
JULY 10–AUGUST 15, 2026
Ten performances: July 10, 12m, 18, 21m, 27m; August 2m, 6, 8m, 13, 15
Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), circa 1907. Laurey and Curly attempt to hide their mutual attraction with a series of insults. To spite Curly, Laurey impulsively agrees to go to the dance with Jud, the hired hand. Later, she regrets her decision and admits to Aunt Eller that Jud frightens her. Meanwhile, Andrew Carnes is eager to see his fun-loving daughter, Ado Annie, properly married, and sets a price of fifty dollars for her hand. The earnestly ardent Will Parker can’t seem to hold on to any money that comes his way; meanwhile, Ali Hakim has the cash, but not the desire, to marry and settle down. At the dance, baskets assembled by the young women of the territory are auctioned for charity. The men compete fiercely for the contributions of their sweethearts. After Jud is defeated in his bid for Laurey’s basket, he reveals the depth of his obsession. When Laurey seeks comfort from Curly, the two finally confess their love. After Laurey and Curly’s wedding, Jud starts a fight and is killed when he falls on his own knife. In a makeshift trial, Curly pleads self-defense and is pronounced not guilty. Ado Annie and Will Parker appear, having settled an earlier misunderstanding, and Laurey and Curly exit in a surrey with a fringe on top.
This production is generously sponsored by Elizabeth M. and Jean-Marie R. Eveillard Jacqueline B. Mars OKLAHOMA! is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. www.concordtheatricals.com
Cast
Laurey Shereen Pimentel** Curly Michael Adams Jud Fry Erik Nordstrom* Aunt Eller Holly Twyford** Ado Annie Carnes Kate Morton* Will Parker Peter Murphy* Ali Hakim Gregory Sliskovich* Andrew Carnes Troy Cook Dream Laurey/Rosie Madison Manning* Dream Curly/Farmer Chalmers Jordan Spena* Aggie Megan Bush* Armina Grace Heldridge* Cord Elam Jose Olivares* Ellen Samantha Sosa* Fred Jude Emperado* Gertie Erin Alford* Ike Skidmore Nicholas Huff* Jess Thandolwethu Mamba* Joe Sam Krausz* Kate Lauren Torey* Lil’Tich E.A. Hobbs* Mike Carlos Ahrens* Sam Ethan Clark Davis* Slim William Raskin* Susie Jaelynn Ricks* Sylvie Kaileigh Riess* Tom Ben Wallace* Virginia Viviana Aurelia Goodwin* Farm Children Hayden Lemmon Jacob Wisniewski
Production
Conductor James Lowe Director Francesca Zambello Associate Director & Choreographer Eric Sean Fogel Set Designer Peter J. Davison Costume Designer Constance Hoffman Lighting Designer Ken Billington Sound Designer Joel T. Morain Hair & Makeup Designer Tom Watson Projected Titles Kelley Rourke Chorus Director Fight & Intimacy Director Assistant Director Assistant Conductor Assistant Choreographer Principal Coach Diction Coach Assistant Coach Stage Manager
Katherine Kozak Sierra Young Dylan Cole* Brian McCann* Dylan Cole* Grant Wenaus Lynn Baker Tongyao Li* Brian August
The Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra *Member of Resident Artists Program **Actor appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Glimmerglass Festival 2026 | 11
TERRITORY FOLKS By Kelley Rourke
Peter J. Davison’s design for the Oklahoma! show drop.
“Drama to me, in full, is simply the effect of person upon person,” wrote playwright Lynn Riggs in 1929. “Put two people in a room and there’s drama. No one could be more surprised than I at some of their incalculable actions. In the play I’m just finishing, Green Grow the Lilacs, there are a dozen examples. The play is concerned with a more golden day in Oklahoma, golden in the sense that the people I’m writing about were magnificently adapted to their environment…”
Green Grow the Lilacs — the play that was to become Oklahoma! — is not only a study of the effect of person on person, but also an exploration of the relationship between persons and their environment, in this case, what was known as “Indian Territory” in 1900. It was an environment Riggs knew well, having been born in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, near Claremore, in 1899. “Indian Territory” was named not for its original inhabitants, but for the Southeastern tribes that were forcibly relocated there by the U.S. government in the
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wake of the 1830 Indian Removal Act. The Act, which had been approved by a narrow margin (9 votes in the Senate, 6 in the House), resulted in the removal of more than 60,000 people, representing at least 18 tribes, to land west of the Mississippi River. Due to the extreme hardships of the journey, which came to be known as the “Trail of Tears,” many died before reaching their destination. By the time Riggs was born, the territory once held communally by these displaced Native nations had been divided into allotments and opened to new settlers, drawing people of all races and backgrounds with a promise of opportunity and liberty. Claremore had a population of 855 and was served by two railroads (Riggs’ grandfather was a railway worker) and a post office — in the musical, it’s where Curly hires his “Surrey with the Fringe on Top.” Like the larger Territory within which it was situated, Claremore boasted a diverse population at the turn of the century; Riggs himself was of Cherokee descent.
Map of Indian Territory, 1879, Department of the Interior. Claremore is near the southwest corner of Cherokee Nation.
With Green Grow the Lilacs, Riggs drew on his own memories, from his white-framed farmhouse to the tradition of the wedding-night “shivaree” to the foreignborn peddler, who also appeared in Riggs’ first play called Knives from Syria. (At the time of the 1900 census, 100 residents of Indian Territory were identified as Syrian, but this seems to have been a catch-all term for all people of Middle Eastern background.) As Riggs explained, the first three acts of Green Grow the Lilacs serve to introduce the characters; the next three constitute “the play.” With their musical interpretation of the play, Rodgers & Hammerstein placed a love triangle at the center of the drama, with cowboy Curly and farmhand Jud (Jeeter in the play) competing for the affection of Laurey. A secondary, comic love triangle involves Ado Annie, Will Parker (who does not appear in the play), and the peddler Ali Hakim (who is unnamed in the play). While romance looms large in the musical, it is not the only source of tension between Riggs’ characters. As the playwright pointed out, “Curly represents one relation to the soil, Jeeter another.” Rodgers & Hammerstein’s argument that “the farmer and the cowman should be friends” serves to underscore their enmity. A cowboy like Curly and a farmer like Jeeter/Jud exist as discrete points on a many-shaded spectrum, from the absolute
individualism of the open range to fenced “civilization” in which difficult situations are subject to settled law. In this landscape, a peddler like Ali Hakim is a challenge to the way both understand themselves, and a figure of fascination for individuals all along the spectrum. With his itinerant existence, the peddler represents absolute freedom. At the same time, by offering goods that the settlers are not able to provide for themselves, he gives lie to their claim of absolute self-sufficiency. The drama that crackles between the characters in Oklahoma! evolves with the life experience of those who encounter it. Director Francesca Zambello, whose mother was an actress, remembers, “When I was five years old, my mother was doing summer stock on Cape Cod, where they used to perform a musical every week. I spent the evenings watching from the wings or waiting in her dressing room. Of course, that would be totally illegal now, but I got my fill of the golden age of musicals. Oklahoma! made an impression on me, and I knew all the songs by heart by the end of the summer. Little did I realize that the actual story deals with a complicated moment in history. Now, as I put it on the stage, I am transported back to that joyous time, and I’ve been working toward a production that offers the exhilaration of my first experience alongside a more serious consideration of this story.” Glimmerglass Festival 2026 | 13
Oklahoma! is usually hailed for its groundbreaking integration of script, song, and dance. In The Middle-Brow Musical: Between Broadway and Opera in 1940s America (2025), James O’Leary argues that Rodgers & Hammerstein were also aiming at another form of hybridity, one that blended the immediacy of commercial theater with what might be called the spiritual values of folk art. This orientation can be seen in the artists’ rejection of urban settings favored by their peers, choosing landscapes they imagined as unspoiled bastions of more stable values. Thus, for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration, the American West served the same purpose as later settings for “folk” stories, which included a Maine mill town (Carousel), Siam (The King and I), and an island in the South Pacific. Their choices were not unlike those of Giacomo Puccini, who also looked both West to the American frontier and East to Asia to express truths about the universal human condition. Riggs wrote from what he knew, giving Hammerstein a solid base from which to create his book and lyrics. But unlike Puccini, who sought out musical references for his “exotic” locales, Rodgers was not terribly interested in authenticity. “Oscar sent me an impressively thick book of songs of the American Southwest,” remembered Rodgers. “I opened the book, played the music of one song, closed the book and never looked at it again. If my melodies were going to be authentic, they’d have to be authentic in my own terms.” For his part, Hammerstein remarked,
“This is a Western landscape, and no question about it. Yet the style of these designs and the manner of painting are essentially modern. It is Indian Territory at the turn of the century expressed in the stage-design idiom of 1943.” In their most significant departure from the play, Rodgers & Hammerstein moved the action forward six years, so the events take place on the eve of statehood; World War II was raging, and nothing short of a patriotic celebration of Oklahoma’s statehood would do. In contrast, the unifying factor for Riggs’ territory folks is not one of race, ethnicity, or occupation; it is the uncomfortable specter of someday being subject to a distant government. When Curly’s fight with Jeeter turns deadly, Aunt Eller reprimands those who call for Curly’s trial: “Why, the way you’re sidin’ with the federal marshal, you’d think us people out here lived in the United States! … Whut’s the United States? It’s jist a furrin country to me.” The neighbors respond indignantly: “Why, I’m jist plumb full of Indian blood myself!” “Me, too! And I c’n prove it!” In their adaptation, Rodgers & Hammerstein attempt to have it both ways; they celebrate both statehood and a people’s ability to come to a commonsense conclusion of right and wrong, without the intervention of a court. The 2019 Broadway production raised questions about the makeshift “trial” that ends the musical, making it seem less an act of logic and kindness than a gang of bullies protecting one of their own. (This striking interpretation was accomplished without altering a word of the book or lyrics, a testament to the power of non-verbal choices in the theater.) Questions about our obligations to each other — and the government’s role in upholding these obligations — feel more urgent than ever, as do questions about our relationship to the land. Oklahoma! is set in a vanished time, one in which a “bright golden haze” hangs over a bloody history. “Put two people in a room and there’s drama,” said Riggs. The drama he set in motion with the play that was to become Oklahoma! continues to crackle with tension and unresolved questions.
Boomers Entering Oklahoma Territory. Drawing by Albert Richter, 1905. Copyright by John D. Morris Company. Library of Congress 94506348.
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CELEBRATING NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS The Thaw Collection of American Indian Art at Fenimore Art Museum
In 1995, Cooperstown’s Fenimore Art Museum embarked upon a new era with the addition of a spectacular new wing designed to house the extraordinary gift of American Indian art from Eugene and Clare Thaw. The collection has continued to grow and today numbers almost 850 objects, including work from two tribes associated with the land in which the story of Oklahoma! unfolds: the Wahzhazhe or Osage, whose traditional homelands include what is now Claremore, OK, and the Cherokee, who were forcibly relocated to the area by the U.S. government in the 1830s. This beautiful woman’s blanket is an example of Wahzhazhe (Osage) artistry. Since the early 1800s, Wahzhazhe women have been embellishing wool blankets with elaborate mosaic patterns using silk ribbons, transforming ordinary objects into extraordinary robes. They are part of women’s and girls’ regalia representing their tribal identity at special occasions like the annual Ilonshka dances held every June on the Osage Reservation in northeast Oklahoma. The ribbonwork ranges from relatively simple bands of richly patterned reverse appliqué (a technique of sewing a cut-out ribbon pattern onto a differently colored ribbon background) to figurative designs, like the six hands seen here. This type of blanket was worn around a woman’s shoulders and over her forearms, so the ribbon-work formed a cascade of color in front of her.
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Madame Butterfly Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa Based on the play by David Belasco and the short story by John Luther Long
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Revival production, sung in Italian with English projected titles Running time: Two hours and 40 minutes, including one 25-minute intermission
JULY 11–AUGUST 17, 2026
Nine performances: July 11, 13m, 19m, 28m, 31; Aug 3m, 8, 15m, 17m
Nagasaki, 1904. Goro, a marriage broker, briefs the American Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton on what he can expect while in Japan. Pinkerton explains to Sharpless, the American consul, that he intends to marry a young Japanese girl. After Pinkerton is introduced to Cio- CioSan, or “Butterfly,” they are married according to Japanese custom. The Bonze, Butterfly’s uncle, learns that his niece has adopted her new husband’s religion and denounces her. Pinkerton consoles his bride. A few years later, Pinkerton has returned to the United States; Butterfly and her maid, Suzuki, wait in Japan for him. Goro insists that Pinkerton has deserted Butterfly and attempts to interest her in a new husband, but she refuses. When Sharpless, too, tries to convince her to move on, Butterfly reveals her son by Pinkerton. A cannon sounds and Pinkerton’s ship is seen in the harbor. Butterfly and Suzuki prepare to greet him. After a long vigil, Butterfly puts her child to bed. Sharpless appears with Pinkerton and Kate, Pinkerton’s American wife; they ask Suzuki to break the news of their marriage to Butterfly. Pinkerton leaves, distraught. When Butterfly receives the news, she agrees to send the child back to America with his father, but only if Pinkerton comes for him. Dismissing everyone, she contemplates a family heirloom — the dagger her father used to kill himself.
Cast
Cio-Cio-San Eri Nakamura Lt. Pinkerton Eric Taylor Suzuki Michelle Mariposa Sharpless Troy Cook Goro Randy Ho* Prince Yamadori Joseph Park* The Bonze Woosik Nam* The Imperial Commissioner Yichen Xue* Kate Pinkerton Erin Alford* The Official Registrar Alexander Smith* Sorrow Prior Parker Supernumeraries Ethan Chen, Wade Chen, Ying Chen, Etienne Lavallee, Eva Lavallee, Yuan Lin, Mary Grace C. Penachos-Carentz, Ying Wu, Pippa Werking-Yip, Peter Yip
Production
Conductor Joseph Colaneri Revival Director Joshua R. Horowitz Original Production Director Francesca Zambello Set Designer Michael Yeargan Costume Designer Anita Yavich Lighting Designer Robert Wierzel Hair & Makeup Designer Tom Watson Projected Titles Kelley Rourke Chorus Director Fight & Intimacy Director Assistant Director Assistant Conductor Principal Coach Assistant Coach Stage Manager
Katherine Kozak Sierra Young Edward Sturm* Luke Poeppel* Anna Betka Maeve Berry* Kathleen Stakenas
The Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra and Chorus
*Member of Resident Artists Program
This production is generously sponsored by Nellie and Robert Gipson. Original 2014 production made possible by a generous grant from the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust. Glimmerglass Festival 2026 | 17
Universal Human Truths via Orientalist Fantasy PHOTO: KARLI CADEL
By Shintaro Kobayashi
Puccini’s Madame Butterfly is one of the most frequently performed operas in North America. According to OPERA America’s The Top 25: 2018–2019, a pre-Covid survey of the operas most often produced by professional companies across the continent, Madame Butterfly ranked fifth, following La bohème, La traviata, Carmen, and The Barber of Seville. Even those who have never attended an opera often recognize “Un bel dì vedremo,” one of the most beloved arias in the operatic canon, or at least have some sense of the story. It is well known that Miss Saigon, one of the most popular musicals of all time, was inspired by Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. It is remarkable that, more than a century after its premiere, the tale of a young Japanese woman whose unwavering faith in a marriage
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her American partner never regarded as real — and which ends in her tragic self-destruction — continues to attract audiences even today. Puccini’s emotionally direct and richly orchestrated score remains undeniably compelling. The title role is arguably a cornerstone challenge for any lyric soprano, and it is both theatrically and musically one of the most rewarding roles in the repertoire. Few would dispute that its dramatic pacing, the tragic arc of Cio-Cio-San, its melodic accessibility, and its powerful theatricality make it one of the most gripping works in the operatic repertoire. Yet despite its popularity — or perhaps precisely because of it — Madame Butterfly can also be one of the most challenging operas to admire without reservation.
Its enduring appeal points to the persistence of deeper cultural narratives. As David Henry Hwang’s Tony Award–winning play M. Butterfly (1988) famously revealed, the “exotic East,” the “mysterious Orient,” and the fantasy of the submissive Asian woman remain remarkably durable constructions that circulate far beyond the opera house. Their influence is not merely historical: a 2026 Economist article on Western “passport bros” — men who travel to countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines in search of women they describe as more “traditional” — shows how these Orientalist gender fantasies continue to shape global imaginations today. In another of Puccini’s operas, Turandot, similarly set in the “Orient,” the character of Liù takes her own life in order to save Calaf. In the Western cultural imagination, this kind of self‑sacrifice for the sake of a beloved figure may be seen as emotionally legible, even familiar. But Cio-Cio-San — who is the daughter of a samurai who died by ritual suicide, or harakiri, and who ends her own life with a knife inscribed with the words “He dies with honor who cannot live with honor” — evokes a cultural framework markedly different from that of the West. This difference may further contribute to her construction as an exotic figure. Over nearly 40 years of watching Madame Butterfly, I have seen countless productions. Among them was a production that eliminated almost all of the “Japanese” elements from the costumes and scenic design while evoking pre-and post-atomic-bomb Nagasaki, as well as one that portrayed the Japan Cio-Cio-San has renounced as a crude, almost “caveman-like” society — an approach so simplistic that one can hardly imagine a director attempting anything even remotely comparable in Porgy and Bess. Most productions, whether successful or not, however, at least seemed intended to present an “authentic” vision of Japan.
What, then, counts as “authentic”? I believe that artists should be free to exercise artistic license, and in that sense, strict Japanese authenticity is not necessarily essential for a successful staging of Madame Butterfly. Does a kimono need to be worn in a way that appears authentically beautiful to Japanese eyes? Couldn’t the colors be flamboyant, the silhouettes lean Vietnamese, and garments from different historical periods coexist onstage? Couldn’t all of this be theatrically effective? Perhaps. What is striking, however, is that the costumes for Pinkerton, Sharpless, and Kate almost never stray far — at least not significantly — from the conventional colors and approximate period accuracy of their era. One would never expect a Tudor lady-in-waiting to appear dressed like a queen; yet few critics remark on the oddity of Goro wearing aristocratic attire from a different era, unless it is clearly a deliberate directorial choice, which it often is not. This imbalance is telling. In a sense, such asymmetry may be “correct” as an interpretation of the work. After all, one could argue that the only world rendered as fully “real” in Madame Butterfly is the Western one. Japan — or, more broadly, the East — is presented as an exoticized landscape filtered through Western eyes. But one could also argue that it is precisely these Western fantasies of Japan — along with Orientalist stereotypes, gendered violence, tragic exoticism, and the legacy of colonial-era representation — that have opened the door to a wide range of reinterpretations. Francesca Zambello’s 1998 production is one prominent example of a reimagining of Butterfly. Because she set the wedding scene inside the American consulate, the chorus, which inevitably contains a diverse mix of artists, represents a mixed group of visitors and deftly avoids the inherent danger of slipping into representations of the “East” that might be viewed as stereotypical.
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In the post-Covid era, when anti-Asian hate came sharply into focus, Matthew Ozawa’s 2023 production — premiered at Cincinnati Opera — made explicit the idea of Madame Butterfly as a white male fantasy, framing the story as a virtual-reality game and ultimately having Cio-Cio-San destroy that illusion rather than herself. Another example is Boston Lyric Opera’s 2023 production by Phil Chan and his creative team, which significantly reworked the libretto to tell a story about Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II.
Yet for all these reinterpretations, the opera’s emotional force reaches far beyond questions of cultural representation. Madame Butterfly likely endures not only because it reflects Western fantasies of the East, but because it speaks to universal human experiences — love (including the unequivocal love for a child), betrayal, longing, and the devastating cost of misplaced faith. Its impact need not be confined to Asia or to the history of Orientalism; rather, one can hope that it resonates across cultures as a profoundly human tragedy, one that continues to move audiences around the world.
PHOTO: JESSICA KRAY
Shintaro Kobayashi has contributed writings on classical music to leading Japanese publications for three decades. A native of Japan, he is currently based in New York.
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PHOTO: KARLI CADEL
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RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S
Oklahoma! Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Original Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte English adaptation by Kelley Rourke
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New production, sung in English with English projected titles Running time: Three hours, including one 25-minute intermission
JULY 17–AUGUST 14, 2026
Seven performances: July 17, 20m, 30; August 1m, 9m, 11m, 14
Ferrando and Guglielmo, football players at Sunbury College, each believe they’ve found “the one” in Dorabella and Fiordiligi, respectively. Alfonso, the dorm’s cynical janitor, argues that love is a lot of nonsense. Sure of their girlfriends’ devotion, the men agree to a bet orchestrated by Alfonso. They take their leave on false pretenses, then return, disguised for the evening’s Halloween party, and attempt to seduce each other’s mates, egged on by both Alfonso and Despina, the Resident Advisor. When the women resist their advances, the men believe they have won the bet, but Alfonso is not yet satisfied. For the next experiment, Alfonso has the disguised men pretend that lovesickness has driven them to suicidal behavior. Despina makes a charade of providing medical support, and the men use the escalating chaos to press their case with Dorabella and Fiordiligi. Later that evening, Despina convinces Dorabella and Fiordiligi that a little innocent flirtation will do no harm. When the men return, Guglielmo successfully woos Dorabella, but Fiordiligi stands firm against Ferrando’s attempted seduction. After learning of Dorabella’s indiscretion, Fiordiligi decides to leave campus and visit Guglielmo, but before she can, Ferrando appears, unwilling to take no for an answer. The party morphs into a bawdy campus ritual. Just as the mismatched pairs find themselves in a compromising situation, the players’ return to campus is announced. It is anyone’s guess what the four young lovers will do with the information they have learned about each other — and themselves.
Cast Fiordiligi Amanda Batista Dorabella Michelle Mariposa Ferrando Travon D. Walker Guglielmo Gregory Feldmann~ Alfonso Kevin Burdette Despina Keely Futterer~
Production Conductor Joseph Colaneri Director Eric Einhorn Choreographer Madison Manning* Set Designer James Rotondo Costume Designer Beth Goldenberg Lighting Designer Kate Ashton Associate Lighting Designer Bridget S. Williams Hair & Makeup Designer Tom Watson Projected Titles Kelley Rourke Chorus Director Katherine Kozak Assistant Director Sable Strout* Assistant Conductor Brian McCann* Principal Coaches Kimberley-Ann Bartczak J. Bradley Baker Diction Coach Lynn Baker Assistant Coach Tongyao Li* Stage Manager Tess Naval The Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra and Chorus
*Member of Resident Artists Program ~Hupper Family Festival Artist
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And Just Like That Mozart and Da Ponte’s school for romantics, cynics, and everyone in between By Kelley Rourke
“Così fan tutte le belle!” (“Thus do all beautiful women!”) So says Basilio in Le nozze di Figaro (1786) as he catches the lady of the house in what appears to be a compromising position. The first of three operas written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, Figaro takes place over the course of one crazy day in which the men’s cluelessness, jealousy, and infidelity drive the women to band together to teach them a lesson. The following year, Da Ponte and Mozart premiered Don Giovanni (1787), the story of a man whose appetites outpace his morals. To frame their final collaboration, they returned to Basilio’s motto from the earlier opera: Così fan tutte (1790). In this story, two young couples’ profession of undying love is subject to a cold experiment, set in motion by a cynical philosopher and aided by a feisty chambermaid, and accompanied by a score that many judge to be among the finest Mozart ever produced. “While all Mozart’s operas are desert island discs for me, Così is probably my favorite, and yet it is often the most elusive of his ‘Big Four’ for today’s audiences,” says Artistic & General Director Rob Ainsley. “The purest musical ‘Classicism’ finds its ineffable beauty in simplicity, balance, and refinement. In visual art, most people respond more immediately to the heroism of Michelangelo’s ‘David’ and his Sistine Chapel, and find the great works of Raphael or even an in-person encounter with Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ to be initially underwhelming in comparison. Yet spend enough time with them, and they yield unutterable rewards. The Sturm und Drang of Don Giovanni and the works of Beethoven possess this Michelangelo-esque heroic quality, but the more Classical Così functions at an entirely human scale. The simplicity of its musical means, the perfection of its orchestration, the total
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grasp of form, the unique understanding of the capacities and qualities of the human voice, and the balance and endless invention of the ensembles exemplify the Renaissance ideal that ‘man is the measure of all things.’ As a true synthesis of text, drama, and music, Così has never been surpassed, and it transforms Da Ponte’s cynical morality play into a complete exploration of what it means to be fully human.”
Campus drop design by James Rotondo.
Even as they created characters who rail against women, Mozart and Da Ponte set them in worlds in which questionable choices come at least as naturally to men. Figaro’s unflattering portrayal of the aristocracy features a Count who believes his position entitles him to sleep with any woman he wants, leaving his neglected wife to wonder what happened to the love they once shared. Don Giovanni might as well have been titled “Thus the Don Does Them All.” The title character’s nihilism is juxtaposed with the range of passions he evokes in the opera’s women.
Così had only a handful of performances in Vienna during Mozart’s lifetime; in those early years, it was critiqued as frivolous, while later generations found it downright immoral. It played in various adaptations that attempted to doctor the scenario, including Mädchenrache (A Girl’s Revenge), Die Zauberprobe (The Magic Test), Mädchen sind Mädchen (Girls Will Be Girls), Die verfängliche Wette (The Tricky Bet), and So machen es alle (That’s how everyone does it), among others.
Mozart settled in Vienna in 1781, after an unfriendly break with his previous employer. That same year, Da Ponte, who had recently been exiled from his native Venice, was appointed poet to Vienna’s court theater. Although Mozart’s rapidly growing oeuvre already included more than ten works for the stage, only one of those (Idomeneo) makes regular appearances today. Da Ponte, for his part, was still a novice librettist. But together, this brilliant and bawdy pair took an enormous leap forward, creating three operas lauded not only for their witty words and sublime music but also for their acute analysis of human behavior.
Musicologist Joseph Kerman neatly summed up the arguments for and against Così: “Mozart’s music clarifies and damns Da Ponte’s cynicism, and so spoils his immaculate play… Alfonso wanted to show that feelings change; Da Ponte wanted to expose them as meaningless; Mozart wanted to define their quality, whether they last or not. So in the end it is a wry joke on Da Ponte: fickleness seems irrelevant and relatively unreal; Mozart’s point is that emotions touch anyhow, even if they soon alter.” In 1922, Così fan tutte finally had its American premiere, decades after the debuts of the other two Mozart/Da Ponte operas. At the Metropolitan Opera, a smaller stage-upon-the-stage was erected to give
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Sunbury College banner by James Rotondo.
a feeling of intimacy to an opera “that under ordinary conditions it would be swamped or submerged in the great spaces of the Metropolitan stage” (New York Times). Così was given just 12 performances in the 1920s before disappearing again. But in 1951, Alfred Lunt’s new production, given in English, allowed audiences to appreciate the sparkling comedy along with the brilliant score. “I remember the first time I heard Mozart recitative in English,” says Ainsley. “It was revelatory — it almost felt like the singers weren’t singing at all, and yet every word made it to the back of the hall without effort, with Mozart’s naturally perfect pacing and intent preserved. After spending so long working on my Italian and trying so hard to make the beautiful stream of sounds seem idiomatic to my teachers, suddenly I understood what they were trying to achieve — but for whose benefit? It would have been a particularly odd choice to update Così to a modern American college setting in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary and to then have it sung in Italian. Opera being sung in anything other than the native language of its intended audience is in itself an anachronism — Mozart would have been shocked at the idea.” Eric Einhorn and I first started thinking together about Così in 2019, when Francesca Zambello asked us to create a fresh, abridged version for the Glimmerglass Pavilion. We considered how to answer the various
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critiques that had been leveled against the opera’s story. At one point we even discussed swapping the men’s and women’s roles, but quickly decided against that idea — who wants to hear a tenor sing “Come scoglio”? Eventually, we hit on an American college as an apt container for Mozart and Da Ponte’s “school for lovers.” Early adulthood is a time of intense drama and exploration, as young men and women leave childhood behind and begin to engage with the world on their own terms. It’s a sheltered environment in which the occasional bad choice is an expected part of growth. The collegiate setting also supplied the public/private spaces that are key to the story; the original philosophical debate, which begins in a coffee house, transfers easily to a campus setting. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that production never made it to the Pavilion. Last year, Rob invited us to revisit the concept, this time for a full performance in the opera house. “By moving this production from the Pavilion to opera house, Kelley and I were able to delve even deeper into the pre-social media college world of the mid-1990s,” says Einhorn. “We chose this period so that the characters could make their choices without the added threat of online permanence, yet keep us out of the more ‘visually stereotype-able’ 1970s and 80s. College is a place where the stakes are higher because we, as newly independent young adults, are trying to decipher and assert who we
PHOTO: BRENT DELANOY
want to be now that we’re away from home. All of this provides a strong structure onto which we can hang the intense emotion and pathos of the score. While Figaro takes places over ‘one crazy day,’ our Così takes place over an even crazier one! Così is typically an opera about its six characters, with the chorus making very brief, ancillary appearances. Kelley and I wanted to widen the world we created by including the chorus (the greater student body) into much more of the story. The dubious choices we make in college are one thing when done privately, but what happens to your decision-making ability when your entire community could be watching?” In Così, the philosopher Alfonso, like Basilio before him, is dubious about women’s virtue. However, it is the men who launch the series of betrayals that set the plot in motion. So why frame the evening as a critique of women’s behavior? We briefly considered swapping the feminine “tutte” for the masculine “tutti,” but in the end decided to take gender out of the frame altogether. Before the evening is out, both sexes reveal their basest instincts and their highest natures: Così — or, “just like that.” Like Figaro, Così was written for Vienna’s Burgtheater, an intimate space well-suited to a story that eschews larger-than-life “operatic” events — no spectacular bloodbaths here — for something far more devastating. Da Ponte’s “school for lovers” is an advanced chemistry lesson that comes off better as a roundtable seminar than a large-hall lecture, making it ideally suited for the intimate Alice Busch Opera Theater. As our instruction concludes, we, like the four young lovers, are sadder but wiser. How well can people ever know each other, we wonder? Not as well, perhaps, as Mozart and Da Ponte knew us.
Costume rendering by Beth Goldenberg.
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Fellow Travelers Music by Gregory Spears Libretto by Greg Pierce
Based on the 2007 novel “Fellow Travelers” by Thomas Mallon
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National Tour Produced by Up Until Now Produced in collaboration with The Glimmerglass Festival Sung in English with English projected titles Running time: Two hours and 15 minutes, including one 25-minute intermission
JULY 18–AUGUST 16, 2026
Six performances: July 18m; August 1, 4m, 7, 10m, 16m
Washington, D.C., 1953. Hawkins Fuller (“Hawk”), a State Department official, takes an interest in Timothy Laughlin, newly arrived in D.C., and helps him land a job on Capitol Hill. Soon, the two begin a secret romantic relationship. Meanwhile, as the national anti-communist crusade intensifies, gay men and lesbians are identified as a security threat. Mary, who works in Hawk’s office, intuits the nature of Hawk and Tim’s relationship, but remains silent. However, her colleague, Miss Lightfoot, has Hawk called in for interrogation, where he is put through a series of humiliating tests in an attempt to determine whether or not he is a homosexual. After Hawk manages to elude the charges, he discusses with Tim the interrogation, McCarthy, and his illicit amusements in New York City. Mary warns Tim of patterns she has seen in Hawk’s relationships, but Tim is too deeply in love to hear her. Later, when Hawk suggests they invite a new office boy to join them in bed, Tim throws Hawk out. Hoping to distract himself from his obsession with Hawk, Tim joins the Army. Meanwhile, Mary, disgusted by the atmosphere of panic and persecution at work, resigns from her job. A few years later, Tim meets Hawk in a house he is renting as a love nest. Hawk tells Tim he has married a woman; to stay close to Hawk, Tim asks to be put in charge of the Hungarian Refugee Relief Effort. When Hawk tells Tim of his satisfaction with his domestic life, Tim leaves, distraught. As Mary packs to leave for New Orleans, Hawk visits and tells her that he outed Tim to the authorities instead of giving the promised recommendation. Hawk asks Mary to tell Tim. Tim, now disgraced, decides to leave Washington. Despite the betrayal, he cannot find it in his heart to be angry with Hawk.
Cast
Hawkins Fuller Joseph Lattanzi Timothy Laughlin Colin Aikins Mary Johnson Keely Futterer~ Miss Lightfoot Kaileigh Riess* Senator Joseph McCarthy/ Estonian Frank/Interrogator Luke Harnish* Lucy Laura Santamaria* Tommy McIntyre Erik Nordstrom* Senator Charles Potter/ General Arlie/Bartender Yichen Xue* Sen. Potter’s Assistant/Bookseller/ Priest/Technician/Party Guest Jose Olivares*
Production
Conductor Kelly Kuo Director Kevin Newbury Associate Director & Intimacy Director Sara E. Widzer Set Designer Vita Tzykun Costume Designer Devario Simmons Lighting Designer Thomas C. Hase Associate Lighting Designer Joe Beumer Hair & Makeup Designer Tom Watson Projected Titles Courtesy of Cincinnati Opera Assistant Director Assistant Conductor Principal Coach Diction Coach Assistant Coach Stage Manager
Doug Clemons* Luke Poeppel* Christopher Devlin Lynn Baker Maeve Berry* Dustin Z West
The Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra
*Member of Resident Artists Program ~Hupper Family Festival Artist
This production is generously sponsored by Ted Snowdon and Duffy Violante. FELLOW TRAVELERS was originally developed and cocommissioned by G. Sterling Zinsmeyer & Cincinnati Opera. Original production directed by Kevin Newbury. Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, sole U.S. and Canadian agent for Schott Helicon Music Corporation, New York, publisher and copyright owner.
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PHOTO BY SUNNY MARTINI
LAVENDER LAMENT by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim As the time drew near of the June 17, 2016 premiere of Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce’s opera Fellow Travelers about a gay love story in Washington, D.C. during the McCarthy era, the time must have seemed auspicious. After all, since the idea of an operatic adaptation of the eponymous novel by Thomas Mallon had first been floated, America seemed to be irreversibly set on its course toward equality and acceptance. Barely a year earlier the Supreme Court had issued a landmark ruling on same-sex marriage. Then, on June 12 a gunman claiming allegiance to the Islamic State entered the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and killed 49 revelers in what became the deadliest incident of anti-gay violence in U.S. history. Pierce recalls receiving the news as the cast and creative team were deep into tech rehearsals at Cincinnati Opera. His libretto has a character gossiping about
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a man who lost his job for having been caught in the “wrong” bar. Half a century of presumed progress later, dozens had lost their lives for much the same reason. “We started to hear everything differently,” Pierce says. “Suddenly there were these parallels.”
Fellow Travelers presents a slice of American history that is rarely examined. It is set during the “Lavender Scare” of the 1950s, when anti-Communist paranoia fueled the targeted persecution of gay and lesbian government workers, who were considered easy targets for blackmail by enemy agents. But the instant popular and critical success of the opera has a more simple explanation. Fellow Travelers is a love story that is at once deeply romantic and unsentimental, set to music that manages to be beautiful without appearing glib and sounds familiar, yet fresh.
Fellow Travelers is a love story that is at once deeply romantic and unsentimental, set to music that manages to be beautiful without appearing glib and sounds familiar, yet fresh. It follows the emotional maturing of Timothy Laughlin, a wide-eyed Fordham graduate newly arrived in Washington, who falls under the spell of the suave and worldly Hawkins Fuller. Hawk, as he is known, works in the State Department and helps Tim get a job as a speechwriter for a senator close to McCarthy. He also initiates a love affair that is Tim’s first taste of sexual fulfillment. At work the atmosphere is poisoned by gossip and suspicion. Hawk successfully lies his way through an intimidating cross-examination of his sexuality. His secretary, Mary, is the only sympathetic character, casting a protective eye on the two men’s relationship even as an unplanned pregnancy brings her up against the cold restrictions of her society. And the men’s relationship itself unravels as Tim’s yearning for monogamous security rubs up against Hawk’s promiscuous restlessness. To wrench himself free Tim enlists in the Army. While Tim is stationed in Europe Hawk marries the bubbly, oblivious Lucy. Tim returns to Washington and the two men resume their love affair, but by now the layers of lies and dissimulation have grown stifling. In a stunning act of betrayal, Hawk denounces Tim, ensuring that he is cast out of town and out of Hawk’s life. The opposition of political forces and private lives is reflected in music that juxtaposes the forward-
pressing energy of Minimalism with the sensual arabesques and turns of troubadour music, a tradition that Spears says fascinates him in part because it was developed to express private and forbidden love in a public and ritualized setting. A strong pulse runs through the score, often tapped out on a piano, that conveys something of the mechanical impatience of a newsroom teleprinter of yore. The vocal writing, mirrored in the woodwinds, seems to revolt against that horizontal thrust with music that is extravagantly melismatic, virtuosic, and willfully individual. Spears’ compositional style is studded with references to the past, including Baroque dance forms that capture the courtly formality of the 1950s in social scenes like the office Christmas party. As Hawk sets up the love nest for his trysts with Tim in Act II the music momentarily turns neoclassical with chirpy Stravinskian winds. At this point the men’s relationship is in its second go-around, beset by compromise and disillusionment, and the neoclassical sound captures something of the artifice and rationed nostalgia of their situation. The transparency of the orchestral texture, created by a chamber-sized ensemble of strings, winds, brass and piano, allows the words of Pierce’s smart dialogue to come through with stenciled clarity. Few composers are as adept as Spears in making conversational American English singable in a way that is both idiomatic and psychologically astute. Tim’s vocal lines are especially revealing of his inner state: music for someone prone to blushing. Take, for example, his job interview, where the words come out in a nervous jumble, one tripping over the next, his voice an unsteady wobble on some words, or shooting
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One reason Fellow Travelers lends itself so well to opera is that the idea of the voice as a conveyor of multilayered meaning is so central to the story. A telling scene is the interrogation of Hawk, designed to test his sexual orientation. Not only is he subjected to a lie detector and ordered to walk the length of the room (“normally. Whatever you would consider normal”), but he is also asked to read out loud. Hawk is first given a news brief, then a passage from Somerset Maugham’s “Of Human Bondage,” in which the male protagonist burrows into a closet full of women’s dresses. The idea that a man’s speech melody, rhythm, or intonation can reveal carefully concealed truths that could undo his career is chilling, of course. But it’s also wonderfully operatic. As it happens, Hawk reads the first text in dead monotone, but turns the literary extract into a flamboyantly expressive performance that just happens to be set to the same music we first hear when he flirted with Tim on a park bench. His interrogators are clearly none the wiser: he passes the test.
For all the oppressive social and political forces weighing on the main characters, the opera’s heart remains wide open — reflected also in the frequent use of guileless octaves and open fifths. Where Mallon’s novel is a dark web of intrigue and blackmail, the opera feels intimate. Pierce remembers being struck by the way Spears set the duet between Tim and Hawk as they dream of Bermuda, shortly before tumbling into bed together. While Hawk reminisces about his adventures there with “bronze boys on the beach — biceps you wouldn’t believe,” Tim is fantasizing about “sand as white as milk.” “Gregory set it in a way that it overlaps,” Pierce says, “so they’re almost not listening to each other. And then suddenly they are singing together. It was remarkable to me. I thought they would be listening to each other and sharing ideas, but they are really in their own worlds. And that feels so true: When we fall in love we are both seeing the other person but we are also creating that person, we want so badly for them to be ‘that’ person that we aren’t really listening to what they’re saying.” PHOTO BY SUNNY MARTINI
up in a pubescent squawk on others. Or listen to the emotion he is trying so hard to bottle up as he shops for a thank-you gift for Hawk in a bookstore. A melismatic tremor catches him off-guard as he mentions the “great man” he is gift-shopping for; you can guess at the effort it takes for him to iron it out as he repeats the words more plainly.
Spears often plays with recurrence of musical material, setting up pairs of scenes as mirror images of each other. Music from Tim’s job interview reappears in a scene involving Senator McCarthy in Act II, reinforcing, as Spears says, “the feeling that Tim has learned a lot: The first time Tim is thinking, ‘here is my future.’ And of course McCarthy is where it’s all curdled.”
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim writes and speaks about music and listening. Her criticism has appeared in publications including the Atlantic, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Her work has been honored with the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Criticism from ASCAP and a residency at the American Academy in Rome. 32 | Fellow Travelers
THE LAVENDER NAMES PROJECT
The Lavender Names Project is a collaboration between the American LGBTQ+ Museum and Up Until Now Collective, created in tandem with the 10th Anniversary Tour of the trailblazing opera Fellow Travelers. The Lavender Names Project is a grassroots, nation-wide archival research/community outreach initiative that aims to collect photos and stories of members of the LGBTQ+ community who were systematically discriminated against and fired by federal and local governments in the United States, including the military, from the “Lavender Scare” in the 1950s, to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the 1990s, to today. The photos will become part of an ever-growing visual archive which will appear on stage at the end of each Fellow Travelers opera performance as a living memorial to the many LGBTQ+ people who suffered this decades-long persecution. If you or someone in your family — including chosen family — have ever been fired from a Federal or local government job for being LGBTQ+, including the United States military, we invite you to share your story — or your loved one’s story — alongside a photo that will be included in our archive and our onstage photo installation.
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YOUTH OPERA
Robin Hood
Music by Ben Moore Libretto by Kelley Rourke Commissioned by The Glimmerglass Festival
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New production Sung in English with English projected titles Running time: One hour with no intermission
AUGUST 2, 4, 7m, 2026 Cast The Sheriff, backed by five deputies, proclaims his intention to exploit Sherwood Forest for his own personal gain. Meanwhile, Robin Hood is desperate to leave the Sheriff ’s version of “civilization” behind. Scarlet, a mysterious bird-like creature, encourages Robin to head the resistance. One by one, disgruntled citizens appear, singing of the Sheriff ’s injustices. Marion whips up the crowd and their anger builds, threatening to turn violent. Robin, remembering Scarlet’s message, steps up to “lead with love.” Ronnie and Jackie, two of the Sheriff ’s deputies, come upon Robin and attack him. Robin never throws a punch, but the two deputies, by sheer ineptitude, manage to knock each other out. Members of the Merry Band appear to describe their way of life; moved, Ronnie and Jackie join the band, not realizing that Scout, another of the Sheriff ’s deputies, is spying nearby. The Sheriff, furious that Robin continues to evade him, plans an archery contest to draw him out. Robin quickly wins the competition and escapes with the prize. But before Robin knows what has happened, he is jumped by the three remaining deputies, who capture both Robin and Marion. When the deputies go to find the Sheriff, members of the Merry Band rescue their leaders. King Richard returns and has a chance encounter with Robin. The Sheriff stumbles in and tries to sell the King his alternative facts, to no avail. However, encouraged by Robin and the Merry Band, the King forgives the Sheriff, who sees the error of his ways.
Sheriff Noah Mond* Scarlet Lauren Torey* Robin Hood Neptune Burgher Marion Mackenzie Colby Scout Giovanni Priola Jackie the Janitor Lily Tolbert Ronnie the Riveter Celia Begin Sam the Scribe Cordelia Dziuban Jo the Jailor Myles Rouggly King Richard Victor A.Vasilev Merry Band Arianne Ajakh Francesca Anderson Maddox Bennett Leo Burr Nadia Buttermann Bella Collis Ruby Cotton Tobias Frederickson Kian Grady Cate Speed Leinhart Owen Holsonbake Lowe Danniella Rivera-Litz Anais Summers Robbins Elizabeth Shaver Ella Swift Levi Tracy Eleanor Walker Carter Whiteman
Production
Conductor Kimberley-Ann Bartczak Director Eric Sean Fogel Set Designer James Rotondo Costume Designer Sophie Schneider Lighting Designer Bridget S. Williams Sound Designer Joel T. Morain Hair & Makeup Designer Charlotte Seidensticker Projected Titles Nick Richardson Assistant Director Principal Pianist Assistant Pianist Stage Manager
Dylan Cole* Tongyao Li* Maeve Berry* Itzel Martinez
This production generously sponsored by Van Broughton Ramsey and Robert Nelson Fenimore Asset Management and FAM Funds
*Member of Resident Artists Program
Jacqueline B. Mars
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PHOTO: KARLI CADEL
A Character of Courage and Conscience “It’s not fair!” A child’s first experiences of injustice — from an unfair accusation to an unequal distribution of cookies — are likely to draw sharp howls of protest. Part of growing up is learning that howling isn’t often helpful and life isn’t always fair. But that doesn’t mean that any of us are powerless to confront injustice. The story of Robin Hood, at heart, is a story about the triumph of fairness, which helps to explain its enduring appeal. Shrewd or simple, aristocrat or yeoman, valiant or just plain lucky, Robin Hood has appeared in many guises over the centuries, but he is mostly known for standing up for commoners in the face of tyrannical authority. An antagonist of the Sheriff of Nottingham in late-medieval narrative ballads, Robin was later associated with protecting the kingdom of Richard the Lionheart during the misrule of Richard’s brother, John. Robin was mentioned in several Shakespeare plays, and is a leading player in a Ben Jonson drama satirizing Puritanism. Children’s versions of the legend began appearing in the 19th century.
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The cult of Robin Hood continued into the 20th century. A 1938 film cast Errol Flynn as Robin, working to defeat the oppressive regime of Prince John while his brother, Richard, fights in the Third Crusade. An animated Disney film (1973) portrayed Robin as a wily anthropomorphic fox. Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964), a musical set in 1930s Chicago, starred Frank Sinatra as “Robbo.” The imbecilic Hood at the center of Mel Brooks’ comic TV series When Things Were Rotten (1975) was resurrected for Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993); Ridley Scott’s film (2010), starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, is deadly serious, serving up an epic historical war. In 2017, Francesca Zambello, then Artistic & General Director, commissioned librettist Kelley Rourke and composer Ben Moore to create a youth opera inspired by the legend of Robin Hood. The team knew their Robin had to be a character of courage and conscience. But what are his concerns, exactly? Taxing, tithing, clerics, the Crusades — none of these traditional motivations seemed like the right “hook” for today’s young audience. Instead, they focused on an elemental threat: the Sheriff’s ruthless
YOUTH OPERA exploitation of the forest, where members of the Merry Band make their home. As both Disney and HannaBarbera knew, there is plenty of entertainment value to be found in the simple story of a wily underdog getting the better of a more powerful opponent. But an opera wants an emotional journey, not just a series of comic battles. Rourke and Moore landed on a somewhat atypical portrayal of Robin, a character who is opposite the Sheriff in every way.
PHOTO: BRENT DELANOY
For the Sheriff, a different view of reality is an invitation to battle. Marion, another member of the Merry Band, proposes they meet the Sheriff on his own violent terms. Robin, for his part, prefers to avoid confrontation, but with the help of Scarlet, his red-breasted alter ego, he comes to realize that he can win without going to war. Taking his cue from Scarlet’s inspirational anthem, “Lead with Love,” Robin gathers others who, like him, have fled the town to live in Sherwood Forest. Robin encourages the rebels to set aside their belligerence, countering the Sheriff’s actions by creating a community that lives in harmony with the natural world — and with each other.
PHOTO: SOFIA NEGRON
A kid-friendly close-up on the creation of Robin Hood is available on our website.
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IN THE PAVILION
Happy End
JULY 28 & 31
Happy End at Universal Preservation Hall. Ana Karneža as The Fly and Rob Ainsley on piano. Photo by Brent DeLanoy.
Book by E lisabeth Hauptmann (under the pseudonym “Dorothy Lane”)
Music and lyrics by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht American adaptation by Michael Feingold Concert version by Kelley Rourke Presented in English Running time: 90 minutes (with no intermission) Presented under license from European American Music Distributors Company, on behalf of The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc. and the Heirs of Bertolt Brecht
*Member of Resident Artists Program ~Hupper Family Festival Artist ***Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya Artist
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Cast
Lieutenant Lillian Holiday Christine Taylor Price Bill Cracker Gregory Feldmann~ The Fly Ana Karneža*** Major Lisa Marie Rogali Governor Jonathan Pierce Rhodes Hannibal Brad Bickhardt Benny Jason Zacher Jimmy William Raskin* Maryjane Lauren Torey* Joe/Inspector Rob Ainsley
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Music Director/Pianist Rob Ainsley Director Mary Birnbaum Set Designer Tobin Ost Costume Designer Márion Talán de la Rosa Hair & Makeup Consultant Sarah Cimino Stage Manager Kathleen Stakenas
Playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill met in Berlin in 1927 and set out to create a revolution, social and aesthetic. As Weill later wrote, “Opera was founded as an aristocratic form of art ... if the framework of opera is unable to withstand the impact of the age, then this framework must be destroyed ... in The Threepenny Opera, reconstruction was possible insofar as here we had a chance of starting from scratch.” Brecht and Weill worked in collaboration with the women in their lives: actresses Lotte Lenya and Helene Weigel, and writer/translator Elisabeth Hauptmann. It was Hauptmann who obtained a copy of The Beggar’s Opera, translated it into German, proposed it to Brecht, and worked with the two men as they created their biggest hit, a critique of contemporary society grounded in 18th-century London. At Threepenny’s 1928 premiere, the Berliner Börsen- Courier hailed the creation of “a new world, in which the frontiers of tragedy and humor are eradicated.” It was a commercial success, too, and producer Ernst Josef Aufricht was eager for a second piece in the same mold. Brecht, busy with other projects, suggested Hauptmann take the lead on the new play, which became Happy End. Hauptmann’s book was set in present-day America, a milieu that held a fascination for all three creators. The story revolves around the gangster Bill Cracker, who is caught between two dangerously compelling women: Lillian Holiday, a maverick officer of the Salvation Army, and The Fly, a deadly dame who directs the gang from behind the scenes. A conventional good/ evil binary proves an uncomfortable fit for the unfolding narrative, in which missionaries and gangsters alike struggle to survive in a system stacked against them.
ABOUT THE TOUR This new touring production brings together The Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Saratoga, Finger Lakes Opera, and Seagle Festival in a shared effort to expand access to opera across the region. The Glimmerglass Festival convened these partner organizations to build a sustainable statewide touring model.
On opening night, Happy End’s first two acts were well received, which hardly seems a surprise: they contain some of the best songs the team ever wrote. However, The Fly’s final, scathing monologue caused a near riot (and not in a good way). Brecht and Weill set the piece aside, but not before recycling some of the best bits for other works in progress. Scarcely two months after Happy End’s disastrous premiere, the “Roaring Twenties” came to an abrupt end with the great Wall Street crash of 1929; the aftershocks provided an opportunity for Adolf Hitler, who promised to strengthen the German economy, provide jobs, and repudiate the shameful Versailles Treaty. A desperate populace threw support behind his increasingly authoritarian regime; within four years, the creators of Happy End were forced to flee Germany. Each of them landed in America, the rumbustious young country that had inspired the (temporarily) forgotten Happy End. In 1972, Michael Feingold’s freewheeling adaptation brought Happy End back before the public — this time, more happily; it eventually scored multiple Tony and Drama Desk nominations. Our concert version offers a fast-paced new book, Feingold’s translation of every song originally written for the show, and one bonus track. The trio that produced Happy End had a robust practice of recycling material, their own and others, and in that spirit, we have borrowed a song from Kurt Weill’s incidental music for Konjunktur, a 1928 play about the struggle for control of an oil field. “The Petroleum Song,” freshly translated for our production by Kelley Rourke, tells the tale of a seaside idyll fouled in pursuit of profit and connects the cascade of “happy ends” with The Fly’s infamous last word.
Sat, May 9 Sun, May 10 Sat, May 16 Sun, May 17 Thu, May 28 Fri, May 29 Sat, May 30 Thu, July 23 Thu, Nov 12
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Clark Art Institute Munson Tannery Pond Center Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Universal Preservation Hall Hudson Hall Universal Preservation Hall Robert F. Panara Theatre Kaufmann Music Center
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Vignettes: Ellis Island A powerful song cycle inspired by real stories of early 20th-century immigrants, Vignettes: Ellis Island gives voice to those who passed through one of America’s most iconic gateways. Drawing on interviews from the Ellis Island Oral History Project, composer Alan Louis Smith brings to life the resilience, hope, and humanity at the heart of the immigrant experience through 20 moving musical portraits.
Composer Alan Louis Smith
AUGUST 6 & 13 Singers Lucy Evans* Randy Ho* Woosik Nam* Laura Santamaria* Alex Smith* Nia Spaulding* Pianist
Maeve Berry*
Director
Edward Sturm*
Sung in English with English projected titles Running time: One hour (with no intermission) Performance by permission of Estate of Alan Louis Smith
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*Member of Resident Artists Program
THE PAVILION
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2026 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE National Symphony Orchestra, and many others. He appears as Stefano in Deutsche Grammophon’s recording of Adès The Tempest, which received the 2014 GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording. Renowned for his dramatic gifts, Burdette has created more than a dozen roles in world premieres and is widely regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of comic — or buffo — roles of his generation. His performances balance razor-sharp wit with emotional depth, bringing audiences characters who are at once larger-than-life and deeply recognizable.
KEVIN Burdette For 2026 Artist-in-Residence, Kevin Burdette, returning to The Glimmerglass Festival as Artist-in-Residence is more than a professional milestone — it is a homecoming.
Burdette has built an international career distinguished by his commanding voice and extraordinary comic timing. Hailed by The New York Times as “the Robin Williams of opera,” he is celebrated equally for his vocal virtuosity and his ability to bring warmth, intelligence, and charm to the characters he inhabits. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, The Juilliard School, and Columbia Law School, Burdette trained with both the Opéra National de Paris Young Artists’ Program and San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program before launching a career that has taken him to many of the world’s leading opera houses and concert stages. His appearances include performances at Teatro alla Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro Colón, Opéra de Montréal, Washington National Opera, Dallas Opera, and over 100 performances at both Santa Fe Opera and New York City Opera, as well as collaborations with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, 42
This season, Burdette takes on the role of Alfonso in Così — the cynical philosopher who sets the opera’s romantic entanglements in motion. It is a role perfectly suited to Burdette’s gifts: an enigmatic character who delights in human folly while revealing truths about love, loyalty, and the stories we tell ourselves. As Artist-in-Residence, Burdette will also mentor members of Glimmerglass’s Resident Artists Program, sharing insights and experiences gained over a remarkable career. The opportunity holds special significance for him, as Glimmerglass played an important role in his own artistic development. “I am deeply moved to have been asked to be the 2026 Artist-in-Residence at The Glimmerglass Festival, an opera company that shaped who I am as an artist and as a person. And I can think of no more meaningful way to return to this world-class company — this innovative company, this company that is deeply part of who I am — than in the capacity of working with the incredible Resident Artists, the future of our art form,” says Burdette. “Just as Glimmerglass guided me decades ago, I hope to guide this year’s Resident Artists in becoming the origins of their stories. Stories that will resonate with audiences. Stories that will challenge audiences to recognize their individualities and their commonalities. Stories that will be told on stage and shared throughout their careers.” Whether commanding the stage as Alfonso or sharing his knowledge with the next generation, Kevin Burdette brings to Glimmerglass a rare combination of artistry, wisdom, and joy — qualities that have defined his career and continue to enrich the art form he loves.
Kevin Burdette in Glimmerglass productions of L’Étoile (2001) and Bluebeard (2003). Photos by George Mott.
The Road Home: Schubert’s Winterreise Join Kevin Burdette and Artistic & General Director Rob Ainsley as they take you on a journey inward. In this intimate presentation, Schubert’s great song cycle, Winterreise, will be framed by three companion pieces — performed by 2026 Resident Artists — that serve as musical bookends and points of reflection along the journey. The result will be a richly layered evening of music that reflects on solitude, longing, and memory, giving voice to the experience of feeling like an outsider.
Tickets $50 Venue Pavilion Date August 3, 2026 Time 4:30 p.m. Running time 80 mins (with no intermission)
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2026 HUPPER FAMILY FESTIVAL ARTISTS
Celebrating Legacy, Launching Talent The Hupper Family Festival Artists Program reflects The Glimmerglass Festival’s enduring commitment to nurturing the next generation of opera and musical theater artists. Made possible through a generous gift from the Hupper family in memory of longtime trustee Joyce McC. Hupper and her husband, John R. (Jack) Hupper, the program supports exceptional early-career singers as they take the next steps in their professional journeys. Each summer, two artists are selected from among recent Resident Artist alumni and return to Glimmerglass to perform featured roles, present a solo performance, and participate in career development opportunities, including auditions for agents and presenting companies. They are also highlighted in Festival media, marketing, and publications. At a time when opportunities for emerging artists are increasingly limited, the Hupper Family Festival Artists Program honors Joyce and Jack Hupper and represents a meaningful investment in the future of the art form. It affirms Glimmerglass’s role as a vital training ground and launching pad for young professionals. We are delighted to welcome soprano Keely Futterer and baritone Gregory Feldmann, both former Resident Artists whose work left a lasting impression on Glimmerglass audiences and staff alike.
KEELY Futterer Praised by Chicago Classical for her “fantastic voice and emotive stage presence,” soprano Keely Futterer has performed leading operatic and concert roles across the United States. In the 2025–26 season, she appeared with Cedar Rapids Opera as Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus and performed with the Arkansas Symphony and Philharmonia Northwest before returning to The Glimmerglass Festival as Mary Johnson in Fellow 44
Travelers and Despina in Così. Recent engagements include debuts with Virginia Opera and Chicago Opera Theater, as well as appearances with Madison Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, and Minnesota Opera. A champion of both standard repertoire and new works, Futterer has earned acclaim for roles including Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Anna Sørenson in Silent Night, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, the title role in Rodelinda, and Marie in La Fille du régiment. She studied at Arkansas Tech University and the Eastman School of Music and has participated in artist training programs at The Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Saratoga, Opera Memphis, and Tulsa Opera. “When I auditioned for Glimmerglass in 2021, I was at a point in my career where I was disheartened with the ‘biz’ and really thought I was done performing. As a final farewell, I decided to take two auditions and then be done with it, one of which, of course, was for Glimmerglass. Getting that offer felt like finally being seen after years of frustration. When I say that ‘GlimGlam’ has been life-changing, I really don’t
exaggerate. As a young artist, I sang mainstage lead roles (Angostura LaBelle in Tenor Overboard in 2022 and Armida in Rinaldo in 2023), as well as comprimario roles, large cover opportunities, and recitals. ‘GlimGlam’ puts their Resident Artists on stage in roles, something that very few companies offer, and an invaluable experience. To be a Hupper Family Festival Artist this summer, alongside Greg Feldmann, who was actually my roommate in 2022 and has continued to be a treasured friend and inspiring artist, feels like a poetic continuation of Glimmerglass’s commitment to investing in young artists. They aren’t trying to find
bodies to fill a chorus, but young singers to invest in as real artists with real careers. During the ‘22 and ‘23 seasons, I made sincere and lasting friendships, worked with brilliant directors and conductors, and felt supported and inspired to be unapologetically myself as an opera singer. From the dressers, stage crew, stage management, the coaching staff, creative teams, up through the head of the company with Andrea, Joe, Lauren, Francesca, and now Rob...Glimmerglass is a living, breathing example of Gesamtkunstwerk (sorry for the million-dollar word), and I am so happy to be coming back ‘home’ this summer.”
of Song and the Brooklyn Art Song Society. He holds a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies from the Juilliard School. “It feels so, so good to return to Glimmerglass this summer. It’s a place where you get to witness staggering levels of talent in every department. The costumes are stunning, the sets are award-winning, and the orchestra sounds immaculate. As a Resident Artist in 2022, I remember being so deeply impressed by Kathy Kozak, Glimmerglass’s chorus master, who prepared us with such a commitment to focus and detail before every show. It’s a summer where you leave knowing you and a whole collective have given their all to make something Praised by Musical America for his “hearty, luxurious beautiful in a stunning landscape around Lake Otsego. It baritone,” Gregory Feldmann is an emerging artist has been so fulfilling to take Glimmerglass’s brilliance on both opera and recital stages. A winner of the on the road and share Kurt Weill’s Happy End with so 2025 Sullivan Foundation Awards, he returns to The many communities in upstate New York and western Glimmerglass Festival in 2026 as a Hupper Family Mass. And I’m deeply excited to bring Mozart’s Così into Festival Artist, performing Guglielmo in Così and Bill our own vernacular with Kelley Rourke’s new English Cracker in Happy End. Recent engagements include libretto, alongside my fellow 2022 Resident Artist and appearances with the Metropolitan Opera, Opernhaus 2026 Hupper Family Festival Artist, Keely Futterer. Keely Zürich, the Buxton International Festival, and Blackwater and I were roommates in 2022 and partners in absurdity Valley Opera Festival, with acclaimed performances in Tenor Overboard, and to share a stage with someone in roles including the title role in Hamlet, Mercutio as gloriously talented as her again is just the best . in Roméo et Juliette, and Demetrius in A Midsummer Ultimately, I’m grateful for this place and its Night’s Dream. An accomplished recitalist, Feldmann commitment to being a haven for emerging artists to has appeared at Carnegie Hall and collaborated with thrive and step into their own!” leading organizations, including the New York Festival
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GUEST ARTISTS
MICHAEL ADAMS Fort Worth, Texas Glimmerglass 2026: Curly McLain in Oklahoma! Past: Dancaïre, Carmen, Scarus, Antony & Cleopatra, Metropolitan Opera; Figaro, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Nashville Opera, Utah Opera; Lieutenant Audebert, Silent Night, Papageno, Die Zaberflöre, Washington National Opera; Count, Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Omaha, Madison Opera, Utah Opera; Eugene Onegin, Eugene Onegin, Guglielmo, Così fan tutte, Seattle Opera; Marcello, La bohème, Grand Théâtre de Genéve, Utah Opera Future: Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni, Florida Grand Opera COLIN AIKINS Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Glimmerglass 2026: Timothy Laughlin in Fellow Travelers Past: Timothy Laughlin, Fellow Travelers, Seattle Opera; Ruiz, Il trovatore, Second Jew, Salome, Hamburg State Opera; Prologue/Peter Quint, The Turn of the Screw, Juilliard Opera ROB AINSLEY Cooperstown, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Music Director/Piano for Happy End, The Road Home: Schubert’s Winterreise Past: Conductor/Keyboard, La Calisto, The Glimmerglass Festival; Director, Cafritz Young Artists Program & American Opera Initiative, Washington National Opera; Pianist, Met Stars Live in Concert with Renee Fleming; Head of Music & Chorus Master, Minnesota Opera; Head of Music & Chorus Master, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Associate Music Director, Portland Opera; Co-Founder & Music Director, Greenwich Music Festival Future: Continues as Artistic & General Director of The Glimmerglass Festival KATE ASHTON West Orange, New Jersey Glimmerglass 2026: Lighting Designer for Così Past: Lighting Designer, Elizabeth Cree, The Glimmerglass Festival; Lighting Designer, Of Mice and Men, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Des Moines Metro Opera; Lighting Designer, Wozzeck, Des Moines Metro Opera; Lighting Designer, Sleeping Beauty, The Washington Ballet; Lighting Designer, Cinderella, Ballet West; Lighting Designer, The Turn of the Screw, The Juilliard School; Lighting Designer, Hometown to the World, Santa Fe Opera
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AMANDA BATISTA New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Fiordiligi in Così Past: Nedda, Pagliacci, Minnesota Opera; Helen, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Metropolitan Opera; Micaëla, Carmen, Wolf Trap Opera; Mimì, La bohème, The Atlanta Opera Future: Soprano Soloist, Verdi Requiem, Louisville Orchestra; Vocal Arts DC Recital, Vocal Arts DC; Countess Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro, Nashville Opera JOE BEUMER Brooklyn, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Associate Lighting Designer for Fellow Travelers Past: Associate Lighting Designer, Fellow Travelers, Seattle Opera, Portland Opera, Prototype Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Diego Opera; Scenic & Lighting Designer, State of the Jews, American Opera Projects; Lighting Designer, La traviata, Opera Colorado; Lighting Designer, La bohème, Pacific Symphony; Associate Lighting Designer, A Christmas Carol, The Old Vic, PAC NYC; Associate Lighting Designer, Iolanta, Göteborg Opera Future: Lighting Designer, Macbeth, Opera Colorado BRAD BICKHARDT Columbia, New Jersey Glimmerglass 2026: Hannibal in Happy End Past: Goro (cover), Madame Butterfly, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Goro, Madame Butterfly, St. Barth’s Music Festival; Rinuccio, Gianni Schicchi, Anchorage Opera; Alfredo, La traviata, Livermore Valley Opera; Glenn, This House (World Premiere), Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Future: Frederic, The Pirates of Penzance, Arizona Opera; Goro, Madame Butterfly, Opera Orlando KEN BILLINGTON New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Lighting Designer for Oklahoma! Past: Lighting Designer, Beaches, SMASH, New York, New York, Waitress, Chicago (Tony Award), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Broadway; Architecture, Tavern on the Green New York City MARY BIRNBAUM New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Director for Happy End Past: Director, In a Grove, Prototype Festival; Director, Rigoletto, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Director, Émigré, New York Philharmonic; Director, The Turn of the Screw, Juilliard School; Future: Director, La bohème, Santa Fe Opera; Director, My Fair Lady, Opera Saratoga; Director, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Minnesota Opera
KEVIN BURDETTE Knoxville, Tennessee Glimmerglass 2026: Artist-in-Residence; Alfonso in Così; Soloist in The Road Home: Schubert’s Winterreise Past: Stefano, The Tempest, Teatro alla Scala; Spinelloccio, Gianni Schicchi, Metropolitan Opera; Pangloss/Martin, Candide, Gran Teatre del Liceu; Bartolo, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Santa Fe Opera; Papinou, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Dallas Opera; Sulpice, La ille du régiment, Washington National Opera; Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Atlanta Opera JOSEPH COLANERI Milburn, New Jersey Glimmerglass 2026: Conductor for Così, Madame Butterfly Past: Conductor, Pagliacci, The Glimmerglass Festival; Conductor, Pagliacci, Utah Opera; Conductor, L’amico Fritz, Academy of Vocal Arts; Conductor, Mefistofele, Metropolitan Opera; Conductor, La bohème, Teatro Colón; Conductor, The Ghosts of Versailles, L’Opéra Royale de Versailles Future: Continues as Music Director, The Glimmerglass Festival; Conductor, Le nozze di Figaro, Academy of Vocal Arts TROY COOK Henry County, Kentucky Glimmerglass 2026: Andrew Carnes in Oklahoma!; Sharpless in Madame Butterfly Past: Marcello, La bohème, Austin Opera; Athanael, Thais, Spoleto Festival; Baritone Soloist, Carmina Burana, Oregon Symphony; Bernard Cohen, Loving v. Virginia, Virginia Opera; Giorgio Germont, La traviata, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; Major General, The Pirates of Penzance, Knoxville Opera; Paul Devon, The Listeners, Opera Philadelphia PETER J. DAVISON London, England Glimmerglass 2026: Set Designer for Oklahoma! Past: Set Designer, The Yeomen of the Guard, Porgy and Bess, La traviata, Show Boat, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, The Glimmerglass Festival; Set Designer, Der Rosenkavalier, Carmen, Mary Stuart, English National Opera; Set Designer, Anna Bolena, Bayerische Staatsoper; Set Designer, The Rake’s Progress, Le nozze di Figaro, Cyrano de Bergerac, Metropolitan Opera ERIC EINHORN Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey Glimmerglass 2026: Director for Così Past: General & Artistic Director/Stage Director, On Site Opera; Director, Turandot, Pacific Symphony; Director, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Glimmerglass Festival; Staff Stage Director, Metropolitan Opera Future: Stage Director, Don Giovanni, Utah Opera; General Director of Opera Delaware
GREGORY FELDMANN Brooklyn, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Hupper Family Festival Artist; Guglielmo in Così; Bill Cracker in Happy End Past: Tracy Bacon (cover), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Dancaïre (cover), Carmen, Metropolitan Opera; Dancaïre, Carmen, Opernhaus Zürich; Marcello, La bohème, Opera Saratoga; Hamlet, Hamlet, Buxton International Festival; Demetrius, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Blackwater Valley Opera Festival Future: Mercutio, Roméo et Juliette, Opernhaus Zürich ERIC SEAN FOGEL Charleston, South Carolina Glimmerglass 2026: Associate Director & Choreographer for Oklahoma!, Director for Robin Hood Past: Director & Choreographer, The Rake’s Progress, Director, Odyssey, The Glimmerglass Festival; Director, Barber of Seville, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Director, The Barber of Seville, Central City Opera; Director, Songbird, Washington National Opera; Revival Director, Norma, Metropolitan Opera Future: Continues as Head of Stage Movement & Choreography/Artistic Associate at The Glimmerglass Festival; Associate Director & Choreographer, Candide, LA Opera; Revival Director, The Magic Flute, Metropolitan Opera; Associate Director & Choreographer, Show Boat, Houston Grand Opera KEELY FUTTERER Dover, Arkansas Glimmerglass 2026: Hupper Family Festival Artist, Mary Johnson in Fellow Travelers, Despina in Così Past: Rosalinda, Die Fledermaus, Cedar Rapids Opera; Soprano Soloist, Verdi’s Requiem, Erie Philharmonic; Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte, Virginia Opera; Rosina, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Madison Opera; Anna Sørenson, Silent Night, Wolf Trap Opera Future: Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte, Tulsa Opera; Norma, Norma, Madison Opera BETH GOLDENBERG Brooklyn, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Costume Designer for Così Past: Costume Designer, Sunday in the Park with George, the little match girl passion, Stabat Mater, Macbeth, The Glimmerglass Festival; Costume Designer, Lucidity, Seattle Opera, On Site Opera; Costume Designer, Lady M, Heartbeat Opera
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GUEST ARTISTS THOMAS C. HASE Cincinnati, Ohio Glimmerglass 2026: Lighting Designer for Fellow Travelers Past: Lighting Designer, Fellow Travelers, Seattle Opera; Lighting Designer, Der Freischütz, The Vienna State Opera; Lighting Designer, L’elisir d’amore, Santa Fe Opera Future: Continues as Resident Lighting Designer, Cincinnati Opera; Lighting and Projections Designer, Turandot, Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra; Lighting Designer, Tristan and Isolde, Taiwan National Performing Arts Center; Lighting Designer, Tosca, The Atlanta Opera CONSTANCE HOFFMAN Brooklyn, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Costume Designer for Oklahoma! Past: Costume Designer: Guys and Dolls, Shakespeare Theatre; La bohème, Der fliegende Holländer, Santa Fe Opera; Antony and Cleopatra, Metropolitan Opera; Tannhaüser, Houston Grand Opera; Doppelgänger, Park Avenue Armory; Così fan tutte, The Dallas Opera JOSHUA R. HOROWITZ Old Bethpage, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Revival Director for Madame Butterfly Past: Associate Director, Porgy and Bess, Houston Grand Opera; Associate Director, La traviata, The Atlanta Opera; Revival Director, Madame Butterfly, North Carolina Opera; Assistant Director, West Side Story, Washington National Opera Future: Assistant Director, La bohème, Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Associate Director, Fiddler on the Roof, Opera San José; Associate Director, Fiddler on the Roof, Detroit Opera ANA KARNEŽA Brooklyn, New York Glimmerglass 2026: The Fly in Happy End Past: Lotte Lenya Competition 2024 winner; Ana Karneža in Concert, Kurt Weill Festival; Soloist, Gala Evening of Slovenian Song, Festival Arsana; Irena, Good American Family (limited series), Hulu; Azdak, Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Juilliard School KELLY KUO Hermiston, Oregon Glimmerglass 2026: Conductor for Fellow Travelers Past: Conductor, Daughter of the Regiment, Boston Lyric Opera; Conductor, Nordic Nights, Carmel Symphony Orchestra; Conductor, Tosca, Parnassus Society; Conductor, Madama Butterfly, Arizona Opera; Conductor, L’amant anonyme, Oberlin Opera Theater; Conductor, Once Upon a Mattress, Central City Opera Future: Continues as Music Director, Reno Chamber Orchestra; Continues as Associate Artistic Director, American Lyric Theater; Conductor, The Pigeon Keeper, Opera Omaha
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JOSEPH LATTANZI Atlanta, Georgia Glimmerglass 2026: Hawkins Fuller in Fellow Travelers Past: Hawkins Fuller, Fellow Travelers, Seattle Opera, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera; Baritone Soloist, Carmina Burana, Austin Symphony; Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni, Arizona Opera; Paul Jobs, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, San Francisco Opera Future: William Dale, Silent Night, The Atlanta Opera JAMES LOWE New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Conductor for Oklahoma! Past: Conductor, West Side Story, Washington National Opera; Conductor, Phoenix Symphony; Conductor, Der Silbersee, Chicago Opera Theater; Conductor, Guys and Dolls, Shakespeare Theater Company; Conductor/Arranger/Orchestrator, A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Conductor, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Lyric Opera Kansas City; Conductor, La bohème/Rent, The Atlanta Opera MICHELLE MARIPOSA Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines Glimmerglass 2026: Suzuki in Madame Butterfly, Dorabella in Così Past: National Winner, Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Metropolitan Opera; La Ciesca and Monitress, Il trittico, National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall; Soloist, Mozart C Minor Mass, Bellingham Chamber Chorale; Rebecca Nurse, The Crucible, Washington National Opera; The Fox/A Rose, The Little Prince, Washington National Opera Future: Suzuki, Madame Butterfly, Washington National Opera; Carmen, Scenes from Carmen, Manila Symphony Orchestra BEN MOORE Syracuse, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Composer for Robin Hood Past: Composer, Awake in the Dark, Flea Theater; Composer, Enemies: a Love Story, Palm Beach Opera; Composer, Odyssey, The Glimmerglass Festival; Composer, Dear Theo, Merkin Concert Hall; Composer, The Wave Rises, Cantori New York JOEL T. MORAIN Cooperstown, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Sound Designer for Oklahoma! and Robin Hood Past: Freelance design and technical roles, Guthrie Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Yale University, Hartford Stage; Technical Director, Hartwick College, Colgate University; Audio Coordinator, The Glimmerglass Festival, Attica Prison, Royal Opera House Muscat, Palace of Versailles; Technical Theater Advisor, Cooperstown High School, Central Valley Academy, Orpheus Theatre Future: Continues as Resident Sound Designer and Audio Video Coordinator, The Glimmerglass Festival
ERI NAKAMURA Munich, Germany Glimmerglass 2026: Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly Past: Cio-Cio-San, Madame Butterfly, Opera Colorado, Canadian Opera Company, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Gilda, Rigoletto, Violetta, La traviata, New National Theatre, Tokyo; Suor Angelica, Suor Angelica, Dorset Opera Festival Future: Nedda, Pagliacci, New National Theatre, Tokyo KEVIN NEWBURY New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Director for Fellow Travelers Past: Director, Fellow Travelers, Seattle Opera, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera; Director, SOUL(SIGNS): Making Music Visible, PBS/ WNET/All-Arts Future: Director, Fellow Travelers, Washington National Opera, Austin Opera; Director, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, Finnish National Opera TOBIN OST Richfield Springs, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Set Designer for Happy End Past: Scenic Designer, Newsies, Disney Theatrical, Broadway; Scenic & Costume Designer, Bonnie & Clyde, Jekyll & Hyde, Broadway; Scene Designer, Disaster - the Musical, Broadway; Scenic Designer, A Complicated Woman, Goodspeed Musicals Future: Scenic Designer, Elephant Shoes, Deaf West Theater GREG PIERCE Shelburne, Vermont Glimmerglass 2026: Librettist for Fellow Travelers Past: Librettist, The Hours, Metropolitan Opera; Librettist, The Glitch, Catapult Opera; Book/ Lyrics, Kid Victory, The Landing, Vineyard Theater; Playwright, Slowgirl, Her Requiem, Lincoln Center Theater; Playwright, Cardinal, Second Stage Theater SHEREEN PIMENTEL Teaneck, New Jersey Glimmerglass 2026: Laurey Williams in Oklahoma! Past: Maria, West Side Story, Broadway; Eva Perón, Evita, American Repertory Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company; Jellylorum, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Perelman Arts Center; Guenevere, Camelot, MUNY; Caroline Neville, Titanic, Ogunquit Playhouse; Maria, West Side Story, Houston Grand Opera; Young Nala, The Lion King, Broadway
JONATHAN PIERCE RHODES Washington, D.C. Glimmerglass 2026: Governor in Happy End Past: Zodzetrick, Treemonisha, Washington National Opera; Mingo, Porgy and Bess, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera; Policeman 2/The Son (cover), Blue, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Tenor Soloist, Lobgesang (“Hymn of Praise”)/All Shall Rise, Oratorio Society of New York (Carnegie Hall Debut); Timothy Laughlin, Fellow Travelers, Opera Parallèle Future: Tenor Soloist, The Drop That Contained the Sea, Billings Symphony; Tenor Soloist, Messiah, Apollo’s Fire NICK RICHARDSON Virginia Beach, Virginia Glimmerglass 2026: Titles for Robin Hood Past: Youth Opera Titles Designer, The Glimmerglass Festival; Chorus, Virginia Opera; Director/Choreographer, Hadestown: Teen Edition, Princess Anne High School; Future: Dramaturg, Threads: A New Musical, Wanderlust Arts LISA MARIE ROGALI Hawley, Pennsylvania Glimmerglass 2026: Major in Happy End Past: Carmen, Carmen, Opera Montana; Offred Double, The Handmaid’s Tale, Detroit Opera; Angelina, La Cenerentola, Virginia Opera; Rosina, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Central City Opera; Future: Rosina, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Kentucky Opera; Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro, San Diego Opera JAMES ROTONDO Boston, Massachusetts Glimmerglass 2026: Set Designer for Così and Robin Hood Past: Associate Scenic Designer, 2025 Season, The Glimmerglass Festival; Scenic Designer, Orpheus and Eurydice, Pacific Opera Victoria; Scenic Designer, Rigoletto, Vancouver Opera; Scenic Designer, The Little Prince, Pacific Opera Victoria; Scenic Designer, Pagliacci, The Glimmerglass Festival; Scenic Designer, Songbird, Washington National Opera KELLEY ROURKE Brooklyn and Roseboom, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Concert version, Happy End; Librettist for Robin Hood and Così; projected titles for Oklahoma!, Madame Butterfly, Così Past: Librettist, Hansel and Gretel, Royal Opera House; Librettist, Eat the Document, Prototype Festival; Librettist, Jungle Book, Resonance Works; Librettist, Songbird, Kentucky Opera; Librettist, Odyssey, Welsh National Opera Future: Librettist, A River Runs Through It, Opera Montana; Librettist, O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky, Washington National Opera
CHRISTINE TAYLOR PRICE Tulsa, Oklahoma Glimmerglass 2026: Lieutenant Lillian Holiday in Happy End Past: Eliza Doolittle, My Fair Lady, Opera Saratoga; Soloist, Poulenc/Sondheim Cabaret, New York Festival of Song; Amalia, She Loves Me, Opera Saratoga; Adina, L’elisir d’amore, Gulfshore Opera; Sarah Brown, Guys and Dolls, Ohio Light Opera Future: Jesse, A River Runs Through It, Opera Montana
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GUEST ARTISTS SOPHIE SCHNEIDER New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Costume Designer for Robin Hood Past: Costume Designer, Sense & Sensibility, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Costume & Production Designer, The Cherry Orchard, Sketchbook Theatre; Costume & Production Designer, The Veil, FilmFrontier Studios; Costume Designer, Noah’s Flood, The Glimmerglass Festival; Assistant Costume Designer to David C. Woolard, From the Heart: the Life & Music of Dolly Parton, The Dollywood Celebrity Theater; Associate Costume designer to Dede Ayite, Parable of the Sower, Wise Reagon Arts; Associate Costume Designer to Jessica Jahn, La bohème, Spoleto Festival CHARLOTTE SEIDENSTICKER New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Hair and Makeup for Robin Hood Past: Hair & Makeup Design, The Rip Van Winkles, The Glimmerglass Festival; Hair & Makeup Supervisor, 2022 Season, 2023 Season, The Glimmerglass Festival; Assistant Hair Supervisor, Parade, Suffs, Spamalot, Broadway DEVARIO D. SIMMONS New York, New York / Los Angeles, California Glimmerglass 2026: Costume Designer for Fellow Travelers Past: Costume Designer, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Broadway; Costume Designer, The Righteous, Santa Fe Opera; Costume Designer, Table 17, Geffen Playhouse; Costume Designer, Beau: The Musical, Out of the Box Theatrics; Costume Designer, The White Chip, Manhattan Class Company; Costume Designer, Deceived, Bay Street Theater; Costume Designer, Two Trains Running, Hartford Stage GREGORY SPEARS New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Composer for Fellow Travelers Past: Composer, Sleepers Awake, Opera Philadelphia; Composer, Secrets, The Frick Collection; Composer, Fellow Travelers, Seattle Opera; Composer, The Righteous, Santa Fe Opera; Composer, Castor and Patience, Cincinnati Opera Future: Composer, Bartleby, Tucson Desert Song Festival; Composer, The Mysteries, Columbus Symphony MÁRION TALÁN DE LA ROSA Brooklyn, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Costume Designer for Happy End Past: Costume Designer, Marjorie Prime, Broadway; Costume Designer, Oratorio for Living Things, Signature Theater; Costume Designer, Trophy Boys, MCC Theater; Costume Designer, Titanic, ENCORES City Center; Costume Designer, The Connector, MCC Theater; Costume Designer, Julia Wolfe’s Her Story, Tour
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ERIC TAYLOR Washington, D.C. Glimmerglass 2026: Lt. Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly Past: Roméo, Roméo et Juliette, Palm Beach Opera; Lt. Pinkerton, Madame Butterfly, Detroit Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Utah Opera, North Carolina Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Grand Rapids Future: Don José, Carmen, North Carolina Opera; First Philistine, Samson et Dalila, Metropolitan Opera; Alfredo Germont, La traviata, Arizona Opera; Don José, Carmen, Madison Opera; The Messenger, Aida, Metropolitan Opera HOLLY TWYFORD Washington, D.C. Glimmerglass 2026: Aunt Eller in Oklahoma! Past: General Matilda B. Cartwright, Guys and Dolls, Shakespeare Theatre Company; Ensemble, Inherit the Wind, Arena Stage Future: Idomeneo: A Trojan Tale, Washington National Opera; Director, The Comedy of Errors, Folger Theatre VITA TZYKUN Odesa, Ukraine Glimmerglass 2026: Set Designer for Fellow Travelers Past: Director/Set Designer/Projections Designer, La bohème/Rent, The Atlanta Opera; Costume Designer, Fiddler On The Roof, The Alliance Theater, The Atlanta Opera; Writer/ Director/Production Designer with David Adam Moore, Taming The Lightning, Immersive Theater Installation, Arena Stage Future: Director/Production Designer, William Tell, Boston Lyric Opera; Set Designer, The (R)Evolution Of Steve Jobs, Finnish National Opera and Ballet TRAVON D. WALKER Hinesville, Georgia Glimmerglass 2026: Ferrando in Così Past: Son, Blue, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Valcour, L’Amant anonyme, Opera Philadelphia; Chevalier de la Force, Dialogues des Carmélites, Wolf Trap Opera; NextGen Recital Artist, Recital curated with Renée Fleming, Wolf Trap Opera Future: Joe, La fanciulla del West, Metropolitan Opera; Scaramuccio, Ariadne auf Naxos, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Tybalt, Roméo et Juliette, La Monnaie TOM WATSON New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Hair and Makeup for Oklahoma!, Madame Butterfly, Così, and Fellow Travelers Past: Hair and Makeup, Just In Time, Ragtime, Schmigadoon, Broadway Future: Hair and Makeup, Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare in the Park; Hair and Makeup, Rhinoceros, American Repertory Theater; Hair and Makeup, Leopoldstadt, Berkeley Repertory Theater
SARA E. WIDZER Los Angeles, California Glimmerglass 2026: Associate Director and Intimacy Director for Fellow Travelers Past: Intimacy Director, La bohème, Washington National Opera; Intimacy Director, West Side Story, La bohème, Falstaff, Ainadamar, Così fan tutte, Roméo et Juliette, Madame Butterfly, LA Opera; Intimacy Director, La traviata, San Diego Opera; Director, Into the Woods, Opera in the Ozarks; Director, Le nozze di Figaro, Opera Santa Barbara Future: Intimacy Director & Associate Director, Fellow Travelers, Austin Opera; Director, Albert Herring, Opera UCLA ROBERT WIERZEL Branford, Connecticut Glimmerglass 2026: Lighting Designer for Madame Butterfly Past: Lighting Designer, Götterdämmerung, The Atlanta Opera Future: Lighting Designer, A Walk on the Moon, Off-Broadway; Lighting Designer, Oedipus, Playmakers Repertory Theatre; Lighting Designer, Rigoletto, Pittsburgh Opera; Lighting Designer, Tosca, Detroit Opera; Lighting Designer, Jubilee, The Atlanta Opera BRIDGET S. WILLIAMS Chicago, Illinois Glimmerglass 2026: Lighting Designer for Robin Hood; Associate Lighting Designer for Così Past: Lighting Designer, Candide, DePaul Opera Theater; Lighting Designer, L’Etoile, Candide, Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater; Lighting Designer, The Falling and the Rising, Des Moines Metro Opera; Lighting Designer, American Apollo, Des Moines Metro Opera; Lighting Designer, Project Bound Dance - Smoking Meat, Steppenwolf Theatre LookOut Series Future: Lighting Designer, The Cook-Off, Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater ANITA YAVICH New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Costume Designer for Madame Butterfly Past: Costume Designer, Floyd Collins, Yellow Face, Fool for Love, Venus in Fur, Chinglish, Anna in the Tropics, Broadway; Costume Designer, The Monkey King, San Francisco Opera; Costume Designer, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Opera Australia; Costume Designer, Cyrano de Bergerac, Teatro alla Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Mask & Puppet Designer, Megalopolis, film; Puppet Designer & Costume Designer, The Sound of Music, Salzburger Marionetten Theater
MICHAEL YEARGAN Milford, Connecticut Glimmerglass 2026: Set Designer for Madame Butterfly Past: Set Designer, Rigoletto, Metropolitan Opera; Set & Costume Designer, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Set & Costume Designer, Ariadne auf Naxos, Metropolitan Opera; Set Designer, Roméo et Juliette, Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala; Set Designer, Dead Man Walking (World Premiere), A Streetcar Named Desire (World Premiere), San Francisco Opera Future: Set Designer, Der Ring des Nibelungen, San Francisco Opera SIERRA YOUNG Baltimore, Maryland Glimmerglass 2026: Fight & Intimacy Director for Oklahoma!, Madame Butterfly Past: Three-time Helen Hayes nominee for Best Choreography in a Play or Musical; Fight & Intimacy Director, West Side Story, Treemonisha, Porgy and Bess, Washington National Opera; Fight & Intimacy Director, 1776, Ford’s Theatre; Fight & Intimacy Director, Hair, Arkansas Repertory Theatre Future: Continues as Resident Violence & Intimacy Director for Baltimore Center Stage and Mosaic Theater Company JASON ZACHER Livingston, New Jersey Glimmerglass 2026: Benny in Happy End Past: Second Prize, The Lotte Lenya Competition, Kurt Weill Foundation; Un ermite, Der Freischütz, American Symphony Orchestra; Bass Soloist, Verdi Requiem, Chattanooga Symphony & Opera; Olin Blitch, Susannah, Sarasota Opera; Ensemble & Page (cover), Amahl & The Night Visitors, Lincoln Center Theater Future: First Priest, The Magic Flute (Holiday Presentation), Metropolitan Opera; Herald (cover), Otello, Metropolitan Opera FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Director for Oklahoma!; Original Production Director for Madame Butterfly Past: Artistic & General Director Emerita, The Glimmerglass Festival; Director, Guys and Dolls, Shakespeare Theatre Company Future: Continues as Artistic Director, Washington National Opera; Director, The Ring Cycle, San Francisco Opera; Director, Candide, LA Opera; Director, Show Boat, Houston Grand Opera; Director, O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky, Washington National Opera
Expanded bios can be found at www.glimmerglass.org
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MUSIC STAFF
J. BRADLEY BAKER Henderson, Texas Glimmerglass 2026: Principal Coach for Così Past: Principal Coach, Tosca, La bohème, La Calisto, The Glimmerglass Festival; Conductor, If I Were You, Maryland Opera Studio Future: Conductor, The Rape of Lucretia, Iolanta, Gianni Schicchi, Maryland Opera Studio; Conductor, Dido and Aeneas, Music On Site LYNN BAKER New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Diction Coach for Oklahoma!, Così, and Fellow Travelers Future: Continues as English Diction Coach/ Assistant Conductor, Metropolitan Opera; Continues as Director of Resident Artist Program, Berkshire Opera Festival; Continues as Adjunct Faculty, Mannes School of Music, The New School; Continues as English Diction Coach, Curtis Institute of Music; Continues as Editor for Transcriptions, International Dialects of English Archive; Continues as English Diction Coach, Opera Philadelphia KIMBERLEY-ANN BARTCZAK Victoria, Canada Glimmerglass 2026: Conductor for Robin Hood; Principal Coach for Così Past: Conductor, Odyssey, The Glimmerglass Festival; Youth Chorus Director, Tosca, The Glimmerglass Festival Future: Continues as Principal Coach, Pacific Opera Victoria; Artistic Director, Victoria Children’s Choir ANNA BETKA Palm Beach, Florida Glimmerglass 2026: Principal Coach for Madame Butterfly Past: Music Staff, La fanciulla del West, Wichita Grand Opera; Music Staff, La bohème, Les Pêcheurs des perles, Rigoletto, Palm Beach Opera Future: Music Staff, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Dallas Opera
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CHRISTOPHER DEVLIN Montréal, Canada Glimmerglass 2026: Principal Coach for Fellow Travelers Past: Principal Coach, The Little Prince, Carmen, La bohème, The Dallas Opera Future: Principal Coach, Turandot, Lohengrin, The Dallas Opera ANDREA GRANT Toronto, Canada Glimmerglass 2026: Director of the Resident Artists Program Past: Chorus Director/Coach/Répétiteur, Giulio Cesare, Candide, Street Scene, University of British Columbia; Pianist, Recital with Javier Camarena, University of British Columbia; Chorus Director/ Coach/Répétiteur, Manon, Opera West KATHERINE KOZAK Cleveland, Ohio Glimmerglass 2026: Chorus Director for Oklahoma!, Madame Butterfly, and Così Past: Head of Music, Chorus Director, and Principal Coach, Pullin Opera Studio, Arizona Opera; Chorus Master & Head Coach, Florida Grand Opera; Music Staff, Palm Beach Opera, The Dallas Opera, Opera Colorado, Central City Opera, Santa Fe Opera; Coach/Pianist, The Juilliard School, University of Miami Future: Continues as Chorus Director & Music Administrator, Detroit Opera GRANT WENAUS New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Principal Coach for Oklahoma! Future: Music Director, Mirror Visions Ensemble: Christopher Berg Retrospective Concert, Merkin Hall
RESIDENT ARTISTS
CARLOS AHRENS Orlando, Florida Glimmerglass 2026: Timothy Laughlin (cover) in Fellow Travelers; Ensemble in Oklahoma! and Così Past: Pietro Baglioni, La hija de Rappaccini, Columbus Opera; Antonin Scalia, Scalia/ Ginsburg, Charlottesville Opera; Bevins, Lincoln in the Bardo orchestral workshop, Chautauqua Opera; King of El Dorado/Baron, Candide, The Glimmerglass Festival Future: Beppe, Pagliacci, Virginia Opera; Ferrando, Così fan tutte, Queen City Opera; Pang, Turandot, Virginia Opera ERIN ALFORD Long Beach, California Glimmerglass 2026: Kate Pinkerton and Ensemble in Madame Butterfly; Aunt Eller (cover) and Ensemble in Oklahoma! Past: Neferneferuaten, Akhnaten, Mrs. Noye (cover), Noye’s Fludde, LA Opera; Romeo, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Opera Italia; Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro, Pensacola Opera; Yvonne/ Betty cover, Sunday in the Park with George, The Glimmerglass Festival; Principal Ensemble, Candide, LA Opera; Fidalma, El matrimonio secreto, Florida Grand Opera MAEVE BERRY Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Glimmerglass 2026: Principal Pianist for Vignettes: Ellis Island; Assistant Coach/Second Pianist for Fellow Travelers, Madame Butterfly, Robin Hood Past: Resident Artist Pianist, Pittsburgh Opera Future: Pianist/Coach, Butler Studio, Houston Grand Opera
DYLAN COLE New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Assistant Director and Assistant Choreographer for Oklahoma!; Assistant Director for Robin Hood Past: Director, Fellow Travelers, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Choreographer and Assistant Director, Orgy & Bess: Deep Throats and High Notes, Heartbeat Opera; Assistant Director, Sunday in the Park with George, Assistant Director, Odyssey, The Glimmerglass Festival; Director, Fellow Travelers, MUNY ETHAN CLARK DAVIS New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Ensemble in Oklahoma!, Madame Butterfly Past: Scholar, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University; Dancer, The Rake’s Progress, Dennis, Sunday in the Park with George, The Glimmerglass Festival; Ensemble, Cinderella, Syracuse Stage JUDE EMPERADO Anaheim, California Glimmerglass 2026: Ensemble in Oklahoma! and Così Past: Lewis/Pippin/Ensemble, Guys and Dolls, Redhouse Arts Center; Dance Captain and Sebastian U/S, The Little Mermaid, Mr. T and Glen Guglia U/S, The Wedding Singer, Ensemble, Hello, Dolly!, Cortland Repertory Theatre; Mungojerrie, Cats, NCCA Jean’s Playhouse; Teen Ensemble, Chess, MUNY
MEGAN BUSH Long Island, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Ensemble in Oklahoma! and Madame Butterfly Past: Amy March, Little Women, Ithaca College; Ensemble/Francine, Waitress, Hangar Theatre; Dancer and Assistant Choreographer, Dance Concert, Ithaca College
LUCY EVANS Bellingham, Washington Glimmerglass 2026: Dorabella (cover) in Così; Ensemble in Madame Butterfly Past: Grasshopper, The Cunning Little Vixen, Des Moines Metro Opera; Marie de Medici, Galileo Galilei, Rosina (cover), The Barber of Seville, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; La Ninfa/ La Messaggera, L’Orfeo, Santa Fe Opera Future: Dryade, Ariadne auf Naxos, Linetta, The Love for Three Oranges, Miss Bagotte, The Little Sweep, Opéra national du Rhin
DOUG CLEMONS Milwaukee, Wisconsin Glimmerglass 2026: Assistant Director for Fellow Travelers Past: Director, Later the Same Evening, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Director, Scalia/Ginsburg, The Florentine Opera Company; Director and Choreographer, L’enfant et les sortilèges, The Florentine Opera Company; Director, Xanadu, Skylight Music Theatre Future: Director, Pagliacci, Brew City Opera, Director/Choreographer, Ride the Cyclone, Sheboygan Theatre Company
VIVIANA AURELIA GOODWIN Tulsa, Oklahoma Glimmerglass 2026: Despina (cover) in Così; Laurey (cover) and Ensemble in Oklahoma!; Ensemble in Madame Butterfly Past: Treemonisha, Treemonisha, Clara, Porgy and Bess, Susanna, Le nozze di Figaro, Washington National Opera; Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni, Merola Opera Program Future: Litzie (cover), Lincoln in the Bardo, Metropolitan Opera; Ilia, Idomeneo, Washington National Opera; Soprano Soloist, Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven), Fredericksburg Symphony
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RESIDENT ARTISTS LUKE HARNISH Atlanta, Georgia Glimmerglass 2026: Estonian Frank/ Interrogator/Senator McCarthy in Fellow Travelers; Sharpless (cover) and Ensemble in Madame Butterfly Past: Happy, La fanciulla del West, Wichita Grand Opera; Baron Douphol, La traviata, The Atlanta Opera; Argante, Rinaldo, Pacific Northwest Opera; Sciarrone, Tosca, Nick Shadow (cover), The Rake’s Progress, The Glimmerglass Festival; Genie, Maya and the Magic Ring, Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Dick Deadeye, H.M.S. Pinafore, Nashville Opera GRACE HELDRIDGE Omaha, Nebraska Glimmerglass 2026: Kate Pinkerton (cover) and Ensemble in Madame Butterfly; Ensemble in Oklahoma! Past: Apprentice Artist, Central City Opera; Performer #2, Rappahannock County, Opera Maine; Flora Bervoix, La traviata, YsättersKajsa/Bäuerin, Nils Holgersson Wondrous Adventures, Die junge Frau/Alto Soloist, Don Giovanni/Requiem, Komische Oper Berlin Future: Artist in Residence, l’Académie de l’Opéra National de Paris RANDY HO Denver, Colorado Glimmerglass 2026: Goro in Madame Butterfly; Ensemble in Così Past: Borsa/Duca (cover), Rigoletto, Tybalt/ Romeo (cover), Roméo et Juliette, Palm Beach Opera; Count Barigoule, Cinderella, Opera Montana; Nemorino, L’elisir d’amor, Teatro Municipal de Santiago; Ernesto, Don Pasquale, Opera Saratoga Future: Nemorino, L’elisir d’amore, Pensacola Opera; Nemorino, L’elisir d’amore, Opera Orlando E.A. HOBBS New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Ensemble in Oklahoma!, Così Past: Maria Josefa, Bernarda Alba, Syracuse University; Horngold/Sailor #2, Ghost Ship, Syracuse University; Tommy Boys/Spot Conlon, Newsies, El Dorado Musical Theater; Ella, Cinderella, El Dorado Musical Theater; Choreographer, Little Women, Syracuse University; Choreographer, Addams Family, Syracuse University NICHOLAS HUFF Kenosha, Wisconsin Glimmerglass 2026: Lt. Pinkerton (cover)/ Ensemble in Madame Butterfly; Ensemble in Oklahoma! Past: Il Tinca/Un’amante, Il tabarro, Carnegie Hall; Giles Corey, The Crucible, A Messenger, Aida, Malcolm, Macbeth, Washington National Opera; Tenor Soloist, Das Lied von der Erde, The Apollo Orchestra
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SOPHIA HUNT New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Fiordiligi (cover) in Così; Ensemble in Madame Butterfly Past: Top Prize Winner, Gerda Lissner Foundation; Erste Dame, Die Zauberflöte, Second Niece, Peter Grimes, The Soprano, The Four-Note Opera, Violetta (cover), La traviata, Dutch National Opera; Mrs. Gleaton, Susannah, Wolf Trap Opera Company SAM KRAUSZ St. Louis, Missouri Glimmerglass 2026: Ferrando (cover) in Così; Ensemble in Oklahoma! and Madame Butterfly Past: Goro, Madama Butterfly, Il Messaggero, Aida, Count Belfiore, La Finta Giardiniera, Arizona Opera; Mbabane, Eswatini Vierste Jude, Salome, Des Moines Metro Opera; Apollo, Semele, Wolf Trap Opera TONGYAO LI Washington, D.C. Glimmerglass 2026: Principal Pianist, Robin Hood; Second Pianist/Assistant Coach, Oklahoma!, Così Past: Pianist/ Vocal Coach/Assistant Conductor, Treemonisha, The Little Prince, Macbeth, Washington National Opera; Pianist, Washington International Competition THANDOLWETHU MAMBA Mbabane, Eswatini Glimmerglass 2026: Potter/General Arlie/ Bartender (cover) in Fellow Travelers; Guglielmo (cover) in Così; Ensemble in Oklahoma! Past: Count Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro, Simon, Treemonisha, Washington National Opera Future: Giorgio Germont, La traviata, Washington National Opera; Soloist, Rush Hour: A Concert, Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra; Soloist, An Evening Under the Stars, Pittsburgh Festival Opera MADISON MANNING New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Ensemble in Oklahoma!; Choreographer for Così Past: Belle/Phantom/Clown, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella, Cinderella: Enchanted Edition, Syracuse Stage; Mrs. Potiphar/Ensemble, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat, Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Dancer, The Rake’s Progress, Woman/ Waitress, Sunday in the Park with George, Sally (cover), The House on Mango Street, The Glimmerglass Festival; Bernarda Alba, Bernarda Alba, Syracuse University Department of Drama Future: Principle Ensemble, Candide, LA Opera
BRIAN McCANN Freehold, New Jersey Glimmerglass 2026: Assistant Conductor for Oklahoma!, Così Past: Conducting Fellow, Spoleto Festival; Young Artist Pianist- Coach, Merola Opera Program; Assistant Program Director, Studio Artist Program, Sarasota Opera NOAH MOND Stony Brook, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Sheriff in Robin Hood; The Bonze (cover) in Madame Butterfly; Ensemble in Così Past: 3rd Place Southeast Regional Winner/ TN District Winner, Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition; Fiorello/Don Basilio (cover), Il barbiere di Siviglia, Nashville Opera; Solo Voice/ Father Trulove (cover), The Rake’s Progress, Des Moines Metro Opera; Arkel, Pelléas et Mélisande, Opera Baltimore Future: Bonze, Die Nachtigall, Oper Köln; King Melchior, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Fort Worth Opera
ERIK NORDSTROM Saint Paul, Minnesota Glimmerglass 2026: Jud in Oklahoma!; Tommy McIntrye/Hawkins Fuller (cover) in Fellow Travelers Past: Boatman/Charles, Sunday in the Park with George, The Glimmerglass Festival; Schaunard, La bohème, Pittsburgh Opera; Hawkins Fuller, Fellow Travelers, Pittsburgh Opera; The Ferryman, Curlew River, Tyson, Time to Act, Pittsburgh Opera Future: Marullo, Rigoletto, Ormonte, Partenope, Mercutio, Roméo et Juliette, Pittsburgh Opera JOSE OLIVARES Fort Worth, Texas Glimmerglass 2026: Jud (cover)/Ensemble in Oklahoma!; Potter’s Assistant/ Bookseller/ Technician/French Priest/Party Guest in Fellow Travelers Past: Theseus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Ludovic, La Belle et la Bête, Yakuside, Madama Butterfly, Fort Worth Opera Future: Sergeant, The Pirates of Penzance, Dottore Grenvil, La traviata, Arizona Opera
KATE MORTON Tahlequah, Oklahoma Glimmerglass 2026: Ado Annie in Oklahoma!; Ensemble in Madame Butterfly Past: Alley/Dietrich Family Memorial Award, Opera Index; Loksi’, Loksi’ Shaali’, Opera America, Wilmington Concert Opera; Ilona Ritter, She Loves Me, Opera Saratoga; Sœur Mathilde, Dialogues des Carmelites, L’Ecureuil and La Chatte, L’enfant et les Sortilèges, Soloist, Spirit in Sound, The Juilliard School
JOSEPH PARK Seoul, South Korea Glimmerglass 2026: Yamadori/Ensemble in Madame Butterfly; Don Aflonso (cover) in Così Past: Prince Yamadori, Madame Butterfly, Fort Worth Opera; Don Basilio, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Park City Opera; Daland (cover), Der fliegende Holländer, Des Moines Metro Opera; Bass Soloist, Messiah, Chattanooga Symphony; Colline, La bohème, Grand Rapids Opera; Angelotti, Tosca, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Future: Masetto, Don Giovanni, San Jose Opera
PETER MURPHY Lowell, Massachusetts Glimmerglass 2026: Will Parker in Oklahoma!; Ensemble in Madame Butterfly Past: Snowboy, West Side Story, Washington National Opera; Dance Captain/Ensemble, The Rake’s Progress, Brighella, Pagliacci, The Glimmerglass Festival; Young Scrooge, A Christmas Carol, Joey Primo, Rock of Ages, The Palace Theatres; Jet Swing, West Side Story, LA Opera Future: Ensemble, Candide, LA Opera
LUKE POEPPEL New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Assistant Conductor in Madame Butterfly, Fellow Travelers Past: Guest Conductor, Grossman Ensemble; Assistant Conductor, New York Philharmonic; Assistant Conductor, Hänsel und Gretel, The Juilliard School; Assistant Conductor, Andrea Chénier, Opera Delaware Future: Cover Conductor, The Creation, Lyric Opera of Chicago; Guest Conductor, Kansas City Symphony
WOOSIK NAM Seoul, South Korea Glimmerglass 2026: The Bonze in Madame Butterfly; Potter’s Assistant /Bookseller / Technician/ French Priest/Party Guest (cover) in Fellow Travelers Past: Don Alfonso, Così fan tutte, Sarastro, Die Zauberflöte, Sookmyung Women’s University; Osmin, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Seoul National University Opera; Falstaff (cover), Falstaff, The Juilliard School
WILLIAM RASKIN Chicago, Illinois Glimmerglass 2026: Jimmy in Happy End; Will Parker (cover)/Ensemble in Oklahoma!; Ensemble in Così Past: Osmin/Troupe Artist, The Billy Goats Gruff, Des Moines Metro Opera; Soloist/Guest Artist, Messiah, Zephyr Symphony; John Watson/Guest Artist, 221B: A Sherlock Holmes Opera, University of Northern Colorado; Casanova, The House on Mango Street, The Glimmerglass Festival; Official (cover)/Apprentice Artist, Il barbiere di Siviglia, The Sarasota Opera House; Giuseppe Palmieri, The Gondoliers, Armand Brissard, The Count of Luxembourg, Ohio Light Opera
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RESIDENT ARTISTS JAELYNN RICKS New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Ensemble in Oklahoma!, Così Past: Past: B.F. A ., Musical Theatre, Syracuse University; Annie Easley, Commanding Space, Syracuse Stage; The Mare, The House of Bernarda Alba, Syracuse University Department of Drama; Performing Intern, Cortland Repertory Theater KAILEIGH RIESS New York, New York Glimmerglass 2026: Ensemble in Oklahoma!; Miss Lightfoot/Mary Johnson (cover) in Fellow Travelers Past: Lys Symonette Award Winner and repeat Finalist at Lotte Lenya Competition; Dot/Marie (cover), Sunday in the Park with George, The Glimmerglass Festival; Rosina, The Barber of the Cape, Opera in the Pines; Nannetta, Falstaff, Pacific Northwest Opera; Violetta, La traviata, Virginia Opera; Ensemble Soprano, What to Wear, Beth Morrison Projects: PROTOTYPE Festival Future: Miss Lightfoot, Fellow Travelers, Austin Opera LAURA SANTAMARIA West Palm Beach, Florida Glimmerglass 2026: Lucy in Fellow Travelers; Ensemble in Madame Butterfly Past: Richard Gaddes Career Award, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Peaseblossom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Norina (cover), Don Pasquale, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Marie, The Daughter of the Regiment Workshop and Tour, Boston Lyric Opera; Fellow, Ravinia Steans Institute Future: Papagena, The Magic Flute – Holiday Presentation, Metropolitan Opera; Soprano Soloist, Poulenc’s Gloria, Cambridge Symphony Orchestra GREGORY SLISKOVICH Nashville, Tennessee Glimmerglass 2026: Ali Hakim in Oklahoma!; Goro (cover)/Ensemble in Madame Butterfly Past: Tanzmeister/Brighella, Ariadne auf Naxos, Pacific Northwest Opera; Counselor, St. John the Baptist, Borsa, Rigoletto, IN Series; Dr. Blind, Die Fledermaus, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Normano/Arturo, Lucia di Lammermoor, Nashville Opera Future: Joe/Criminal/Jonathan, Fortuna the Time Bender and The Schoolgirls of Doom, Nashville Opera
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ALEX SMITH Kalamazoo, Michigan Glimmerglass 2026: Registrar in Madame Butterfly; Ensemble in Così; Estonian Frank/ Interrogator/Senator McCarthy (cover) in Fellow Travelers Past: Prince Yamadori, Madama Butterfly, Ping, Turandot, Fiorello, The Barber of Seville, Lyric Opera of Kansas City; The Sergeant of Police, The Pirates of Penzance, Le Dancaïre, Carmen, Charlottesville Opera SAMANTHA SOSA Washington, D.C. Glimmerglass 2026: Ensemble in Oklahoma!, Così; Miss Lightfoot (cover) in Fellow Travelers Past: Apprentice Artist, Sarasota Opera; Susanna, Le Nozze di Figaro, Music on Site; Oksana, Zaporozhets za Dunayem, Loudon Lyric Opera; Lucy, The House on Mango Street, The Glimmerglass Festival Future: Aparecida, Macabéa, Columbia University; Belinda, The Farolitos of Christmas, Opera Southwest; Recital, Montpelier Arts Center NIA SPAULDING Berkeley, California Glimmerglass 2026: Ensemble in Madame Butterfly and Così; Lucy (cover) in Fellow Travelers Past: Encouragement Award, Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition; Arminda, La finta Giardiniera, Noémie, Cendrillon, Soprano Soloist, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, University of Cincinnati JORDAN SPENA Claremont, California Glimmerglass 2026: Ali Hakim (cover)/ Ensemble in Oklahoma!; Ensemble in Madame Butterfly Past: Long John Silver, Treasure Island, Judge Turpin, Sweeney Todd, Miss Adelaide U/S, Guys & Dolls, Texas State University SABLE STROUT Portland, Maine Glimmerglass 2026: Assistant Director for Così Past: Director, A Masked Ball, Opera in the Pines; Director, La traviata, Kentucky Opera; Assistant Director, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Central City Opera
LAUREN TOREY Oakville, Ontario Glimmerglass 2026: Scarlet in Robin Hood; MaryJane in Happy End; Ado Annie (cover)/ Ensemble in Oklahoma!; Ensemble in Così Past: Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro, Mrs. Grose (cover), Turn of the Screw, The Juilliard School; Chana, The Dybbuks, Workshop; Ensemble, The Rake’s Progress, The Glimmerglass Festival Future: Generational Voices Member, Denyce Graves Foundation BEN WALLACE Toronto, Ontario Glimmerglass 2026: Curly (cover)/Ensemble in Oklahoma!; Tommy McIntyre (cover) in Fellow Travelers Past: Figaro, The Barber of Seville (Ensemble Studio Performance), Paris, Roméo et Juliette, Canadian Opera Company; Top, The Tender Land, Toronto City Opera; Guglielmo, Così fan tutte, University of Toronto Opera Future: Harlekin, Ariadne auf Naxos, Belcore (cover), The Elixir of Love, Guglielmo (cover), Così fan tutte, Canadian Opera Company
XIAO XIAO Lansing, Michigan Glimmerglass 2026: Suki (cover)/Ensemble in Madame Butterfly; Ensemble in Così Past: Snake/Sheep, The Big Swim, Asia Society Texas Center; Ma Joad, The Grapes of Wrath, Angelina, La Cenerentola, Michigan State University Opera; Fury(Debut)/Linfea/Destino cover, La Calisto, The Glimmerglass Festival Future: Snake/Sheep, The Big Swim; Houston Grand Opera; Lady in Waiting, Macbeth, Dorabella (cover), Così fan tutte, Opera Colorado YICHEN XUE Anshan, Liaoning, China Glimmerglass 2026: Senator Potter/ General Airlie/Bartender in Fellow Travelers; Commissioner/ Yamadori (cover) in Madame Butterfly Past: Dandini, La Cenerentola, Nardo, La finta giardiniera, Schaunard, La bohème, Arizona Opera; Imperial Commissioner/Prince Yamadori, Madama Butterfly, Opera Grand Rapids; Marcello, La bohème, Aspen Music Festival; Ponchel(cover), Silent Night, The Wolf Trap Opera Company Future: Mandarin, Turandot, Virginia Opera
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EDWARD STURM Wichita, Kansas Glimmerglass 2026: Director for Vignettes: Ellis Island; Assistant Director for Madame Butterfly Past: Director, The Eleanors, Boston University; Director, CCO in Concert: Opera’s Greatest Hits, Central City Opera; Assistant Director, Complications in Sue, Assistant Director, Sleepers Awake, Opera Philadelphia; Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts Future: Director, Sweeney Todd, Music Theatre Wichita Academy; Assistant Director, Let ‘Em Eat Cake, Opera Philadelphia
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ORCHESTRA
VIOLIN
FLUTE
TRUMPET
Ruotao Mao, Concertmaster Li jia Phang, Associate Concertmaster Mi altin Zhezha, Assistant Concertmaster Je remiah Blacklow, Principal Second Michael Cleveland Elizabeth Silver* Ubaldo Valli Raymond Zoeckler Ann-Marie B. Schwartz Sasha Margolis Esther McMahon Benjamin Hart Fritz Victor Krakowski Victoria Stewart* Leona Nadj* Robyn Quinnett Lu Friedman
Julia Pyke, Principal Linda Greene Xue Su
Jerry Bryant, Principal Ben Aldridge Wayne J. du Maine
VIOLA Katrina Smith, Principal Megan Newman Dyer Christine Ims Dee Dee Fancher* Sandra VandeGeijn Christine Orio
CELLO Janet Nepkie, Principal Ruth Berry Susan Ruzow Debronsky Benjamin Whittenburg* Lucas Button S. Shade Zajac
BASS
David Irvin, Principal Jon Pascolini
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PICCOLO
TROMBONE
Julia Pyke Xue Su
Greg Spiridopoulos, Principal Guangwei Fan
OBOE
BASS TROMBONE
Eileen Whalen, Principal Nancy Dimock Karen Hosmer
Frank Meredith
ENGLISH HORN Eileen Whalen Nancy Dimock
TUBA David Saltzman, Principal
CIMBASSO David Saltzman
CLARINET
TIMPANI
Pascal Archer, Principal Phillip Solomon* KeriAnn DiBari- Oberle Colby Bond
Matthew Kibort, Principal
PERCUSSION
BASS CLARINET
Matthew McClung, Principal Jeff Grubbs William Manley
Pascal Archer KeriAnn DiBari- Oberle
HARP
BASSOON Spencer F. Phillips, Principal* Mark Timmerman, Acting Principal Christin Schillinger
FRENCH HORN Michael Bellofatto, Principal Joshua Michal Gabriel Kovach Aaron Brask* Alexander Shuhan
André Tarantiles, Principal
LUTE/GUITAR Michael Leopold, Principal
KEYBOARD Christopher Devlin, Principal, Fellow Travelers Kimberley-Ann Bartczak, Principal, Così * Musician on Leave
COMMUNITY PERFORMERS
TED BRACKETT Hamilton, New York
MARY GRACE C. PENACHOS-CARENTZ New York, New York
WADE CHEN Manlius, New York
DANNIELLA RIVERA-LITZ Sauquoit, New York
MACKENZIE COLBY Westford, New York
ELIZABETH SHAVER Oneida, New York
MAYA LACOPPOLA Palatine Bridge, New York
YING WU Zhejiang, China
MARY FRANCES MILLER Niskayuna, New York
PETER YIP Westerlo, New York
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YOUTH PERFORMERS
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ARIANNE AJAKH Cooperstown, New York
YING CHEN Oneonta, New York
CATE SPEED LEINHART Fly Creek, New York
FRANCESCA ANDERSON Cobleskill, New York
BELLA COLLIS Whitesboro, New York
HAYDEN LEMMON Richfield Springs, New York
CELIA BEGIN Cooperstown, New York
RUBY COTTON Cooperstown, New York
YUAN LIN Utica, New York
MADDOX BENNETT Fort Plain, New York
CORDELIA DZIUBAN Waterville, New York
OWEN HOLSONBAKE LOWE New York, New York
NEPTUNE BURGHER Oneonta, New York
TOBIAS FREDERICKSON Jefferson, New York Boston, Massachusetts
PRIOR PARKER Springfield Center, New York
LEO BURR Schenevus, New York
KIAN GRADY Cooperstown, New York
GIOVANNI PRIOLA Mohawk, New York
NADIA BUTTERMAN Oneonta, New York
ETIENNE LAVALLEE New Hartford, New York
ANAIS SUMMERS ROBBINS Austin, Texas
ETHAN CHEN Manlius, New York
EVA LAVALLEE New Hartford, New York
MYLES ROUGGLY Oneonta, New York
VICTOR A . VASILEV Camillus, New York
CARTER WHITEMAN Cooperstown, New York
LILY TOLBERT Worcester, New York
ELEANOR WALKER Cooperstown, New York
JACOB WISNIEWSKI Richfield Springs, New York
LEVI TRACY Cooperstown, New York
PIPPA WERKING-YIP Westerlo, New York
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ELLA SWIFT Cooperstown, New York
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ADMINISTRATION AND PRODUCTION Artistic & General Director Rob Ainsley Managing Director Caleb Wertenbaker Music Director Joseph Colaneri Artistic Associate/ Dramaturg Kelley Rourke Artistic Associate/ Head of Stage Movement & Choreography Eric Sean Fogel Artistic Advisor Eric Owens Director of Artistic Administration Lauren Bailey Director of Communications Kira DeLanoy Director of Development Lyndsay Werking-Yip Director of Finance Fred Fall Director of Operations Christian C. Shaefer Director of Production Abby Rodd Director of the Resident Artists Program Andrea Grant Head of Music Christopher Devlin
ADMINISTRATION/OPERATIONS Office and Lease Manager Dianne Ciano Human Resources & Safety Manager Allison Ray Human Resources Administrative Assistant Rose Wheeldon Safety Staff Jackie Hunter Safety Coordinator David Monahan Safety Apprentice Samantha Koury General Administration Apprentice Ashlynn Long Operations Coordinator Seth Rodivich Company Administration Support Staff Maeve Chapman
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Operations Management Apprentice Ella Skolnicki Maintenance and Parking Supervisor Lizzy Mott Hospitality Manager Sarah Mancuso
Orchestra Personnel Manager Jerry Byrant Scheduling Manager Crystal Smith Piano Technician Brian Hubbell
EDI Coordinator Shira Small- Cangialosi
Artistic Administration Apprentices Livie Johnston Alex Burijon
Patron Services Jos Shakya
Music Library Apprentice Amelia Johnson
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Music Operations Apprentices Julia Dudek Sam Lusian
Information Technology Manager Zachariah O’Connor Information Technology Apprentice Athena Meighan
FINANCE Accounting Manager Laura Pierson
COMMUNICATIONS Advertising, Business, & Group Relations Partner Rebecca Gill Digital Communications Manager Lisa Lawrence
Accounting Associate Joyce Henion
Communications Apprentices Raya Denise Franklin Augusta Nafziger
Auditors Gr ossman St. Amour CPAs, PLLC
Gift Shop Manager Adam Jackson
Legal Counsel Wh iteman Osterman & Hanna LLP
DEVELOPMENT Development Officer & Operations Manager Mark Conchie Executive Assistant and Board Liaison Caleb Grochalski Special & Community Event Coordinator Sean Sansevere Development Associate Kathy Buck Research & Stewardship Assistant David Alan Stephens Stewardship Coordinator JL Marlor Development Apprentices Elisa Gauntner Sophia Keohane
ARTISTIC ADMINISTRATION Music Operations Director Emmet Sellars Artistic Operations Supervisor Jay E. Condon Music Librarian William Manley
Gift Shop Associate TBD Graphic Design Emily Falco Haeg Design Photography Brent DeLanoy/Kickstand Photography In-House Videography Kayleen Bertrand Stage Production Videography Tim Grady Harry McFann Carrington Spires Marketing Consulting Neverdark Consulting
COMPANY MANAGEMENT Company Manager Jesse Goldfinger Assistant Company Manager Naomi R. Jadotte Company Management Supervisors Mel Ottaviano James Bastone Company Management Apprentices Rebekah Askey Reagan Black Amy Fischer Max Monahan Marco Zavala Housekeepers Chelsea Cummings Jessie LaBudde Hope Lowry Allison Slachta Logan Young
FACILITIES Facilities Supervisor Leon Roseboom Facilities Staff Jason Neighbour Chris Salamone Steven Schropp George Tamliani
THEATER House Manager Shannon Migliori Front of House Apprentice Grace Henderson
AUDIO/VIDEO A/V Coordinator Joel T. Morain A/V Engineer Emily Murray
Website Design GameFlow Interactive
A/V Staff Rylynn Coble Newt Schottelkotte
BOX OFFICE
A/V Apprentices Oliver Helzer Genevieve Perry
Box Office Manager Liz Diamond Box Office Supervisor Gianna Evans Box Office Staff Sophie David Box Office Apprentice Austin Mathews
COSTUMES Costume Director Lynne Hinman Costume Floor Manager Jess Gersz Assistant Costume Floor Manager Violet Clemons Costume Administrator Nikolya Sereda Costume Shopper Erinn Grendahl
Drapers Moose Gavin Jacqui Pomeranski Kathryn Rauch Connor Sullivan Eileen Thoma Merritt Tilson Athene Wright First Hands Vanessa Eve Buck Gray Covert Moose Gavin Shirley Joo Pearl “Mo” Modine Bethany Sassen Lupé Vázquez Stitchers Elise Fitzsimmons Kylee Galarneau Savannah Richey Rigo Sandoval Sophie Shahan Lupé Vázquez Stitcher Apprentices Lily Drennon Imogen Jeffords Bailey Taylor Daile Whitehead Costume Administration Apprentice Paxton Free
COSTUME CRAFTS Crafts Manager Makenzie Vaughan Assistant Crafts Managers Will V Galarneau Allie Hildebran Crafts Artisans Wyatt Kim Hunter Riley Lypen
Assistant Lighting Designer Cosi Caroline Nowak Assistant Lighting Designer Fellow Travelers Isaak E. Olson Costume Design Apprentice Sabrina Yager Scenic Design Apprentice Yanyi Liu
DRAMATURGY/TITLES Titles Supervisor & Assistant Dramaturg Nick Richardson Dramaturgy/Titles Apprentice Kevin Harris
ELECTRICS Production Electrician Sammy Jelinek Assistant Production Electricians Kai Goff Wil Martin Sophie Smyczek Lighting Programmer Liam Corley Electricians Ethan Brentlinger Diego Caso Louis Lothan Robert Meredith Gemma Tait Electrics Apprentices Eleanor McCalpin Griffin Moore Stone Roberts
PAINTS
STAGE MANAGEMENT
Charge Scenic Artist Sasha Glinski
Production Stage Manager Dustin Z West
Assistant Scenic Charge Artist Rowan Wren Fitzpatrick
Stage Managers Brian August Tess Naval Kathy Stakenas
Scenic Artist Dani Ranisate Scenic Art Apprentices Analise Banko Danielle Pecchioli
PRODUCTION ADMIN Production Manager & Glimmerglass Apprenticeship Program Director Wyatt Nyman Production Administrator Natalie Oneill Thomas Production Administration Apprentice Emily Doppée
Stage Operations Fly Captain Andrew M. Boone
Assistant Properties Manager Alison Spangenberg
Stage Operations Prop Staff Raquel Christiansen Hallel Jackson
Head Properties Artisan Jacob Ian Rodriguez Properties Artisans Anna Camerer Cameron Carcasson Max Humphrey Properties Apprentice Inez Montgomery Jesse Patrello
SCENERY Technical Director Ross Rundell
DESIGN
Hair & Makeup Staff Artists Corinne Krasner Eryn Mychael
Assistant Technical Director of Rigging Peyton West
Hair & Makeup Apprentices Ella Bowcut Megan Janger
Associate Technical Director of Scenery Kyle Ludwig
Assistant Costume Designer Cosi Elizabeth Clark Assistant Costume Designer Fellow Travelers Kitty Cassetti Assistant Costume Designer Robin Hood Hanh Rioux Assistant Lighting Designer Oklahoma! Aidan McLeod Assistant Lighting Designer Madam Butterfly Brandon Washington
Lighting Director Bridget S. Williams Lighting Supervisors Trevor Cushman Jasmine Moore Lighting Supervision Apprentice Alex Elko
Assistant Technical Director of Stage Operations Matthew Henry Kirby-Smith
PROPS
HAIR & MAKEUP
LIGHTING
STAGE OPERATIONS
Properties Manager Seth Tyler Black
Hair & Makeup Supervisor Charlotte Seidensticker
Assistant Costume Designer Madam Butterfly Risa Ando
Stage Management Apprentices Serena Feng Juno Tejchman
Assistant Stage Operations Managers Emily Hanson Sandi McDonald
Crafts Apprentices Hannah Goldberg Simon Travis
Assistant Costume Designer Oklahoma! Camille Charara
Assistant Stage Managers Nicholas Carlstrom Julia Lank Ivy Lariviere Itzel Paola Martinez
Head Scenic Carpenter Nick Sheriff Scenic Carpenters Levi Leca Thomas Ray Jacob Ian Rodriguez Luci Tabacjar Scenic Carpentry Shop Hands Jared Hoshaw Sandi McDonald Steven Schropp Alex Tompkins
Stage Operations Staff Spencer Rodriguez James David Maxim Kyrie Páez Stage Operations Apprentices Eymad Arman Sydney Brakeley Carter Defibaugh Jacen Dock Refilwe Kekana Baker Ledford
WARDROBE Wardrobe Manager Marissa Leigh Thompson Assistant Wardrobe Managers Savannah Flower Lucy Pizzicarola Wardrobe Staff Kelsey Harms Leah Moore Kacey Painter Julia Schillaci Wardrobe Apprentices Rebecca Helsdon Evelyn House Mazie Wakefield
Scenic Carpentry Apprentice Lewis Dracobly-Helsel Technical Direction Apprentice Robert Gyurko
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THE GUILD OF GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL
The Glimmerglass Guild has provided volunteer support for the Festival for nearly 50 years. With over 200 members, the Guild provides significant financial support through fundraising events, hospitality and community engagement services, and educational programs for the community, with emphasis on engaging local students. This commitment allows the Festival to devote more time and resources to its artistic goals. The Guild membership and its Board accrued over 5,000 volunteer hours in 2025, and the designation of a 501c3 status facilitates a collaborative relationship with the Festival to support its identified needs, including annual support of the Glimmerglass Apprenticeship Program through sponsorship of an Apprentice. Through its many programs and initiatives, the Guild inspires conversations about opera and musical theater and encourages appreciation of these art forms. The presence of the Guild in every aspect of the Festival’s season has become an expectation, and the membership participation is vital and much appreciated. The highlight for all is the many interactions we have with seasonal staff, from technicians to Resident Artists. As we celebrate this Festival season, we also celebrate the talent and commitment of our members who have dedicated so much of themselves throughout the years. We hope you will consider joining the Guild to help carry on the legacy of The Glimmerglass Festival. Joining the Guild entitles you to receive information about the upcoming events including educational programs, fundraisers, and the final event of the season, the annual Guild Gala at The Otesaga Resort Hotel on August 10th, 2026. 64
Save the Date! Wine Tasting: Monday, July 20, 2026 Guild Gala: Monday, August 10, 2026
More information is available at glimmerglassguild.org.
2026 FESTIVAL GUILD 2026 FESTIVAL GUILD OFFICERS
La ura Tansey Wetzel & Barbara Lacorte, Co-Presidents Abby Kreh Gibson, Vice President Ann Mei, Secretary John Anagnost, Treasurer
GUILD MEMBERS
Violet Ackas Mr. Ernest E. Adams, Jr. Carl Adkins and Dianne Balfour Rob Ainsley and Micah Waldstein Kathryn C. Allen John Anagnost and Rita Emanuel Jo hn T. Andrews, Jr. and Elizabeth K. Lambert Marco Anichini Walter and Patti Ashley Mary Sheila Ayres Gail Baden James E. Ballowe Jr. Dr. Dennis Banks Jennie Barlow Jim and Nancy Barton Susan Beames Ruth Beardsley and Tom Sansone Ruth Bennett Donna Bordinger Jennifer Brickley Mark Bunce Mary Ellen Calta Maria Camargo Helen Campbell Whitney Campbell Paula Carius Caralee Carney and Maureen Kuhn Patricia Carrier Cindy Chermak Lauren Clark Pamela E. S. Clarke Susan Clarke Patrick Cooney James Covey and James Zabawa Joanne Crum Judith Curry Deborah and James Dalton Mary Lou D’Avino Dr. James C. Dawson Barbara and Richard Decker Joan Desens and Simon Carr-Ellison Vincent and Mary Kay Devita Karin and Hans de Waal Nicole and Gaylord Dillingham Susan Drake Martha Duke Leila Durkin Fynnette Eaton and James E. Miller Wynn Egginton Robert and Nancy Einreinhofer Kathleen and Dale Eisele Priscilla Elliot Gerald Jerry Evans Elizabeth Eveillard Frank Farmer and Frank Kolbert Donna and David Farquhar Rita Fenstemacher Penelope Ferguson Barbara and Jim Fischer David M. Frankford Allen and Judith Brick Freedman Martha Frey Abby Kreh Gibson
Anda Stelian and Douglas Glucroft William and Cynthia Goertemoeller Jeanne Grampp Matthew Gregory Kimberly Greiner Judy Grin Riane Gruss Ursula and Charles ‘Chuck’ Hage Carla Hall Charlotte Hall Patricia and Robert Hanft Valerie Hanlon Melinda Hardin Mona Harris Stephen Harrison Elizabeth Harvey Jeanne and Jim Havener Christine Heller Nancy Herman Allison and Keyes Hill-Edgar Elizabeth Humes Susan J. Huxtable Thomas A . and Gail Jacobsen Fredric Jagels Kathleen and Rick Jagels Connie and Mike Jastremski Kim Jastremski Helen Jessup Drs. Celeste Johns and Chris Kjolhede Emily Johnson and Vijay Ramachandran Jodie Johnson Kathleen and Bruce Johnson Sally Jones Susan and C.R. Jones Marjorie Turrell Julian Stephen Kalista Robert Kent Marion S. King Rhonda and Stanley King Lisa Kressbach Mary Margaret Kuhn Barbara LaCorte Cherilyn Lacy Renee LaFond and Nathaniel Fassett Pamela Lea Sandra Ledda Constance Leinhart Elizabeth R. Lemieux, Ph.D. Joan Leventhal Katharine Lloyd Kathleen Lloyd Linda Lofrumento Andrea Lyons Doris Fischer Malesardi and Robert Malesardi Shelley Marcus William McColl Millie and David McCoy Dr. Bertine and Patrick McKenna Jeanne McNaughton Sage Mehta and Michael Robinson Ann Mei Mary-Jo Merk Esther Milsted and Mark Luis Villamar Richard Monroe Carolyn Mook Molly Mooney Tom Morgan and Erna Morgan McReynolds Paula Mosher Marion Mossman Vesna Moynihan Barbara Mulhern Robert Nelson and Van Broughton Ramsey
Elizabeth Novak M. Anne O’Connell Winifred Olsen Laura Palada Charles E. Pannaci Ms. Vanessa Parisi Timothy and Barbara Pedley Dorothy Phillips Corinne Plummer Janet Potter Lou Priem Donald and Catherine Raddatz Thomas Ragan Jerry and Marisabel Raymond Richard Redmond Elsie and Thom Rhodes Angela Richards Denise Richardson Michele Richtsmeier Caroline Romans Christine Rossi Sharon Roy Sean Sansevere Margaret Kiss Santos Howard Schaffer Douglas Schoppert Shirley and Keith Schue Ann Marie Schwartz Janet Scrafford Richard G. and Pamela Scurry Michael Sekus and Bianca Russo Florence Selin László R. Seress Susan Shwartz Heidi Siegfried Mary Maia Silber Thomas Simpson Mark Sisk Lona Smith Patsy Smith Elizabeth Snyder Ms. Katherine Snyder David and Cynthia Staley Carol Steigelman Barbara Stephenson Sarah Stewart Karen Streck Suzanne Summers Tara Sumner and Ted Ford Elizabeth Susman Richard Tarrant Amy Tompkins Lucy Townsend Ellen and Robert Uffen Paul and Lizabeth Uhrig Mindy Utay Debra Valentine Mary Velez and Glen Noto Janet Vinyard Ellen Waldstein Sydney Waller John Webb and Nelson Mondaca Christine Weiss Chris Welch Lyndsay Werking-Yip Laura and Todd Wetzel Mary Anne Whelan Patricia Wiley and Wendy Miller Christine Witter Michael Young Faith E. Gay and Francesca Zambello Doug and Cheryl Zamelis Drs. Jerel and Amy Zoltick
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The Entr’acte Box Available exclusively by advance reservation, The Entr’acte Box features a selection of six handcrafted French pâtisserie treats paired with a bottle of wine. Prepared in advance and reserved in your name, your box will be available for pickup during intermission, allowing you to enjoy a relaxed and elegant experience between acts. INCLUDES Six French pâtisserie selections One bottle of wine Reserved intermission pickup
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Reserve your Entr’acte Box at the Marketplace before any performance $50.00/box
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VOLUNTEER USHERS Kay Additon Debra Araniti Rosalina Arnot Carol Ann Bailey Steve Berman Mark Bostick Amy Bressett Mary Ellen Calta Alison Calvagno Gerianne Carillo Brad Cassiday Barbara Chamberlain Carol Ann Cook Michael Cooper Laura Cooper Debra Creedon Margaret Croft Sharon Davie Edith Dayton Patricia DeLorenzo Joyce Dixon Louise Doubleday Meredith Doubleday Martha Duke Kathleen Eisele David Farquhar Donna Farquhar Mary Fedorko
Lane Franz Jane Grastorf Matt Gregory Vincent Guerra Marie Guerra Schatzi Hall Patti Herrmann Lori Higgins Glenda Hoffmann Patricia Jensen Clyde Jones Rhonda King Doris Kirk Stephen Klingaman Barbara LaCorte Nancy Lee Sunny Leinhart Adrienne Lentini Marguerite Jean Lilja Linda Mayou Janet McCarty Audrey McNally Ann Mei Debra Ann Miller Jamey Minich Robert Mix Mane Mkhitaryan Roxanne Murray
Maureen Murray Flavia Musto Marianne Romano Noel Romeo Christine Rudecoff Jean Schifano Julia A Scranton Lauri Selin Florence Selin Caleb Shadeslayer Kathy Shimberg Ann Skinner Maggie Solomczak Judy Stein Anita Sterns Jacqueline Tharp Janet Vinyard Donald Wagner Geraldine (Geri) Wagner Kathy Walsh Connie Walters Linda Watkins Marguerite Webster Margaret Wehrerm Patricia Weyland Pam Wightman Nich Williams Cheryl Zamelis
Volunteer Usher list as of June 15, 2026
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IN REMEMBRANCE MARK McCULLOUGH Mark McCullough’s work as a theatrical lighting designer has been seen at the world’s greatest opera houses, as well as on and off-Broadway. He had a decades-long relationship with The Glimmerglass Festival, where he began as an assistant to Robert Wierzel in 1992 and went on to design lighting for more than 30 operas and musicals. Mark is remembered for his curiosity, creativity, humor, and kindness. Whether sitting behind the tech table or sweating over a lakeside grill, Mark was devoted to his colleagues, and relentless in his pursuit of excellence. A 2001 production of The Queen of Spades at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden marked the beginning of a more than 20-year collaborative relationship with director Francesca Zambello, with whom Mark went on to create more than 30 productions, many with frequent collaborators Peter J. Davison and Eric Sean Fogel. Many of the productions this team developed for Glimmerglass — including Porgy and Bess, La traviata, West Side Story, and The Sound of Music — continue to travel to opera houses across the country and around the world. Mark also worked extensively as a lighting designer for dance. Early in his career, while assisting at Ballet Met, he met and fell in love with dancer Theresa Carney, whom he married in 1992. The family eventually grew to include children Matthew and Hope, who were Mark’s greatest pride and joy, and they spent many summers together exploring Cooperstown. Mark, a long-distance runner and biker, loved the outdoors and traveled with his family around the globe. He also treasured his time at home in Charlottesville, where he devoted himself to home improvements large and small, creating a haven of extraordinary warmth and uncompromising design.
ERNA MORGAN McREYNOLDS Erna Morgan McReynolds was a highly respected and beloved community volunteer when Glimmerglass had the good fortune of recruiting her to join the Festival’s Board in 2017. She became an invaluable trustee over the subsequent seven years—leading the Development and Nominating Committees, serving as Board Secretary from 2019-2023, as Vice Chair in 2024, and as a vital contributor to governance decisions. Her unanticipated passing last September left a void throughout the community and within the Festival. Erna brought her skills and experiences from a distinguished career in national broadcast journalism and as a managing director for Morgan Stanley wealth management to her role as a Glimmerglass Festival Trustee, as well as to her service on the boards of the Catskill Symphony, Hartwick College, Fenimore Art Museum and with numerous other charities and causes such as
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Bassett Healthcare, Franklin Stage, and Helios Care. She had the uncanny talent of being able to blend the practical with the creative during Board deliberations about budgets or the endowment, always cheering on and carving paths for artistic excellence and innovation alongside balanced budgets. Glimmerglass Artistic & General Director Rob Ainsley first met Erna during the interview process for his position in 2021. “I was immediately fascinated and thoroughly enjoyed working with her as a Trustee and personal advisor over the next years. Her sudden loss left a giant hole for the whole region, such was the reach of her philanthropy and personality. She is greatly missed.” As a self-made success story, Erna strongly believed in the principle of “giving back,” and her generosity — financially, through her volunteerism, and can-do spirit — was an inspiration and gift to all who knew her and benefited from her warmth, guidance, and leadership. Glimmerglass will forever be enriched by having had her among our friends and supporters.
WILLIAM OLIVER The Glimmerglass Festival lost a dear friend and colleague, Bill Oliver, who peacefully passed away in Cooperstown on March 1, at the age of 84 following a lengthy illness. Bill, and his partner of 64 years, Michael Willis, who predeceased Bill in 2024, were lifelong opera fans when, in the mid-1980s, they discovered Glimmerglass Opera. At the time, the company was performing in the high school and producing seasons with the help of community volunteers who worked alongside professional musicians and performers. As Met regulars, Bill and Michael were surprised by and delighted with the quality of the singers and productions at the fledging company. Wooed by the beauty of the area and the fact that they could see opera in the summer, they built a second home in Cooperstown in 1985. Along the way, they were introduced to General and Artistic Director Paul Kellogg. With backgrounds in fundraising and publishing, both were hired by Paul — Bill in 1994 as the Opera’s first full-time Development Director, and Michael a year later as the company’s first Director of Press and Public Relations. They retired from Glimmerglass in 2004, but their contributions to the growth of Glimmerglass remain legendary, having dramatically enlarged the donor base and reputation of the company. Bill and Michael met while students at Columbia University, where they became friends with philosopher and historian, Jacques Barzun, who taught at Columbia College, and opera composer, Jack Beeson, who was affiliated with the Columbia University Opera Workshop. Bill and Michael introduced Paul Kellogg to both, which led to a series of popular lectures by Barzun throughout the 1990s, and to an acclaimed production of Beeson’s Lizzie Borden at Glimmerglass in 1996, which was subsequently seen in Lincoln Center at New York City Opera. Following their retirement, Bill and Michael continued as avid supporters of the Festival, with Bill attending the fiftieth anniversary season last summer despite health struggles. Bill will long be remembered by Glimmerglass audiences for his humor, knowledge, warmth and kindness. His fundraising style, which made every patron feel personally valued, remains a hallmark of the Festival.
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JEAN SEROKA For years, Festival audiences were warmly greeted by the familiar face of Jean Seroka as they entered the Alice Busch Opera Theater. Jean, along with her husband, Joe, who passed away in 2022, devoted nearly two decades of summers to Glimmerglass as volunteer ushers. The Festival lost a wonderful friend and passionate volunteer with Jean’s passing this past December. At the end of each summer, the Festival honors its many volunteers for their service, and the Serokas twice won the Usher of the Year Award, a distinction that they were deeply proud of. Jean was also a member of The Guild of the Glimmerglass Festival. Though she demurred repeated invitations to join the Guild Board because of her devotion to ushering, she supplied the annual Guild Gala with beautiful plants which she grew in her greenhouse for the event’s silent auction. She also looked forward to contributing her famous and popular deviled eggs to the many meals that the Guild hosts over the course of the season for production staff, cast parties and the company’s annual “Eat and Greet” to welcome summer artists and staffers.
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In her student years, Jean sang with and was the occasional accompanist for her school chorus. As an adult, she played piano for local churches and sang with the Catskill Choral Society. Beyond performing and ushering, she always found ways to share her love of music by distributing pre-read copies of Opera Magazine to medical offices and encouraging friends and acquaintances to attend the Festival. She will be greatly missed by many who have become accustomed to seeing and being welcomed by her each summer.
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JOHN CONKLIN
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For the 50th Anniversary Season, Glimmerglass called on Associate Artistic Director Emeritus John Conklin to design four productions exploring “the art of making art.” Pictured clockwise from upper left are his designs for The House on Mango Street, The Rake's Progress, Sunday in the Park with George, and Tosca. During his decades-long.... During his decadeslong association with Glimmerglass, John shaped a unique approach to producing opera, mentoring countless artists, technicians, and administrators along the way. John passed away shortly before opening night of a season like no other. We will miss him deeply.
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Name a Seat at Glimmerglass Take your place in our legacy. Through our special Seat Naming Campaign, leave a lasting impression on the Alice Busch Opera Theater, one of the most beloved and intimate performance spaces in the country—and have an immediate impact on our future. By naming a seat, you become a permanent part of the Glimmerglass experience.
Whether in honor of a loved one, in memory of someone special, or as a reflection of your personal commitment to the arts, naming a seat is a meaningful and visible way to support Glimmerglass. A plaque bearing your name — or any dedication message of your choosing — will be affixed to the arm of the seat for seasons to come. Plaques can accommodate three lines of text (max 25 characters per line). To name a seat, contact Kathy Buck at 607- 547-0700 ext. 299 or kbuck@glimmerglass.org.
SEAT NAMING OPPORTUNITIES Prime Seats
$7,500
Orchestra Seats
$5,000
Balcony Seats
$3,000
Box Seats
$2,000
Learn more glimmerglass.org/seat-naming
All seat donations are fully tax-deductible and gifts of $5,000+ can be pledged over multiple years. Please Note: Naming a seat as part of this campaign does not guarantee access to that specific seat/s when purchasing individual or subscription tickets for performances. Seat selections for ticketed events are subject to availability at the time of booking.
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Become a Member of The Goodyear Society Enjoy the Satisfaction of Creating a Legacy at Glimmerglass through an Estate Gift The Goodyear Society honors individuals and families who have made a gift to Glimmerglass through their will or estate plans to perpetuate the Festival and its programs. If you have already included Glimmerglass in your plans, please let us know so that we may thank you and invite you to become a member of this special group of supporters, which receives Camerata-level donor benefits. The Society is named after Tom Goodyear, one of our founders, and his mother, Jeannette Bissell Goodyear, both passionate opera fans whose gift of farmland was transformed into the theater and campus we enjoy today. There are many ways you can help Glimmerglass, now and into the future. In addition to providing invaluable support for productions, special programs and artists through our annual fund, you can help continue our work and maintain and improve the beautiful Glimmerglass theater and facilities through a designated capital contribution or legacy gift. Capital and planned gifts can be established in ways that benefit Glimmerglass as well as you, your family or another charity. Bequests of cash or securities, gifts of real estate, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, or making Glimmerglass a beneficiary of your IRA in your will are among the most popular ways to create a legacy at Glimmerglass. Please consult with a financial, tax or legal advisor about the method of contributing that is best for you. For more information about how you can support The Glimmerglass Festival through a planned gift, please contact Lyndsay Werking-Yip, Director of Development, at (607) 547-0700 ext. 238. Bequests can be made to Glimmerglass Opera Theatre, Inc., Taxpayer Identification No. 16-1053970.
We thank and recognize the members of the Goodyear Society Anonymous (5) Margaret Laird Anderson* Thomas I. Anderson Nancy Ayers* Dennis N. Banks Jim and Nancy Barton William Battin* Neil and Carolyn Baum John Beurket and Georgia Kustas John B. Black* Barbara Blaszak Mr.* and Mrs. Andrew M. Blum James and Deborah Breznay Van Broughton Ramsey and Robert Nelson Ge org O. Budenbender and Dr. Katherine Elwyn Larry*, Mary*, and Heidi Budro Beekman C. Cannon* Fern Caplan* Samuel Carabetta and Richard Molinaroli Mrs. William L . Cary* Stephen Case and Margaret Ayres Estate of Doris R. Christiana* Susan Stetson Clarke Charles Coffin and Lance Wickens Charles E. Cole Jeannine and Donald Cook Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.* Mary Cullen* Dr.* and Mrs. John Curtis Vittoria S. Demarest* Martha J. Dodge Peter Duchin Estate of Marie J. Eger* Rita Emanuel and John Anagnost Gwendolyn Ermlich Andrea K. Fallek* Dr s. Jane A . Feisthamel and Mary Margaret Snyder Estate of Jessie Flax* Donald Frazier* Gretchen Frazier*
Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman Faith E. Gay and Francesca Zambello William* and Jean B. Gerhartz Karen A . Gibbs* Mrs. G. McMurtrie Godley Sherwin M. Goldman Dr. M. E. Grenander* Dr. Brett B. Gutsche* Lewis R.M* and Gemma Hall The Raymond G.J. Han* and Paul E. Kellogg* Revocable Trust Mary E. Harrigan and Andrew P. Tothy Lisa Heilman- Cozzalio Jean Herzog PhD and Norbert Herzog PhD Barbara and Harry Howell Clinton R. Howell Estate of Alfred F. Hubay* Carol Johnston Daniel Kempton Clayton C. Kirking and Edward J. Sullivan Ron and Melissa Komora Joanne Kornoelje Elizabeth R. Lemieux, Ph.D. Nena P. Donovan Levine Dr . Katharine Lloyd and Dr. William B. Guiney Jr.* The Estate of Matthew Looram* Andrew Marlowe and Terri Miller Donald L . and Jeanette B. Martin Trust Ann D. McChord Mr. William McColl David and Millie McCoy Barbara McCullough Drs. Duncan McDowall and Sandra Campbell Christine McNaughton* Glenda Michailidis* Esther Milsted and Mark Luis Villamar Louis Monetti John and Annabel* Muenter Barbara H. Mulhern Merlin* and Janet Nelson M. Anne O’Connell
William Oliver* and Michael Willis* Susan M. O’Neil Charles “Jud” Pannaci Mary Buckley Parriott* Alan and Pamela Patunoff Dr.* and Mrs. Albert V. Payne Polly S. Pierson* Jeanne and Richard Porter Paul Raeder* Thomas C. Ragan Marsha and Neil Remland Diane Rich Krause and Gordon Krause Rona C.* and Arthur E. Rosenbaum Stephen Rosow and Ellen Goldner Kelley Rourke Robert* and Karen Schlather Dr. Raymond* and Hannah H. Schneider* Michael Sekus and Bianca Russo Mary E. Sherman* Patricia M. and H. William* Smith Estate of Gerard F. Songster* The Esther W. Spaulding Charitable Trust* Mr.* and Mrs. Edward W. Stack Tara Stack Estate of Scott L . Steele* Estate of Joanna T. Steichen* Hannah Lee Stokes* David* and Karin Svahn Richard Sylvester* Eugene V.* and Clare E.* Thaw Lloyd L . Thoms, Jr. Elizabeth Thorpe Dov and Tom Treiman Robert F. Van Wormer* Alan and Linda Vincent Margo and Anthony Viscusi Karen Watkins Andrew Weiss and Marc Osterweil Drs. Hannelore Wilfert and Karl Moschner Michael Young and Debra Raskin
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GOODYEAR SOCIETY TESTIMONIALS Dov and Tom Treiman Soon after establishing our relationship with each other, my husband Tom and I established ourselves as members of the Glimmerglass Community. Later on, we took the resolve to make Glimmerglass a major beneficiary of our wills, thus enrolling us in the Glimmerglass Goodyear Society. The Goodyear Society itself is named for the family that donated the land upon which our beloved Festival sits. Through the years, we have seen that land develop with more and more permanent and semi-permanent features. We would sit randomly here or there to admire the beauty of the campus. And then we got it into our heads to contribute directly to that permanent beauty by sponsoring an outdoor bench, bearing our name plaque. The purpose of the plaque, like this note, is not to honor us – we feel honored enough to be members of this beautiful family – but to inspire others to give gifts. Tom and I have been particularly focused on the Resident Artists program. What a joy it is when we see a star in the world of the major opera companies who got a start at Glimmerglass. We are honored to support this beauty for future generations with a planned gift.
Thomas I. Anderson After moving to Central New York in the summer of 1984, I attended my first Glimmerglass performance of Carmen at the Cooperstown High School. I was hooked. During those subsequent five years I was in the area, I joined the Guild, monitored the progress of the new Opera House going up near the shore of Otsego Lake, and attended the opening season of the Alice Busch Opera Theater. Yet after I left the area, I did not leave Glimmerglass: I have been returning nearly every summer since. I suppose the best and simplest way to describe what Glimmerglass means to me is that it enriches my life. And I hope Glimmerglass continues enriching others’ lives through its outstanding productions and development programs. I am happy to support Glimmerglass in my estate plans through a planned gift to the endowment fund.
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Diane Rich Krause and Gordon Krause I came from very little. What I did have was a loving family and a natural gift for the arts. Ever encouraging, my mother told me, “ Yes, you can have a career as a fine art painter.” As a young adult, working and going to night college in NYC, my friend, Cindy Dobie, asked me if I wanted to join her on a project in upstate New York. I said, “Sure! Why not?” That decision changed my life. The project? Painting the ceiling of the new Alice Busch Opera Theater for Glimmerglass Opera. We climbed scaffolding high above the theater floor to reach the ceiling, and met Hugh Hardy, the architect who hired us. Later, Hugh walked us across the muddy lawn to meet Tom Goodyear, who generously invited us to lunch.
Hugh and Tom took a chance on us. A chance to grow. A chance to create. A chance to discover what our talents could be. Later that first season, Glimmerglass hired me to paint set drops; from there, I worked for ten seasons as a Scenic Artist and Assistant Designer. With the experience I gained at Glimmerglass, I embarked on a 45-year career as a Scenic Artist, working for New York City Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Broadway, Television and Motion Pictures, The New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, and more. Coming full circle, it is easy to join the Goodyear Society. Thank you, Tom Goodyear. I will never forget your faith and goodwill, which echo through the years as Glimmerglass thrives; forever giving talented artists the opportunity to grow, to create and succeed.
Scenic Artists Diane Rich and Milena Pisano paint a red deck for Paul Bunyan, designed by Paul Steinberg, 1995.
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Gifts to The Glimmerglass Festival The Glimmerglass experience is made possible through the generosity of donors who share our commitment to the development of emerging talent, imaginative productions, and stimulating cultural and educational programs. We take this opportunity to thank and recognize those individuals who have made gifts of $100 or more to The Glimmerglass Festival during our 2025 fiscal year (October 1, 2024-September 30, 2025) or thus far this year (October 1, 2025-June 15, 2026). Space limitations do not permit us to list contributions under $100, but to these good friends and all of our supporters we extend our most sincere gratitude. To learn more about privileges and benefits associated with giving to Glimmerglass – as well as designated opportunities, such as sponsoring a production, a principal singer, a second stage program, an education project, an Apprentice or a Resident Artist – please call The Glimmerglass Festival Development Department at (607) 547-0700, ext. 238 or ext. 212.
CAMERATA Like those patrons in 16th-century Florence who helped give birth to opera and whose name we have borrowed, the Glimmerglass Camerata is a circle of generous benefactors whose enthusiasm for our creative vision and dedication to furthering the careers of young talent is expressed through exceptional levels of support. Camerata patrons receive all National Council benefits, are offered special artist sponsorship opportunities and are invited to exclusive salon-style musical evenings in thanks for their generosity. LEADERSHIP CIRCLE ($250,000 AND ABOVE)
Elizabeth M. and Jean-Marie R. Eveillard Nellie and Robert Gipson Jacqueline B. Mars Ted Snowdon and Duffy Violante Denise Littlefield Sobel
CHAIR’S CIRCLE ($100,000 - $249,999)
Maurice and Carolyn Cunniffe Wendy Curtis Karen A . Gibbs Alfred Lees and Ronald Nelson Thomas Simpson Michael Young and Debra Raskin
Anonymous Van Broughton Ramsey and Robert Nelson Patricia and John Chadwick John Conklin Ms. Emilie Roy Corey Dr. Anne McBride Curtis-Fischer Faith E. Gay and Francesca Zambello Beth and Gary Glynn Allison and W. Keyes Hill-Edgar Mr. and Mrs. Dudley D. Johnson Christine McNaughton Thomas C. Ragan The Savada-Stevenson Family Michael Sekus and Bianca Russo Eugene and Jean Stark
TRUSTEES’ CIRCLE ($25,000 - $49,999)
ARTISTS’ CIRCLE ($15,000 - $24,999)
Dianne Balfour and Carl Adkins Ge org O. Budenbender and Dr. Katherine Elwyn Sherwin M. Goldman The Guild of the Glimmerglass Festival Richard Kane and Gretchen McBeath Peter and Jane Keegan Frayda E. Lindemann Trust Thomas and Alison Lord Glenda Michailidis Esther Milsted and Mark Luis Villamar Melanie and David Niemiec Jerry and Marisabel Raymond John Ryland and Karen Craig Ryland Grant and Jacqui Smith Debra Valentine and Jill Gardiner Anne Wade and Gil Hagan Rebecca Fay Walsh Ann Ziff
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PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE ($50,000 - $99,999)
Rob Ainsley and Micah Waldstein Eugenia Ames Anthony and Ann Aviles Jim and Nancy Barton Katrina F.C. Cary and Linn Cary Mehta Allan Dinkoff and Roseanna DeMaria Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman Rod and Tina Gilfry Nicole Alfandre Halbreiner Marilynn and John Hill Ellen Jabbur Patricia Kavanagh and James Grant Belinda and Stephen Kaye Joanne Kornoelje In Memory of H. Kwan Elizabeth R. Lemieux, Ph.D. El izabeth Matthews and Brennan McDonough Constance and H. Roemer McPhee Jeffrey G. Mora Susan and Rob Morris Theda White Drs. Hannelore Wilfert and Karl Moschner
APPRENTICES’ CIRCLE ($10,000 - $14,999)
Anonymous (2) Elizabeth August and Thomas Mafrici Ann Beha, Ann Beha Architects Thomas and Christine D. Berk Clover M. Drinkwater David and Donna Farquhar Fe nimore Asset Management and FAM Funds Don and Mary Ellen Fenner Abby Kreh Gibson Erika Hall Gemma Hall Shannon E. Hill Gail J. Hupper and William H. Wood Beth Matthews Laurel McKee The Pohanka Family Foundation Mike and Marie Rourke Margarita Sears Pa tricia M. Smith, In honor of H. William Smith Jr. The Esther W. Spaulding Charitable Trust Alan and Linda Vincent Ellen Lentz Waldstein Tom and Christian Velasquez Watson
NATIONAL COUNCIL The National Council is a group of dedicated donors and Glimmerglass advocates throughout the country who contribute generous financial and ambassadorial support, and in exchange come together between seasons with artists and artistic personnel for behind-the-scenes programs and social gatherings. As ambassadors, they have the opportunity to invite friends and colleagues to off-season events to interest them in the Festival. PLATINUM ($7,500 - $9,999)
Nancy Iversen James Lippitt Joslin Janet Nelson Deborah and Michael Troner MD Kara Unterberg
GOLD ($5,000 - $7,499)
Kathryn Allen Edward J. and Laura G. Asher Ja mes E. Ballowe Jr. and Charles W. Ballowe Neil and Carolyn Baum Jenny Kallick and Robert Bezucha Truman and Ludmila Bidwell Barbara Blaszak Jacqueline Bradley Matt Brown Stephen and Judy Bernstein Bunzl Donald Clinton and Karen Wilkin Jeffrey P. Cunard and Mariko Ikehara Joan Desens and Simon Carr-Ellison Jason Duchin and Tanya Morgan Debórah Dwork and Ken Marek Scott Engle and Penelope Van Niel Thérèse Esperdy and Robert Neborak Dr s. Jane A . Feisthamel and Mary Margaret Snyder Jack Firestone and Firestone Family Fund Noushin and Greg Framke Karen Greenfield Robert and Patricia Hanft El izabeth Harvey, In memory of “E” and Mac Harvey Christopher R. Hatt Mr. and Mrs. Gates Helms Hawn Arie and Elaine Hochberg Maisie Houghton Ka thleen Mulhern Johnson and Bruce Ray Johnson Larry and Jackie Kamin Hon. and Mrs. M. Langhorne Keith Nena Donovan Levine Jane and Michael Lockshin The Lufkin Family Foundation Trust Stephanie Lynn and Mark P. Kleiman David and Millie McCoy Mary Moran and Jordan Kerber Cyril Moullée-Berteaux and Olivia Graham Barbara H. Mulhern Katharine Muir and Kenneth Witty Alan and Pamela Patunoff Andy Pharoah and Anita Gannon The Pohanka Family Foundation Marsha and Neil Remland Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Richard and Pam Siegel Derron Slonecker and Chiara Seidl James E. Smaltz Elizabeth Thorpe Dov and Tom Treiman Ko-Yung Tung and Susan Kohlmann Sukey Wagner Caleb Wertenbaker Judith Whalen and Paul Goldsmith
SILVER ($2,500 - $4,999)
Anonymous (3) Jeffrey and Mary Dale Allen Scotty and Danielle Alpaugh Kathleen Auda and Peter Skaperdas Dennis N. Banks Ellen Berelson and Larry Franks John Beurket and Georgia Kustas Truman and Ludmila Bidwell Felicia H. Blum Sarah M. Brown Kayellen Button and Bruce Loveys Jim and Terry Byrnes John and Nancy Carver Kelly Clarke Jan and Lloyd Constantine Jim Dalsimer and Ellen Steinbaum Prof. Christian C. and Ms. Ann M. Day Carol and Rick Detweiler Amy Dickinson and Bruno Schikel Rita Emanuel and John Anagnost Ellen Freeman Laurie Frenzel Virginia McGehee Friend James D Garbus and James P Vinett Marilyn Garman Richard Gilbert and Carol Urban Marilyn Go Drs. Deborah and Michael Goldberg Carla Hall Mona Harris Michael Heaston John Gordon Hill-Edgar Frank Holozubiec Beth Humes Craig and Susan Hupper Susan J. Huxtable and Joseph Novitski Dr. Martin Ihrig Caroline J. Jackson Padma Kaimal and Andrew Rotter Evelyn Kalenscher-Kirschenfeld Jason Karlawish, MD and John Bruza, MD Va lStarr Charitable Trust - Laurence Keiser and Susan Accetta Don and Irene Kerr Ar thur Kuckes and Martha Wright, Vector Magnetics Fund of The Community Foundation of Tompkins County Harry and Ellen Levine Dr. Katharine Lloyd Gregory Long and Scott Newman Rona Lucas Jerry Lynch Doris Fischer Malesardi Peter Manson and Peter Durfee Sandy and Suzanne Mayer Debra and Charles McCambridge John and Catherine McEnroe Karen McLaughlin and Mark Schubin Natasha Mehta and Nathan Heller Sage Mehta and Michael Robinson David and Anne Menotti Gary Mezzatesta William Miller and Talbot Logan Ami Montstream Paula G. Mosher
Marta Nottebohm The Offensend Family Foundation The Seniel Ostrow Foundation Bill Packard and Charles Ihlenfeld Peggy Parsons Jonathan Perle Matthew Price and Veerle Daenen Alexander Purves A . Putnam Benjamin and Janet Pyne Paul R. Reid and Thomas Hartnett Betty N. Robinson Paul Samuels and Nurit Margulies Kathleen Schaaf Dr. Thomas and Cynthia Sculco Adam and Ann Spence Robert M. Steiner and Faith Pleasanton Clayton C. Kirking and Edward J. Sullivan Richard Tarrant Lizzie and Paul Uhrig Gary and Marie Van Graafeiland Alan Wanzenberg Helen Wiley and Marian Payson Ellen Wood and Michael Durkee Martha Yager Karen A . Zurlo
BRONZE ($1,500 - $2,499)
Anonymous (10) Lou Allstadt and Melinda Hardin Jo hn T. Andrews Jr. and Elizabeth K. Lambert Woody and Cynthia Andrews Adam Antoszewski Susan K. Appel Helen-Jean Arthur The Asen Foundation Jack and Marion Auspitz Richard A Backer Cynthia Bagby Kile Baker Richard J. Balfour Juan Aristi Baquero Kent and June Barwick Ms. Astrid R. Baumgardner Pam M. Baxter Robert and Marcy Birch William Bissell Drs. Ellen Blum and Kenneth Novak Amy Branch and Ken Mason Max and Ellen Brantley John Brewer Nina Brodsky and Alan Kleinman Frank and Laurie Bruns Karl Buchberg and J Patrick Cooney Elizabeth Buchbinder Tim and Patty Burch William and Carol Burden Andree Caldwell Michael P. Cannon Jay E. Cantor Katrina F.C. Cary Stephen Case and Margaret Ayres Margaret Casey Anthony Cashara Mary Chruscicki and Patricia Baskinger
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Stephanie Cooper Clarke Michael Cleveland and Kathy Leach Li nda and Sarah Cohen Fund at The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Thomas and Loren Colbert Ann and Tom Connolly Chloe and Rod Correll James S. Covey and James P. Zabawa Deb and Jim Dalton Anna and Paul D’Ambrosio Samantha Davenport, MD Carey and Mary Lou Davino Dr. James C. Dawson Anke Dening-Volcker Ba rbara Dennison and Christopher Henkels Vincent T. DeVita MD Nicole and Gaylord Dillingham Paula DiPerna John Dobkin Marci Douglas and Lawrence Pollack Noreen Doyle Joanne and Jerry Dreher Arnold Drogen and Adena Miller Sherpa Karen Duguid and Wallace Johnson Cecily Eidelhoch Charles Eil and Adele Geffen Eil Mike and Emily Elko Robert Ellis Thomas R. Engel Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Equinda David and Kathleen Ernst Elizabeth Etoll Frank Farmer and Frank Kolbert Tracy and Scott Fauver Jim and Kenna Fenton P. Jay Fleisher and Judith A . Pachter Mary Flower Chris and Patty Fox Dr. and Mrs. Walter Franck M. E. Freeman Martha Frey and Andrew Baugnet Suzan D. Friedlander Elizabeth Garry and Elizabeth Cahill Charles and Linda Garnett Anne C. Gatling Pierrette Gaudreau James M. Gaughan and Keith C. Lee Catherine L . Gilliss Barbara Glauber and Amelia Glauber William and Cynthia Goertemoeller Steven and Susan Gold Frederic and Nancy Golden William Goodenough and Kelsey Gallagher Roe Goodman and Enriqueta Carrington Laura Graceffa & Mark Schlessman Mary Ellen and Michael Guerra Jane M. Gullong Mr. and Mrs. J.K. Hage III Ursula and Charles Hage Ellen and Scott Hand David Harding and Blair Trippe Mr. and Mrs. Fred Haritatos Angela Harris and Dick Friedrich Christina Hembree Jean & Norbert Herzog Christina M. Hickey Joyce Homan Dr. Marilyn and Bernard Horowitz Tim and Elizabeth Horvath Frederick Howard Fred Hughson and Liz Gavis
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Linda Irenegreene Marc Isserles Jean W. Jagendorf Mike and Connie Jastremski Barbara Jenkins Helen I. Jessup Celeste Johns and Chris Kjolhede Emily Johnson and Vijay Ramachandran Carol Johnston James M. Jordan and Cyndy Andela Kim and Kathleen Juhase Mark Kachigian and Anne Powrie-Smith Dr. Charles and Kathleen Keese Patricia A . Kelly Wendy Ann Keys Daniel Kempton Shoshana Keller and Deborah Reichler Teresa A . Kennedy Robert Kent Robin Kinnel Gail and Ed Kitch The KMC Foundation Paul and Laura Kohler Lauralyn and G. Roberts Kolb Robert D. Kraus and Kathleen M. Morris Lisa Kressbach Amy B. Kuhn and Stuart Rosow Maureen Kuhn and Caralee Carney Gloria Kulhawy Gary and Edna Lachmund Mark Lamos and Jerry Jones Grace E. Larkin Eric and Susi Larsen Larry Lawrence Richard Lawrence and Laura A . Leach Rich and Georgia Lee Suzette Lemson Judith Lerwick Arthur S. Leonard J.P. and Ellen Leventhal David Levinson and Kathy Kirn Ruth Leys and Michael Fried David Marcus and Brenda Bousfield F. X. Matt II Memorial Fund The Family of Amanda May James McCarthy and Joan Pirics Christine McDonald Dr s. Duncan McDowall and Sandra Campbell Camilla and Hugh McFadden Margaret McGown and Mark Zeek Ned McGuire Adam and Sarah Meister Wayne Mellor and Amy Cannon John and Susanna Membrino Pip Merrick Anthony Metzler Daniel M. Meyers Irene R. Miller James E. Miller and Fynnette Eaton William Miller and Talbot Logan Deborah Mintz Bob and Virginia Montgomery Rachel Moore and Harry Dodson John Muenter Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Muravchick Christina Bott Murphy Drs. Gregory Nagy and Olga Holly Davidson Ken Nathanson and Joseph MacDonald Donald Newsom Wendy and Bill Nolan Marta Nottebohm William Oliver and Michael Willis
Dr. James and Dianne Orcutt Charles E. Pannaci Bill and Norah Pattison Timothy and Barbara Pedley Sue & Dan Petrivelli H Stephen Phillips Corinne M. Plummer Michael Presser Susan and Kanti Rai Sarah and John Ralph Bill and Mickie Richtsmeier Kathleen Roberts and Howard Clyman Meryl A . Robertson Ron and Marianne Romano Kelley Rourke Georgeanne and Jean Rousseau Sharon Roy Karen Royce David M. Rubin and Christina Press Mr s. Marjorie Russel, The Leo Model Foundation John Russell David and Melanie Samuels Steven and Tammy Sanders Lisa Sarajian Patricia and Paul Saunders Carol S. Scheele Shira Scheindlin László R. Seress and Shuting Yan Jean Seroka Michael and Vivien Shelanski Robert L . Siebel Mark Silverschotz and Anne Segal Susan Smith and Robert Christman Stephen and Monica Spaulding Peter and Judith Stanton, Sweet Memories Nancy Stauffer and Jeffrey Hughes Carol Steele Ken and Carol Steigelman Anda Stelian and Douglas Glucroft Richard J. Sternberg Campbell Steward Judith Stoikov and Richard Miller Debra Stone and David Glaser Beth and John Storyk Dr. and Mrs. William Streck Alexandra Subbarao Jean Tisne Tom Tompkins and Jill Rowley Tompkins Jack Triplett George Valley Debbie Vivien Rose Wadsworth Sydney Lancaster Waller Suzanne Joslin Ward Morton and Corinne Weber Vera Weiss Dustin Z West Dorothy Wexler Carolyn Will Thomas Wilson and Kristin Koehler Paul Wolfson Dorothy M. Woodcock Bill and Ellen Yeckley Jo anne Jablow Yunich and Robert H. Yunich Tulu Yunus and Jameela Ali Deborah and Michael Zahn Howard Zar and Ray Kurdziel Amy and Jerel Zoltick
PATRONS Patrons are at the heart of our family of contributors, and we would not have grown to achieve international stature without their loyalty and invaluable support. GUARANTOR ($500 - $1,499)
Anonymous (6) David A . Ackerman Alice Alexiou Ed and Mary Ambrose Susan K. Appel Mary I. Arlin Norma J. Arnold Abraham Axler and Jenna Rich Richard A Backer Roger and Whitney Bagnall Nancy and Scott Bailey James and Hollis Barickman Jennie Rose Barlow James Matthew Bay Benevity Be verwyck Retirement Care Community Center Morris Birnbaum Blumberg Family Foundation Leslie Bonacum and Paul Gibson Bonnie Boyle Geoffrey Brackett Richard D. and Irene Q. Brown Charlotte Buchanan and Richard Pfau Mark A . Bunce Rear Adm. and Mrs. William C. Carlson Jerry Casey and Patrick Macey Charles Cesaretti Elena Ciletti and James Crenner Ch ristopher L . Cimijotti Charitable Fund of The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Joanne and Roger Clapp Susan Clearwater Ellen Coleman Georgia Court Lisa Anderson Cox Michael and Kathleen Crowe John and Julia Curtis Duke Dang and Charles Rosen Diana Davies Hans and Karin de Waal Dr. Arthur DiNapoli Peter and Suzanne Durant Laure Duval, MD Donald Eckert and Terry Foster Bob and Sally Edgar Conway and April Ella Kathy Faber Martha and Robert Fisher Susan H. Fisher Anne J. Fitzgerald Frederick Fladd Ruth Freeman Ms. Patricia Galea Camilla Galluzzo Jane Garmey Lawrence Gibbons and J. Ritchie Patterson The Glimmerglass Festival Production Staff Joseph F. Godfrey and Keith Halstead Christine Goerke Margot Golding Cheryl Gorelick Thomas Graedel Denyce Graves Gerhard Gruitrooy Dr. Anne Harrison Katie and David Haviland Jim and Betta Hedlund W. Morgan Hill-Edgar Barbara and Harry Howell
Marc Hom Kendall Hubert Margaret Huff Do uglas Hurd, D.D.S. and Cynthia J. Parlato, M.D. John Ianacone and Cynthia D’Ambrosio Regina Janes and Charles Woolley Kathleen Johnson and Paul Browning Ann R. Jones Eric and Laura Jordahl Peter Jordan Dr. and Mrs. George Kafka Stephen and Pamela Kalista L . Frederick Kaplan Holly Katz Ms. Johanna Keller and Mr. Charles Martin Wendy Ann Keys Laura Kilty and Bruce Kramer Gary and Roberta Kiss Ra bbi Sharon Kleinbaum and Randi Weingarten Fred and Nanett Laffan David Lakari Alison Lankenau Kathryn Larsen Philip Lawton Alice Jo and Marshall Lichtman Ann and William Lieff Drs. Michael and Joan Lotze Jeffrey Lowin Mark Lunsford Frank and Sidney Maas Amanda Savage Mahoney Se rena Black Martin and Alexander Byers Martin Jr. Abigail B. Mason Ellen McCourt Douglas McGuirk and Maryann Green Robert McMahon Louis Miano Debra Milstein Kathleen Moore and Judith Henningson Vikki Morain Barbara Moss and Thomas Bartol Clarke Narins Dr . Wayne Nelson and Prof. Marilyn Horowitz Dinah Nissen and Elizabeth Apelles Mr. Richard Norton Thomas C. Nye Anne Older Albert Oosterhof Carol Ann Pacco-Long David and Shirley Parish Paul and Sarah Patterson Sharon Pierce Rick and Cath Pollard Drs. Jeanne and Richard Porter Trevor Potter and Dana Westring Helen Rack and Erwin Guetig Paulette and Julian Rackow Cleota Reed Elizabeth and Dennis Regan Rene Reixach Elsie and Thom Rhodes Karen Richards Ken and Susi Ritzenberg Lesley and Mark Robinson Teddi Robinson Alix Ross and Ted Kastner Mary Royer and Nelson Burdick Roger Sagerman Mary Sanchez
Lawrence Schnur and Frank Fazio David and Joan Schulman Kathleen M. Scott Peter W. Shea and Dr. Suzan Smith Jonathan Sherman Brandon Sherr Susie Snowdon Barbara Somerville George T. Spera and Jane C. Ginsburg Hal and Carol Sox Laura Steinberg Frohman Edward A . and Claire G. Stiepleman Harvey and Mary Struthers Mira Stulman Mary Susman and Thomas Herm Carl Swanson Nancy Gordon and Paul Swedenburg J.S . Edward Tatnall and Daniel N. Colburn II The Cosmopolitan Club John Tomlinson and Richard Chen See Peter and Christina Townsend Elisabeth Trumpler Mary M Tynes Fred W. Ulrich James Vance and Stephanie Pincus Christopher Vecsy and Carol Ann Lorenz Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert T. Vincent John B. Webb and Nelson Mondaca Mr. and Mrs. Albert Weiss Stephanie Weiss Mark Whymeyer Matt and Molly Whyte Mitch and Mary Ellen Williams Elizabeth Woodard Marie and John Woodward Hannah Wunsch Stephen Zeller Steven Zerby and Joanne Tobey
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Anonymous (26) John F. Abel James and Lorraine Abruzzo J. Ackerman and J. McCarthy Steven J. Ackerman Act 1 Tours Joe Adams and Mechelle Lawrence Adams Terry D. Adkins Jane Adsit Annetta Alexandridis Katrine Ames H. Louise Amick Michael Amorese Arthur Hugh Anderson Robert C. Anderson Thomas I. Anderson Susan Antos and Edward Fallon Carolyn Antrim Ann Appelbaum Barbara Appignani Lindesay and Sixto Aquino Grace and Jim Arbury Abigail Armstrong Peter Aronson and Marie Landry Walter and Patricia Ashley Cindy Azim Alicia Bair Ellen Baisdell and Peter Exton Vera S. Baker Sheryl Balcomb Leslie Baldwin
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Rabbi Henry and Sheila Bamberger Ron and Alex Banay Mr. Michael Barkun Dr. David Barnert and Julie Raskin Lynn and Jonathan Bass Kitty Bateman Thomas and Muriel Beattie Carol Beechy and Kathryn Boardman Nan Beer Donald Behr Lawrence Bell Dr. and Mrs. Robert Benjamin Bob and Martha Berardino Claire Bergman Neil Bermel Jamie Bernstein Ruth Berry Linda Biemer Ellen Glass Birger, MD Elizabeth Blair Drs. Lester W. Blair and Hueldine Webb Rev. David S. Blanchard Thomas and Ellen Bonn Bob and Sue Bowker Peter and Sally Brodie Kevin and Paula Brogle Dr. Joan E Brooks and Dr. James I Garrels Andrew and Olga Brown Dan and Michele Brown Kent Brown and Nat Thomas Paul Brown and Susan Loevenguth Greg Buch Keith A. Bundy Marian Burke Paul Bursic Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Cadwalader Karina Calabro Thomas F. Cannon and Joseph Harding Christine Carpenter Meg Carter Susan and David Cathers Philomena Cerone Kathy, Tom and Amanda Chase Judith Chestler George and Laurel Christie Charles Church Maria Lally Clark Melanie Clarke Sam and Carolyn Clemence Karyl Clemens Katie Koch Code and Chris Code Marie and Paul Cohen Alan and Candace Collmer Jay Harrison and Jeanne Conroy Kevin and Amy Coogan Ruth Cowan Sally Crow John and Lois Crowe Judith Curry James and Suzanne Cusack Michael Cynamon Joanne D’Agnese Connie and Pat Dalton Philippe Danielski Judith and Joseph Darweesh William Davenport Dean Davis Colleen Daze Ron Decicco and Linda Prospero Matthew Denison Kathleen Dewitt Matthew Diller and Katherine Kennedy Carole W. Di Nonno Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Director Robert Doane Eric Donaldson Julie Donick Karen D’Orazio Christian Dorbandt and Dennis Hunsicker David M Dorsen
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Robert and Barbara Hammond Gretchen M. Handwerger Kel Haney Consulting Roy and Barbara Hansen Leif and Claudia Hartmark Georgene Hawe John Haworth Nancy and Jim Hays Jean and Lewis Hecht Richard A. Hefft Lisa Heilman-Cozzalio Martha Heneghan William Hetzer Berna Heyman Dick and Mary Ellen Hibey Walter B.D. Hickey Jr. Blanche Hill Lois and David Hinman Donna M. Hlavacek Dr. Mary Ellen Hoffman and Jonathan Dono Heidi Holder Neesa and Evan Holland Paul J. Horowitz and Ruth Jaffe Vicki Hoshko Peter Howard David and Yayoi Howell Gary and Ackli Howell Kenneth Howitt Patricia Isgro Jonathan Ivers Ralph Jahnige Rev. Betsy Jay Carol Jenkins Charles and Linda Johnson Shari Johnson-Ploutz Daniel Jonas and Alexandra Epsilanty Angela Jones Marjorie Turrell Julian Herman and Carole Kane David E. Kaplan Luise-Charlotte Kappe Michael and Linda Kehoe Alfred Kelly and Sharon Burke Nelson Kent Virginia Khoury Milton Kimura Ellen King Urling and Hugh Kingery Olga Kinnear Maggie Kirkaldy Stephen and Mary Sue Kitchen Rose-Marie Klipstein Elisa Koff-Ginsborg and David Ginsborg Eugene Kohn Larry Kohorn Nancy Kollisch and Jeff Pressman Ron and Melissa Komora M. Suzette Kopecek Igor Koroluk Dr. Beatrice Kovasznay Carol Kriss Ronald Kroll Steve and Teri Kruk Thomas and Kate Kurosky Diane LaBelle and Dr. Norman Girardot The Lachance Family Peter and Melissa Lacijan II Barbara LaCorte Mosie Lasagna Alfred and Glenda Law Tom Law Dorothy Lawson John Lawson & Bayron Lopez Joanne and Carl Leaman Rheanolte and Annie Marie LeBarbour Bonnie and Joel Lester David Levy and Ellen Levy Victor and Katharine G. Lidz Jean Lilja Maurine Linder and Glenn Fletcher
Janet Little Mary and Garet Livermore Richard and Elizabeth Livingston LJ’s Sassy Boutique Laurence S. Lockridge Rose Carol Long and Walter Corwin Mary Longey James MacKillop Ann Maggs and Walter Carroll Stephen Maher and Christine Fernandez Amanda Savage Mahoney Paul Maloy Dennis Mancl and Susan Aurin Dr. Robert and Mary Mansbach Brad Marcus Russell and Leslie Seid Margolis Donald Marks Deborah L. Marr Mark Mastroianni William D. Mattern Kenneth and Donyce McCluskey Anne C. McCoy Pam and Gene McGuire Betsy McIlvaine Dr . Bertine Colombo McKenna and Mr. Patrick McKenna Elizabeth and David McMillan Kathy Meadows Marcia Membrino Sue Ellen Merry Hugh W. Miller Jonathan and Debra Ann Miller Judith G. Miller Anne Parker Mills Michael and Barbara Miskiv Louis Monetti Lisa and Bart Mongelli Ashley Montgomery Geoffrey Moore David Morganstern Alice and Frank Morigi Kenneth Mortensen Jr. Marion Mossman Jennifer Mouriz Heidi J. Muir and Marc Laymon Dr. Rajat and Katharine Mukherji Regina M. Mullen David and Elaine Murray Joseph Murray Maureen Fitzgerald Murray Thomas W. Myers Jaye Nakamura Dr. Michael Nazar and Catherine Callery Pamela J. Nelson Ted and Mary Neumann Kate Newman Nancy Niles Stephen Nissenbaum and Dona Brown Richard and Dari Norman Jack Norton Zoë Nousiainen Shylene Nunez Francis and Peggy Oates Brighid O’Brien Darby O’Brien Mr. Thomas O’Connor Pat and Dan Odell Peter O’Hara Dr. and Mrs. Paul Ohlbaum Timothy and Kara O’Leary David and Laura Olson Mark Olson and Jenny Warren Michael and Marilyn Orenstein Amy Orr Stephen Orvis and Carol Drogus David Osborne Edith Osterman MaryKate Owens Philip Pearle Alexandra and Frederick Peters
Dale and Lorna Peterson Marie Petta Chris and Carol Pfister Dr. and Mrs. Roland Philip Hope Plasha Alberta Poland Judith and Arnold Poltenson Ms. Barbara Porter Douglas and Lynda Porter Joel Potash and Sandra Hurd Janet L. Potter David and Deborah Pursch Gary Quirk and Charlotte Haas Mi riam Radakovich, In memory of K. William Harter Catherine and Donald Raddatz James Rasin and Anne Loretto Maggie Raywood Michael and Sharon Rebell Joan Redmond Anthony Reed Caryn and Jamie Reeves Karen Reid Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Reideler Peter and Susan Restler Martin Ricciardi and Heidi Nicholson Angie Richards Nick Richardson Wayne and Monica Richter Bridget Rigas Christian and Stanley Riveles David Robbins MD Dean M. Robinson Drs. George and Ingrid Robinson James Robinson Richard and Deborah Rogler Rosemarie Rosen Susan Rosengrant and Nancy Ryan Stephen Rosow and Ellen Goldner Dolores J. Rothwell Lisa Rubenstein Carl A. Rubino and Barbara Gold Noel Rubinton and Amy Cohen Diane and Ira Rubtchinsky Rudy’s Wine & Liquor Nicholas G. Russell Colleen Ryan Dr. G. Jeremiah and Gail C. Ryan Dr. Victor and Gail Sacchi Jeanne and Jeff Salinger Susan E. Saltus Sasha Savransky Howie & Rachel Schaffer Barbara and Jeffrey Schindler Linda Schleicher Wayne and Cynthia Schneider Michael Schnell Elizabeth Marie Schoenleber David and Joan Schulman Robert and Gail Schwartz Dr. Mariellen Scott Susan Clare Scott Julia A Scranton Brenda Seery Paul J. Seidman Caroline Seligman and George Jolly Martin and Dagni Senzel Sew Advisory Services LLC Conrad L. Sheck June Sheehan David Shengold Bruce Shenkar Richard and Terry Shenton Ethan Shevach Dr. Ronald and Joanne Shevock James W. Shults Mary Simonson and Jeff Bary Anna Simpson Ca rla H. Skodinski and Michael M. Fieldman
Andrea Small Jim and Cindie Smart Beverly Smith Carol A. Smith Rosalie and Roger Sokol Cozata Solloway and Michael Shipman Gretchen Sorin Caroline Southworth Martha Lee Spaulding Mark Spergel Springfield Museums Amy and Walter Srebnick Nell Stanton Judy Staubo Bob and Gail Stein Michael Stein and Doris Motta Jane Stewart Susan Y. Stewart Lee Stockwell John Strasswimmer Peter and Joanna Strauss Fred Strickhart Eleanor Stromberg Anthony Sullivan Woody and Gregg Swain Patricia K. Swanson Tetsuo Tamanaha Gwen Tarbox Yusuf Tatli Mei Su Teng Josephine Teverow Allen Thomas Alvin and Lesley Morgan Thompson David and Eileen Thompson Nancy and Roy Thornton Thomas and Madeleine Tiktin Dr. David C. Tinling Victor Todisco Amy Tompkins Richard Tourangeau and Marilyn Miller David Tovey Kimberly Tucker Thomas Tucker Thomas Turnbull Sally Turner Lani and Jim Ulrich Lorraine Vekens Janet and Roland Vinyard Albert Voorneveld Gail P. and Stephen V. Walker Sean Walmsley and Sherry Bishko John and Kathy Walsh Wendy Wanniger Nancy Waples Arthur and Madelaine Warren Tom and Christian Velasquez Watson Don Weimer Seymour Weingarten Andrew Weiss and Marc Osterweil Alva and Mary Welch Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home Dolores and Clifton Wharton Irene White Mary I. Whitehead F. Elaine Williams Paul Wing Eric Wojahn Daniel Marshall Wood Bruce and Elaine S. Wratten Yale University Edward C. Yim and Erick Neher George Yip Wesley York and Robert Scrofani Douglas and Cheryl Zamelis Mike Zdeb Wei Zhou Grace Zimmer Joyce Zucker Kathryn and Howard Zukof Karen A. Zurlo
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GOVERNMENT, FOUNDATIONS, AND CORPORATE The Glimmerglass Festival is grateful to our institutional partners — foundations, businesses and government agencies — which have provided essential support for our 2026 productions, Resident Artists Program, theater-arts and administrative apprenticeships, community activities and operations. CAMERATA
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LEADERSHIP CIRCLE ($250,000 AND ABOVE) The Clark Foundation John R. and Joyce McC. Hupper Charitable Fund The Tianaderrah Foundation
PLATINUM ($7,500–$9,999) Amica Insurance The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. USB Financial Services Inc.
PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE ($50,000–$99,999) Arthur F. & Alice E. Adams Charitable Foundation Robert and Esther Black Family Foundation The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund
GOLD ($5,000–$7,499) The Amphion Foundation The Dewar Foundation, Inc. The Eggleston Foundation The Jack M. and Marsha S. Firestone Fund
TRUSTEES’ CIRCLE ($25,000–$49,999) Ro bert and Esther Black Family Foundation Fund of the Richland County Foundation Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties Glimmerglass Medical & Wellness, LLC. Lindemann Charitable Foundation II Inc. New York State Council on the Arts Ku rt Weill/Lotte Lenya Artist supported by The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music ARTISTS’ CIRCLE ($15,000–$24,999) The Raymond Han and Paul Kellogg Foundation The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music OPERA America
SILVER ($2,500 – $4,999) Steven A . Gold Charitable Educational Institutions Trust Ar thur Kuckes and Martha Wright, Vector Magnetics Fund of The Community Foundation of Tompkins County The Seniel Ostrow Foundation BRONZE ($1,500–$2,499) Li nda and Sarah Cohen Fund at The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Gretchen Frazier Fund of the Arizona Community Foundation L3Harris Foundation The Leo Model Foundation, Mrs. Marjorie Russel
APPRENTICES’ CIRCLE ($10,000–$14,999) The Theodore H. Barth Foundation, Inc. Fenimore Asset Management and FAM Funds Schmidt Vocal Arts
PATRONS GUARANTOR ($500–$1,499) The Bagby Foundation For The Musical Arts, Inc. Benevity Community Foundation of Otsego County PayPal Charitable Giving Fund
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CONTRIBUTOR ($100–$499) Caterpillar Foundation Ch ristopher L. Cimijotti Charitable Fund of The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region LJ's Sassy Boutique
50TH ANNIVERSARY CAMPAIGN The Glimmerglass Festival’s 50th Anniversary Campaign, “Destined to Glimmerglass,” is a $7.5 million+ initiative launched in 2025 to secure the future of the opera company as an international destination and premier training ground. The campaign supports Young Artists, expands diverse programming, and sustains the Festival’s role in American opera. LEADERSHIP CIRCLE ($200,000 AND ABOVE) Anonymous Rob Ainsley and Micah Waldstein Patricia and John Chadwick The Clark Foundation Elizabeth M. and Jean-Marie R. Eveillard Faith E. Gay and Francesca Zambello Beth and Gary Glynn Allison and W. Keyes Hill-Edgar Jo hn R. and Joyce McC. Hupper Charitable Fund Esther Milsted and Mark Luis Villamar Michael Young and Debra Raskin CHAIRS CIRCLE ($100,000–$199,999) Wendy Curtis Nellie and Robert Gipson Ann and John McChord Thomas C. Ragan Thomas Simpson Ted Snowdon and Duffy Violante PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE ($50,000–$99,999) Dianne Balfour and Carl Adkins Ge org O. Budenbender and Dr. Katherine Elwyn Mr. and Mrs. Dudley D. Johnson Susan and Rob Morris Barbara H. Mulhern Jerry and Marisabel Raymond John Ryland and Karen Craig Ryland The Savada-Stevenson Family Michael Sekus and Bianca Russo Jean and Gene Stark Debra Valentine and Jill Gardiner Ann Ziff TRUSTEES’ CIRCLE ($25,000–$49,999) Maurice and Carolyn Cunniffe Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman Marilynn and John Hill Richard Kane and Gretchen McBeath Thomas and Alison Lord The Pohanka Family Foundation Grant and Jacqui Smith ARTISTS’ CIRCLE ($15,000–$24,999) Anonymous The Guild of the Glimmerglass Festival Hon. and Mrs. M. Langhorne Keith Erna Morgan McReynolds and Tom Morgan Ho n. Susan Phillips Read - In Memory of Hon. Judith S. Kaye Edward and Mary Lee Turner
DONOR WALL ($10,000–$14,999) The Andersen Family Thomas I. Anderson Ja mes E. Ballowe Jr. and Charles W. Ballowe Jim and Nancy Barton The Robert & Marcy Birch Family Trust George and Nancy Brodie Karl Buchberg and J Patrick Cooney Jim and Terry Byrnes Ka trina F.C. Cary and Linn Cary Mehta, In memory of Katherine L.F.C Cary Susan Stetson Clarke Joseph and Susan Colaneri The Correll Family Foundation Prof. Christian C. and Ms. Ann M. Day Nicole & Gaylord Dillingham and Family To honor Edythe Thurber Donovan, who gave me opera Karen Duguid and Wallace Johnson Fynnette Eaton and James E. Miller Don and Mary Ellen Fenner Fo rever Grateful for the Art - The Franck Family Ronald and Caroline Frohne Abby Kreh Gibson Sherwin M. Goldman and Andrew Barnes Matt, Kara, Lilly, Gavin & Kian Grady Erika Hall Raymond Han and Paul Kellogg Mr. and Mrs. Fred Haritatos El izabeth Harvey - In memory of “E” and Mac Harvey Je an & Norbert Herzog – Here’s to the future! Christina M. Hickey Shannon E. Hill Tim and Elizabeth Horvath Celeste Johns & Chris Kjolhede Emily Johnson and Vijay Ramachandran Ka thleen Mulhern Johnson and Bruce Ray Johnson James Lippitt Joslin Belinda and Stephen Kaye Jane, Alexandra and Peter Keegan Va lStarr Charitable Trust - Laurence and Susan Keiser Don and Irene Kerr Lauralyn and G. Roberts Kolb In Memory of H. Kwan Elizabeth R. Lemieux, Ph.D. LA TE LIFE LOVE - Rosanne & Marty Leshner Edward and Karen Levene David Levinson and Kathy Kirn Doris Fischer Malesardi Peter Manson and Peter Durfee Am anda C. May, Founding Production Manager Jeanne McNaughton Karen Metcalf In honor of Gretchen R. Nicholas Peggy Parsons H Stephen Phillips Matthew Price and Veerle Daenen
Mi riam Radakovich - In memory of K. William Harter James Rasin and Anne Loretto In Memory of Stewart Robertson Beth Sapery and Rosita Sarnoff The Schlather Family Martin and Dagni Senzel László R. Seress and Shuting Yan Pa tricia M. Smith in honor of H. William Smith Jr. Peter and Judith Stanton - Sweet Memories Gerald and Grace Sun In Memory of Frances J. and William P. Lentz - Ellen Lentz Waldstein Suzanne Joslin Ward Tom and Christian Velasquez Watson Dr. F. Todd and Laura Wetzel Deborah and Michael Zahn GOLD ($5,000–$9,999) Kathryn Allen Neal and Tracy Allen Pam M. Baxter Douglas and Beatrice Broadwater Van Broughton Ramsey and Robert Nelson Allan Dinkoff and Roseanna DeMaria David and Donna Farquhar Robert and Patricia Hanft Kathryn Larsen Harry and Ellen Levine The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Laurel McKee John Muenter Lawrence Schnur and Frank Fazio Ken and Carol Steigelman Dov and Tom Treiman Do rothy Bradford Wexler and Elizabeth Bradford Borden Bill and Ellen Yeckley Steven Zerby and Joanne Tobey SILVER ($2,500 – $4,999) Anonymous Lou Allstadt and Melinda Hardin Jennie Rose Barlow Do nald Clinton and Karen Wilkin, In memory of Robin Rubinstein and Sandra Handler Maggie Daicar Carol and Rick Detweiler Priscilla Jordan Elliott Richard Gilbert and Carol Urban Carla Hall Ron and Rebecca Harris-Warrick Frank Holozubiec The Dr. Cyrus Katzen Foundation, Inc. Ron and Melissa Komora Mary Moran and Jordan Kerber Janet and David Offensend Susan M. O’Neil Margaret Smedes Poyner Paul R. Reid and Thomas Hartnett Ellen Wood and Michael Durkee Howard Zar and Ray Kurdziel
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BRONZE ($1,500–$2,499) Anonymous (2) Dennis N. Banks Felicia H. Blum Paula Campos and Rodrigo Bitar Tom and Denise Dailey Samantha Davenport, MD Dr. James C. Dawson Deborah DeMott Robert Doane Arnold Drogen and Adena Miller Sherpa Peter and Suzanne Durant James and Rebecca Eckel Rita Emanuel and John Anagnost Thomas R. Engel Frank Farmer and Frank Kolbert Dr s. Jane A. Feisthamel and Mary Margaret Snyder Jim and Kenna Fenton Susan H. Fisher Ellen Freeman Keith and Terry Fulmer Frederic and Nancy Golden Roe Goodman and Enriqueta Carrington Nicole Alfandre Halbreiner Martha Hall Ellen and Scott Hand Mona Harris Christina Hembree Frederick Howard Barbara and Harry Howell Kendall Hubert Jean W. Jagendorf Carol Johnston Shoshana Keller and Deborah Reichler Clayton C. Kirking and Edward J. Sullivan Richard Lawrence and Laura A. Leach Linda Metzger Daniel M. Meyers Kathleen Moore and Judith Henningson Dinah Nissen and Elizabeth Apelles M. Anne O’Connell and Robert White Dr. Michael Olding and Chris Morrison Bill Packard and Charles Ihlenfeld Sue & Dan Petrivelli Rick and Cath Pollard Alexander Purves Catherine and Donald Raddatz Susan and Kanti Rai Betty N. Robinson Richard and Deborah Rogler Alice Root Margarita Sears
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Michael and Vivien Shelanski Susan P. Snowdon Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation Richard J. Sternberg Dr. and Mrs. William Streck Richard Tarrant Ko-Yung Tung Gary and Marie Van Graafeiland Helen Wiley and Marian Payson Jo anne Jablow Yunich and Robert H. Yunich Karen A. Zurlo
PATRONS GUARANTOR ($500–$1,499) Anonymous (2) Mark A. Bunce Kayellen Button and Bruce Loveys Julie and Scott Cappel John and Nancy Carver Judith Curry Kathleen Dewitt John A. Faust The family of Don and Mary Ellen Fenner Pa tricia Froyo-McCarty and Michael McCarty Camilla Galluzzo Jane Graves Louise Hartwell Jim and Betta Hedlund Michael Jakubowski Virginia Lee Kintz Kelly Kuo and Kim Pham Ross P. Lanzafame, Esq. Eric and Susi Larsen Charles E. Pannaci Alan and Pamela Patunoff Mary Royer and Nelson Burdick Nicholas G. Russell Patricia and Paul Saunders Jonathan Sherman Katrina Smith Anda Stelian and Douglas Glucroft Jennifer Svahn, MD and Jeff Nicastro, MD Peter and Christina Townsend Thomas Wilson and Kristin Koehler
CONTRIBUTOR ($1–$499) Anonymous Katrine Ames Roger and Linda Anderson Pascal Archer Peter Aronson and Marie Landry Thomas P. Austin Bernadette Winters Bell Ruth Berry Richard and Anne Blabey Joan Fiori Blanchfield Gerry and Linda Blume Heather Brighton and Martin Joel Lieberman Peter and Sally Brodie George C. Brown and Michael Vasas Renee Brown Candace and Charles Burton Gregory Chase Daniel Chien Dan and Peg Church Ch ristopher L. Cimijotti Charitable Fund of The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Katie Koch Code and Chris Code David Colby Mr. and Mrs. James F. Crum Linda Delfs John G. DiLiberto Matthew Diller and Katherine Kennedy Mary Ann Donnelly David and Cindy Engel Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Equinda Jim and Shizuka Feeney Michael Scott Ferris Eric Sean Fogel Lane Franz Alice V. Gelormino Kevin Grady Kim Greiner Jeannine M. Grossman Paul Grzella and Edward Edwards Mary Haggerty Pauline and Henry Hamelin Jay Harrison and Jeanne Conroy Bonnie and Scott Harrison Katie and David Haviland Barbara Hein W. Morgan Hill-Edgar Heidi Holder James Houlihan Mary Beth Houlihan Kenneth Howitt
Dr . Bertine Colombo McKenna and Mr. Patrick McKenna Karen McLaughlin and Mark Schubin Jonathan C. Mills Ami Montstream John and Sarah Moragne Taralee Morgan Alice and Frank Morigi Pamela J. Nelson Nelle Nugent and Jolyon Stern Carol Ann Pacco-Long Kerry Paice Stephanie and Jim Patrick Elizabeth Stockton Perkins Joel Potash and Sandra Hurd Brian Quigley Kevin Ramos Elizabeth Redd and Tor Dutcher Elsie and Thom Rhodes Nick Richardson Susan Rosengrant and Nancy Ryan Stephen Rosow and Ellen Goldner David Ross and Martha Sutter Susan E. Saltus Janet Sand Joanne Schindelheim Candice Shannon Elizabeth Sheldon Bruce Shenkar Abigail Sheusi
Susan Smith and Robert Christman Gary and Christine Snow Cozata Solloway and Michael Shipman Dana Spiotta Stagecoach Coffee Lisa Stanley Robert and Sarah Stein Jane Stewart Mira Stulman Anne Sullivan Allison and Michael Swift Mary E. Thombs Thomas and Madeleine Tiktin Shirley Tom-Byrne Robin Torrence Anne Zwick Turner Alfred and Maria Valentini Kristin and Will Walker Sydney Lancaster Waller Don Weimer Naomi Weinstock Lauren Werking Irene White Bill Williams Margaret Wineman and James Mullen Ying Wu David and Patty Wukitsch Douglas and Cheryl Zamelis
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Desirae Hunter Susan J. Huxtable and Joseph Novitski Barbara Jenkins Thor Johnson Shari Johnson-Ploutz Katherine Johnston Laura Kachelmeyer Daniel Kempton Teresa A. Kennedy Laura Kilty and Bruce Kramer Michael Klare Eric and Susie Knight Rhona Koretzky and Bernard Forman Dr. Beatrice Kovasznay Kevin Kraham Mary Margaret Kuhn Peter and Melissa Lacijan II Lisa Lawrence The LeCours Family Darryl L’Heureux Janet Little Richard and Elizabeth Livingston Susan Lobel Linda Loomis Dr. Garrett R. Lynch and Mr. James Ezrow Dr. Leonard and Susan Lyon Ron Lytel and Beth Olearczyk James MacKillop Pam and Gene McGuire
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DESIGNATED SPONSORSHIPS Among our benefactors are those whose passion for our work is expressed through designated contributions. We recognize these generous friends for their assigned support for this year. 2026 FESTIVAL SEASON SPONSORS
PRINCIPAL ARTIST SPONSORS
The Clark Foundation
Dia nne Balfour and Carl Adkins Sponsors, Travon Walker
Maurice and Carolyn Cunniffe Alfred Lees and Ronald Nelson New York State Council on the Arts The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation
Pat ricia and John Chadwick Sponsors, Colin Aikins
Denise Littlefield Sobel
Ms. Emilie Roy Corey Sponsor, Eric Sean Fogel
GIFTS IN SUPPORT OF MAINSTAGE AND PAVILION REPERTORY
All ison and W. Keyes Hill-Edgar Sponsors, Michael Adams
Van Broughton Ramsey and Robert Nelson Production Sponsor, Robin Hood
Joh n R. and Joyce McC. Hupper Charitable Fund Sponsor, Festival Artist Gregory Feldmann Sponsor, Festival Artist Keely Futterer
Eli zabeth M. and Jean-Marie R. Eveillard Production Sponsors, Oklahoma! Fen imore Asset Management and FAM Funds Production Sponsors, Robin Hood Nel lie and Robert Gipson Production Sponsors, Madame Butterfly Jac queline B. Mars Production Sponsor, Oklahoma! Jac queline B. Mars Production Sponsor, Robin Hood The Savada-Stevenson Family Sponsor, Fellow Travelers Opening Night: July 18, 2026 Eug ene and Jean Stark Sponsor, Fellow Travelers Performance: August 7, 2026 Ted Snowdon and Duffy Violante Production Sponsors, Fellow Travelers SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS The Bagby Foundation For The Musical Arts, Inc. Sponsor, 2026 Resident Artists Program Ms. Emilie Roy Corey Sponsor, The Glimmerglass Festival Trolley Fen imore Asset Management and FAM Funds Sponsors, Neighbors’ Nights Tickets Initiative Bet h and Gary Glynn Sponsors, Glimmerglass Medical & Wellness Employee Care Program The Guild of The Glimmerglass Festival Providing changeover meals for staff JAM S New York Arbitration Host, Glimmerglass Festival Board of Trustees Meetings The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc. Sponsor, 2026 Apprenticeship Program, Resident Artists and Festival Artists Program, and Program Impact Research Sel endy Gay PLLC Host, Glimmerglass Festival Board of Trustees Meeting Den ise Littlefield Sobel Sponsor, 2026 Apprenticeship Program Tia naderrah Foundation Sponsor, 2026 Resident Artists Program
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Mr. G eorg O. Budenbender and Dr. Katherine Elwyn Sponsors, Joshua R. Horowitz
Pet er and Jane Keegan Sponsors, Eric Einhorn Lin demann Charitable Foundation II Inc. Sponsor, Amanda Batista Dav id and Melanie Niemiec Sponsors, Eri Nakamura Tho mas C. Ragan Sponsor, Troy Cook Joh n Ryland and Karen Craig Ryland Sponsors, Shereen Pimentel Tho mas Simpson Sponsor, Kevin Newbury Gra nt and Jacqui Smith Sponsors, Eric Taylor Deb ra Valentine and Jill Gardiner Sponsor, Holly Twyford Mar k Luis Villamar and Esther Milsted Sponsors, Kelly Kuo The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music Sponsor, Ana Karneža as a 2026 Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya Artist in the touring production of Happy End Mic hael Young and Debra Raskin Sponsors, Joseph Lattanzi Sponsors, Francesca Zambello Zam bello Gay Tribute Fund Sponsor, Artist-in-Residence Kevin Burdette Ann Ziff Sponsor, Michelle Mariposa
RESIDENT ARTIST AND APPRENTICESHIP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION SPONSORSHIPS The renowned Glimmerglass Resident Artists and Apprenticeship Programs bring exceptional emerging young singers, dancers, conductors, stage directors, coach/accompanists, production talent, craftspeople and arts administrators together for three months each season to study and gain professional experience in the creative and demanding atmosphere of the Festival. This year 44 Resident Artists and 55 Apprentices were selected from approximately 3,300 applicants, a testimony to the quality and reputation of these programs. Inspiration for these targeted donations began with endowment gifts from Allen and Judy Freedman, and through the establishment of the Rona Cader Rosenbaum Master Class Fund, which underwrites annual visits from prominent singers and directors who work with Resident Artists on a range of skills. The Glimmerglass Apprenticeship Program — previously known as the Summer Internship Program — has been expanded to include more built-in educational opportunities in addition to the experience Apprentices gain on the job. This expansion was made possible through the generosity of Denise Littlefield Sobel, who provided a multiyear match challenge in support of the program. Benefactors who designate their annual gifts in support of an individual Resident Artist or Apprentice personally get to know the artist or Apprentice they are supporting, following their careers, and developing relationships that can often last a lifetime. To learn more about these programs or sponsorships, please contact the Glimmerglass Development office at (607) 547-0700 ext. 238. GIFTS DESIGNATED IN SUPPORT OF THE RESIDENT ARTISTS PROGRAM We thank the following individuals for their generous contributions to underwrite this season’s Resident Artists Program or to sponsor an individual Resident Artist. GUARDIAN ANGELS (ENDOWMENT GIFTS) Allen R. and Judy Brick Freedman Rona Cader Rosenbaum Master Class Fund RESIDENT ARTISTS PROGRAM SUPPORT Th e Bagby Foundation For The Musical Arts, Inc. Frayda E. Lindemann Trust The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc. In Memory of H. Kwan Schmidt Vocal Arts The Tianaderrah Foundation Zambello Gay Tribute Fund INDIVIDUAL RESIDENT ARTIST SPONSORS An onymous Sponsor, Doug Clemons Eu genia Ames Sponsor, Sophia Hunt Ji m and Nancy Barton Sponsors, Kate Morton Mr . Georg O. Budenbender and Dr. Katherine Elwyn Sponsors, Xiao Xiao Pa tricia and John Chadwick Sponsors, Maeve Berry Sponsors, Peter Murphy
Al lan Dinkoff and Roseanna DeMaria Sponsors, Luke Poeppel Al len R. and Judy Brick Freedman Sponsors, Randy Ho Sponsors, Edward Sturm Ne llie and Robert Gipson Sponsors, Tongyao Li Sponsors, Thandolwethu Mamba Sponsors, Erik Nordstrom Sponsors, Laura Santamaria Sponsors, Samantha Sosa Sh erwin M. Goldman Sponsor, Woosik Nam Ma rilynn and John Hill Sponsors, Madison Manning Al lison and W. Keyes Hill-Edgar Sponsors, Dylan Cole Sponsors, Jude Emperado Th e Raymond Han and Paul Kellogg Foundation Sponsor, Lucy Evans Ri chard Kane and Gretchen McBeath Sponsors, Grace Heldridge Ann McChord Sponsor, Erin Alford Sponsor, Brian McCann Be linda and Stephen Kaye Sponsors, Luke Harnish Te d Kwan, In Memory of H. Kwan Sponsor, Joseph Park El izabeth R. Lemieux, Ph. D. Sponsor, Alex Smith Tho mas and Alison Lord Sponsors, Jaelynn Ricks
Th omas C. Ragan Sponsor, Megan Bush Sponsor, Jordan Spena Je rry and Marisabel Raymond Sponsors, Nicholas Huff Jo hn Ryland and Karen Craig Ryland Sponsors, Gregory Sliskovich Mi chael Sekus and Bianca Russo Sponsors, Noah Mond Th omas Simpson Sponsor, Carlos Ahrens Pa tsy Smith Sponsor, Viviana Aurelia Goodwin Te d Snowdon and Duffy Voilante Sponsors, William Raskin De bra Valentine and Jill Gardiner Sponsors, Yichen Xue Ma rk Luis Villamar and Esther Milsted Sponsors, Ben Wallace An ne Wade and Gil Hagan Sponsors, Ethan Clark Davis Sponsors, Sable Strout Re becca Fay Walsh Sponsor, Nia Spaulding Th eda White Sponsor, Kaileigh Riess Dr s. Hannelore Wilfert and Karl Moschner Sponsors, Lauren Torey Mi chael Young and Debra Raskin Sponsors, Jose Olivares Sponsors, Sam Krausz Je an Sincere Zambello Resident Artist Sponsor, E. A . Hobbs
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GIFTS DESIGNATED IN SUPPORT OF THE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM We thank the following individuals for their generous contributions to underwrite this season’s Glimmerglass Apprenticeship Program or to sponsor an individual apprentice. The Guild of Glimmerglass Festival Sponsor, 2026 Artistic Administration Apprentice Den ise Littlefield Sobel Sponsor, 2026 Glimmerglass Apprenticeship Program 2026 APPRENTICE SPONSORS Theodore H. Barth Foundation, Inc. Thomas and Christine D. Berk Clover M. Drinkwater David and Donna Farquhar Beth Matthews Susan and Rob Morris Margarita Sears Patricia M. Smith The Esther W. Spaulding Charitable Trust Alan and Linda Vincent Ellen Lentz Waldstein 2026 YOUTH PERFORMER SPONSORS Matthew Brown Greg Framke John Hill Elaine Hochberg Caroline Jackson Anne Kline Thomas and Alison Lord Cyril Moullée-Berteaux Chiara Seidl Ted Snowdon Debra Valentine Duffy Violante
GENERAL PROGRAM SUPPORT Anonymous Steven J. Ackerman Peter Aronson and Marie Landry Anne Waller Auerbach Abraham Axler and Jenna Rich Cynthia Bagby John Brewer Maria Lally Clark Jeffrey P. Cunard and Mariko Ikehara Laure Duval, MD Mike and Emily Elko Michele L. Finin Martha and Robert Fisher Renée Fuller Roe Goodman and Enriqueta Carrington Pe ter Grossman and Lawrence Timmins Charitable Fund at Our Fund Jean & Norbert Herzog Mary E. Hocken Richard S. Hoffman Heidi Holder Rev. Betsy Jay Janet Little Susan Lobel Taralee Morgan Susan and Rob Morris Marion Mossman Drs. Gregory Nagy and Olga Holly Davidson Darby O’Brien Rick and Cath Pollard Michael Presser Martin Ricciardi and Heidi Nicholson Peter W. Shea and Dr. Suzan Smith Gretchen Sorin Carmel Ann Sperti Alexandra Subbarao F. Elaine Williams Hannah Wunsch Joanne Jablow Yunich and Robert H. Yunich
GIFTS IN-KIND We gratefully acknowledge the following individuals, organizations and businesses, who donated goods, time, talent or services over the past year. Contributions range from furnishings for seasonal staff residences, to books, vehicles, professional services, hosting of staff or artists during business travel, the donation of performances at gatherings and more. A Rose is a Rose Florist Rob Ainsley American Food & Vending Anthony and Ann Aviles Joan Desens and Simon Carr-Ellison Russell Gilbert Glimmerglass Medical & Wellness, LLC. Allison Hill-Edgar Norma Meacham of Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna LLP Marty Ricciardi of Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna LLP Primo Brands Amanda Rodd Karen Shafer Tom Watson Dustin Z West Law Office of Douglas H. Zamelis
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GALA
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The Glimmerglass Festival wants to thank all who attended and generously supported our Annual Spring Gala in New York City. Your gracious contributions directly sustain our Resident Artists, Apprenticeship, and Youth Opera programs, making a meaningful impact on the next generation of artists.
SPECIAL EVENTS HOSTS AND ARTISTS Thank you to the following artists, institutions and friends who donated services for our Gala or lectures, or performed at or hosted patron events over the past year. Rob Ainsley and Micah Waldstein Amanda Batista Kevin Burdette Katrina F.C. Cary Clark Art Institute Century Club of Syracuse Joseph Colaneri Cooperstown Country Club Joan Desens Gregory Feldmann Eric Sean Fogel Fort Orange Club Keely Futterer Givergy The Guild of the Glimmerglass Festival Denyce Graves Andrea Grant
Allison and W. Keyes Hill-Edgar Shyheim Selvan Hinnant Hudson Hall Sophia Hunt Martin Kagan Madison Manning Jamie McDonald Linn Cary Mehta Ruotao Mao The Metropolitan Club Noah Mond Munson National Arts Club Onteora Club Pa nara Theater at Rochester Institute of Technology Shereen Pimentel
Jonathan Pierce Rhodes Kaileigh Riess Lisa Marie Rogali Kelley Rourke John Ryland László R. Seress and Shuting Yan Retired Men’s Association of Greenwich Samantha Sosa Seagle Festival Springfield Center Community Center The Strand Truman Tinius Lauren Torey Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Universal Preservation Hall Dustin Z West
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TRIBUTES
Following are tributes received from May 1, 2025 to June 15, 2026. IN HONOR OF GRETCHEN NICHOLAS Jeffrey and Mary Dale Allen IN HONOR OF ROB AINSLEY The Cosmopolitan Club Jack Firestone and Firestone Family Fund Nicole Alfandre Halbreiner IN HONOR OF ROB AINSLEY AND MICAH WALDSTEIN Virginia McGehee Friend Elsie and Thom Rhodes IN HONOR OF ANDREW Brigitte and Lou Priem IN HONOR OF DR. JEFF BAILEY Barbara H. Mulhern IN HONOR OF LAUREN BAILEY Nancy and Scott Bailey IN HONOR OF PATRICIA WALSH CHADWICK Camilla Galluzzo IN HONOR OF MAESTRO JOSEPH COLANERI Barbara Glauber Michael Presser Paulette and Julian Rackow
IN HONOR OF TOM RAGAN Jane Garmey
IN HONOR OF LISA LAWRENCE & ROSS RUNDELL Joe Adams and Mechelle Lawrence Adams
IN HONOR OF THE SECOND VIOLIN SECTION Martin Ricciardi and Heidi Nicholson
IN HONOR OF NENA DONOVAN LEVINE Anonymous
IN HONOR OF JOE AND JEAN SEROKA Anonymous
IN HONOR OF ANDREA LYONS Daniel Egan and Kate Glasner The Glimmerglass Festival Production Staff William and Cynthia Goertemoeller Th e Raymond Han and Paul Kellogg Foundation Christine McDonald Kimberly Tucker
IN HONOR OF JEAN SEROKA Dorothy Lawson
IN HONOR OF ANDREA LYONS AND BECKY GILL Margarita Sears IN HONOR OF ANDREA LYONS, ABBY RODD, JOEL MORAIN, KELLEY ROURKE Faith E. Gay and Francesca Zambello IN HONOR OF JOEL MORAIN Mary Margaret Kuhn
IN HONOR OF ABBY KREH GIBSON Steven Zerby and Joanne Tobey
IN HONOR OF BARBARA MULHERN Cindy D’Ambrosio and John Ianacone Joan Desens and Simon Carr-Ellison Frank Farmer and Frank Kolbert Martha Frey and Andrew Baugnet Bonnie and Scott Harrison Margaret Huff Susan J. Huxtable and Joseph Novitski Mark Lamos and Jerry Jones Harry and Ellen Levine Maureen Fitzgerald Murray Catherine and Donald Raddatz Meryl A . Robertson Alix Ross and Ted Kastner Thomas Simpson Lee Stockwell
IN HONOR OF GLIMMERGLASS YOUTH OPERA Anonymous
IN HONOR OF BARBARA MULHERN’S 100TH BIRTHDAY Nicholas G. Russell
IN HONOR OF SASHA GLINSKI AND REYA MERTZ Susan Rosengrant and Nancy Ryan
IN HONOR OF GRETCHEN NICHOLAS Jeffrey and Mary Dale Allen
IN HONOR OF GEMMA HALL Ms. Barbara Porter
IN HONOR OF ERIC OWENS Drs. Hueldine Webb and Lester W. Blair
IN HONOR OF ALLISON HILL-EDGAR Susie and Eric Knight
IN HONOR OF SIX DECADES OF THE PHAROAH Anonymous
IN HONOR OF JOAN DESENS William Goodenough and Kelsey Gallagher IN HONOR OF PETER DUCHIN The Marc Haas Foundation Wendy Ann Keys The Lufkin Family Foundation Trust Barbara H. Mulhern IN HONOR OF ELIZABETH EVEILLARD Ann and William Lieff
IN HONOR OF ANTOINETTE KUZMINSKI Deb and Jim Dalton
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IN HONOR OF BARBARA LACORTE Dr. Mary Ann Luciano
IN HONOR OF GIOVANNI PRIOLA Linda Delfs
IN HONOR OF TOM SIMPSON Jason Karlawish, MD and John Bruza, MD Dinah Nissen and Elizabeth Apelles IN HONOR OF TED SNOWDON Susie Snowdon IN HONOR OF TED SNOWDON AND DUFFY VIOLANTE Irene R. Miller IN HONOR OF JEAN AND GENE STARK Laura Steinberg Frohman IN HONOR OF LYNDSAY WERKING-YIP Kel Haney Consulting IN HONOR OF ELLEN STEINBAUM Jim Dalsimer and Ellen Steinbaum IN HONOR OF VIC AND DONNA SWARTZ Neil Bermel IN HONOR OF GENE THAW The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation IN HONOR OF MICHAEL YOUNG Stephen and Judy Bernstein Bunzl Debórah Dwork and Ken Marek Kathleen Roberts and Howard Clyman David and Melanie Samuels Vivien and Michael Shelanski IN HONOR OF MICHAEL YOUNG AND DEBRA RASKIN Nina Brodsky and Alan Kleinman Kendall Hubert IN HONOR OF FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO AND FAITH GAY Noel Rubinton and Amy Cohen
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THE ZAMBELLO GAY TRIBUTE FUND In honor of Faith E. Gay and Francesca Zambello, The Zambello Gay Tribute Fund was established in 2022 and will be used to underwrite Artists-in-Residence (a position created by Francesca during her tenure), along with educational and community programming at The Glimmerglass Festival for seasons to come. To make a gift to this ongoing Fund, please contact Lyndsay Werking-Yip, Director of Development, at (607) 547-0700 x238. Anonymous (3) Carol Affourtit Kathryn Allen Amica Insurance Dennis Banks Felicia H. Blum Boss Landscape LLC Elaine C. and Marc Bresee Van Broughton Ramsey and Robert Nelson Joan Desens and Simon Carr-Ellison Patricia Carrier Patricia and John Chadwick Linda Chesis and John Guiton Dianne Kay and Lawrence J. Ciano Joseph and Susan Colaneri Community Foundation of Otsego County Wendy Curtis Deb and Jim Dalton Anna and Paul D’Ambrosio Hans and Karin de Waal Mr. and Mrs. Peter Albin Deysenroth Gaylord and Nicole Dillingham Rita Emanuel and John Anagnost Elizabeth M. and Jean-Marie R. Eveillard Frank Farmer and Frank Kolbert Drs. Jane A . Feisthamel and Mary Margaret Snyder The Fernleigh Foundation First Presbyterian Church Cooperstown Faith E. Gay and Francesca Zambello Nellie and Robert Gipson The Glimmerglass Festival Production Staff Christine Goerke Maria JR Goncalves Pati and Kevin Grady Robert and Patricia Hanft Allison and W. Keyes Hill-Edgar Tim and Elizabeth Horvath Jim and Cathy Howarth Celeste Johns and Chris Kjolhede Jeff and Karen Katz Patricia Kavanagh and James Grant
Hon. and Mrs. M. Langhorne Keith Marion King Maureen Kuhn and Caralee Carney Brent and Mary Leonard/Carefree Gardens Gregory Long and Scott Newman David and Millie McCoy Sage Mehta and Michael Robinson Michael and Cory Moffat Tom Morgan and Erna Morgan McReynolds Katharine Muir and Kenneth Witty Alan and Linda Nelson and Family Janet Nelson M. Anne O’Connell Michael Olding and Chris Morrison Trevor Potter and Dana Westring Robert and Peggy Poulson Thomas C. Ragan Elsie and Thom Rhodes Dr. and Mrs. William Richtsmeier Rotary Club of Cooperstown Beth Sapery and Rosita Sarnoff Senator and Mrs. James L . Seward Al bert H. Shaheen Memorial Fund at The Community Foundation of Herkimer & Oneida Counties Dr. Larry R. Shannon II and Mrs. Candice Shannon Simple Integrity LLC Patsy Smith Ted Snowdon and Duffy Violante Eugene and Jean Stark Ken and Carol Steigelman Richard Sternberg Ellen Tillapaugh and Gary Kuch L .M. Townsend Catering Debra A . Valentine and Jill V. Gardiner We Energies Foundation John Webb and Nelson Mondaca Mr. and Mrs. William Weldon III Dr. F. Todd and Laura Wetzel Michael Young and Debra Raskin Douglas and Cheryl Zamelis
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MEMORIALS Following are memorials received from May 1, 2025 to June 15, 2026. IN MEMORY OF JANET BAIR-ROST Alicia Bair
IN MEMORY OF CLARK A . ELLIOTT Priscilla Jordan Elliott
IN MEMORY OF STEPHEN VERNE BALDWIN Carmel Ann Sperti, Elizabeth McCollum
IN MEMORY OF DON AND MARY ELLEN FENNER The family of Don and Mary Ellen Fenner Peter and Jennifer Fenner Irene White
IN MEMORY OF ROBERT BIEMER Linda Biemer IN MEMORY OF MARGARET A. BURKE, MD Marian Burke IN MEMORY OF MARJORIE CARSON AND SUSAN RATHBUN The Andersen Family IN MEMORY OF ENRICO CARUSO Anonymous IN MEMORY OF KATHERINE F.C. CARY Katrina F.C. Cary and Linn Cary Mehta IN MEMORY OF JOHN (PETE) CLARK, JR. Maria Lally Clark IN MEMORY OF JOHN CONKLIN Donald Clinton and Karen Wilkin Katie Koch Code Joan Desens and Simon Carr-Ellison Suzan D. Friedlander Anne C. Gatling The Glimmerglass Festival Production Staff Barbara H. Mulhern Charles E. Pannaci Maggie Raywood Kelley Rourke IN MEMORY OF AN NE MCBRIDE CURTIS Michael Cynamon IN MEMORY OF CAROL SAVAGE DAVIS Amanda Savage Mahoney IN MEMORY OF EDWARD DAVIS Paul Wolfson IN MEMORY OF AUNT DEE Tom and Christian Velasquez Watson IN MEMORY OF MARY KAY DEVITA Vincent T. DeVita MD IN MEMORY OF MARY GRACE DILIBERTO John G. DiLiberto IN MEMORY OF KATHRYN DONAGHY Anonymous IN MEMORY OF EDYTHE THURBER DONOVAN Nena Donovan Levine IN MEMORY OF MARY DUNKLE Joan Desens and Simon Carr-Ellison William and Cynthia Goertemoeller The Guild of the Glimmerglass Festival Corinne M. Plummer Elsie and Thom Rhodes Angie Richards Thomas Simpson IN MEMORY OF SHIRLEY BREGER EITCHES Edward Eitches
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IN MEMORY OF TONY AND JANET FIORI Joan Fiori Blanchfield IN MEMORY OF FRANCES FITZGERALD Philomena Cerone IN MEMORY OF JOAN NA FRANK Dean Davis IN MEMORY OF DR. ROBERT L . AND MARY LOU FRIEDLANDER Suzan D. Friedlander; Rebecca L . Friedlander IN MEMORY OF SHEP J. FRIEDMAN Leslie Friedman IN MEMORY OF ANTONIO (TONY) FROYO Patricia Froyo-McCarty and Michael McCarty IN MEMORY OF ANNA GLASS Naomi Glass IN MEMORY OF ANN GREENBERG John Ianacone and Cynthia D’Ambrosio IN MEMORY OF POLLY W. GUTH Bob and Virginia Montgomery IN MEMORY OF K. WILLIAM HARTER Miriam Radakovich IN MEMORY OF “E” AND MAC HARVEY Elizabeth Harvey IN MEMORY OF DONALD M. HENLEY Charles E. Pannaci IN MEMORY OF EUGENE DAVID HILL Heidi Holder IN MEMORY OF BEVERLY G. HIMELSTEIN Michael J. Moran IN MEMORY OF ALFRED HUBAY Dr. and Mrs. George Kafka IN MEMORY OF JOYCE MCCOY HUPPER Craig and Susan Hupper IN MEMORY OF GISELA JAKUBOWSKI Michael Jakubowski IN MEMORY OF REGINIA JANES Christine McDonald IN MEMORY OF SUSIE KAPLAN L . Frederick Kaplan IN MEMORY OF PAUL KELLOGG Lou Allstadt and Melinda Hardin Margaret Smedes Poyner Matthew Price and Veerle Daenen IN MEMORY OF FH KULHAWY Gloria Kulhawy
IN MEMORY OF DR. DAN LARKIN Grace E. Larkin
IN MEMORY OF PAUL R. OSTERMAN Susan M. O’Neil
IN MEMORY OF LOUIS AND HELEN LASAGNA Mosie Lasagna
IN MEMORY OF JIM OWENS Anonymous
IN MEMORY OF ROSLYN AND IRVING LEVINE Rona Lucas
IN MEMORY OF ANNE MARIE PENNOCK Ann Geisendorfer
IN MEMORY OF LORENZO LOBELIA Zorrow Lobel, Susan Lobel, Lorenzo Lobelia
IN MEMORY OF MAESTRO STEWART ROBERTSON Ruth Berry David and Donna Farquhar Lisa Heilman- Cozzalio
IN MEMORY OF DEBORAH LONCTO ULRICH Fred W. Ulrich IN MEMORY OF PETER MACRIS AND CHUCK SCHNEIDER David and Donna Farquhar IN MEMORY OF ANNE C. MAIER Martha Maier IN MEMORY OF MICHELLE MARTINO Abby Kreh Gibson IN MEMORY OF DINAH MATTHERS H. Louise Amick David and Donna Farquhar IN MEMORY OF MARK MCCULLOUGH James Matthew Bay Candace and Charles Burton Kevin and Amy Coogan Renée Fuller The Glimmerglass Festival Production Staff Kelley Rourke IN MEMORY OF ERNA MORGAN MCREYNOLDS Joan Desens and Simon Carr-Ellison Arnold Drogen and Adena Miller Sherpa Allen R . and Judy Brick Freedman Jane and Joe Homburger Thomas Simpson IN MEMORY OF FLORENCE MILANO Carol A . Smith IN MEMORY OF JAMES MITCHELL Martha Mitchell IN MEMORY OF DR. JOHN H. MORAN Mary Moran and Jordan Kerber IN MEMORY OF GRETCHEN R. NICHOLAS Jeffrey and Mary Dale Allen IN MEMORY OF BILL OLIVER Ruth Berry Suzan D. Friedlander Barbara H. Mulhern Charles E. Pannaci Kelley Rourke IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM OLIVER Jane Forbes Clark Carol S. Scheele Thomas Simpson
IN MEMORY OF ROBIN RUBINSTEIN AND SANDRA HANDLER Donald Clinton and Karen Wilkin John Muenter IN MEMORY OF PEGGY SAVLOV AND ALL THE HAPPY OPERA CAMPERS Daniel M. Meyers IN MEMORY OF CHARLES SCHNEIDER William and Cynthia Goertemoeller IN MEMORY OF DAVID SCHWEIZER Kelley Rourke IN MEMORY OF CLARE D. SCOTT Susan Clare Scott IN MEMORY OF MARIAN SCOTT Kathleen M. Scott IN MEMORY OF JEAN SEROKA Abby Kreh Gibson IN MEMORY OF JEAN AND JOE SEROKA Kathryn Allen IN MEMORY OF CONRAD C. SHECK Conrad L . Sheck IN MEMORY OF DORIS SHIELDS Ms. Patricia Galea IN MEMORY OF MARY MCAMIS SMITH Katrina Smith IN MEMORY OF MR. H. WILLIAM SMITH JR., FORMER GLIMMERGLASS TRUSTEE Patricia M. Smith IN MEMORY OF STEPHEN SONDHEIM William Bissell IN MEMORY OF VITO TODISCO Victor Todisco IN MEMORY OF NANCY WALLER Anne Waller Auerbach IN MEMORY OF MICHAEL WILLIS David Shengold IN MEMORY OF FRANK WYSZOMIRSKI Margaret Wyszomirski
IN MEMORY OF BILL OLIVER AND MICHAEL WILLIS Joan Desens and Simon Carr-Ellison
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AREA RESOURCE GUIDE
When The Glimmerglass Festival began, it was a group of community members who wanted to bring an elevated arts and cultural experience to the Central New York area, and that principle still guides us today. This company’s success would not be possible without the support of our community. A core value of our mission states, “Collaborate with regional organizations, schools, and businesses to enhance life in Central New York.” While you luxuriate in all that our season and our campus have to offer, please also explore other businesses and organizations in our area that we consider a part of the Glimmerglass Community, many of whom have ads listed in this Program Book. ACCOMMODATION Aa lsmeer Motel & Cottages on the Lake Bayside Inn & Marina Edgefield Bed & Breakfast Gr and Colonial Bed and Breakfast Hatch’s Landing Hawk Circle Hickory Grove Motor Inn KC’s Corner Knest Kuzminski House Lake ‘N Pines* Limestone Mansion Modern Cottage The Otesaga Resort Hotel The White House Inn*
DINING Bocca Osteria Brewery Ommegang Brimstone Bakery Coffee & Crumb Cafe* Convenience Corner Fenimore’s Table Fl y Creek Cider Mill & Orchard The Hawkeye Bar & Grill The Horned Dorset Th e Lake House Restaurant & Lodge Montezuma Winery Origins Cafe Spurbeck’s Grocery Stagecoach Coffee*
ATTRACTION 25 Main Collective Arkell Museum Art Garage Cooperstown Art Association Fenimore Art Museum* Fe nimore Farm and Country Village* Hyde Hall Munson The Smithy
SHOPPING/SERVICES Azure Arts Cooperstown Coworks* Cooperstown Natural Foods* Farm Credit East* The Flower Room Gl immerglass Move Managers James Jordan Associates Mohican Flowers* Neighbors Insurance Rudy’s Wine & Liquor* Willis Monie Books
Looking for more? The Glimmerglass Festival is a member of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce, where you can find over a hundred businesses in the local area. To advertise with the Festival, email advertising@glimmerglass.org.
*indicates members of our Business Partner Program and is a featured organization throughout our campus.
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PROJEU N I T Y CT M
July 2–16
at The Colonial Theatre WITH
SE RUDETTSHK
BONNIE MILLIGAN July 11 • 7PM
NORM LEWIS August 8 • 7PM
America’s Prize Winning Musical
music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards book by Peter Stone
LILLIAS WHITE August 22 • 7PM
directed by David Adkins
music direction by Erin White choreography by Kathy Jo Grover
`62 Center for Theatre and Dance 1000 Main Street, Williamstown, MA 01267
July 22–August 23
July 31–August 16
The Larry Vaber Stage
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The Alfred F. Hubay Box Office at the theater opens 90 minutes before performances and closes after intermission. For ticket information, call (607) 547-2255. The Audience Services Desk, located on the Paul Kellogg Terrace at the front of the theater, opens 90 minutes prior to curtain and remains open through each performance. We welcome your comments and suggestions, and we are happy to answer your questions. The Marketplace, adjacent to the theater, is open two hours before curtain and during intermission; wine, beer, nonalcoholic beverages, specialty wraps, sandwiches, salads, and desserts are available. The gift shop opens two hours before all performances and remains open through the end of all shows; it is also open between performances on Saturdays.
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Restrooms are located between the Marketplace and the Pavilion. Gender diversity is welcomed here. All are encouraged to use the bathroom that best reflects their gender identity or expression.
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Orchestra Level Rows A-H and Lower Boxes: exit via the doors near the stage. Rows J-N, Rows AA-FF, and Special Seating: exit via the main doors at the rear of the theater. Balcony Level Rows A-E (Seats 17-31), Rows F-G (Seats 1-15) and Upper Box Right: exit via the door near the stage on the right. Rows A-E (Seats 18-32), Rows F-G (Seats 2-16) and Upper Box Left: exit via the door near the stage on the aisle. Rows A-F (Seats 1-17, 2-18, and 101-116): exit via the main staircases near the rear of the theater. Once outside the theater, please move away from the building and await further instructions from the ushers.
CREDITS Scenery and Props for Oklahoma!, Madame Butterfly, Così, Robin Hood, Happy End, and Ellis Island were constructed by the Glimmerglass Festival Scene Shop. Select Props for Fellow Travelers were constructed by the Glimmerglass Festival Scene Shop. Scenery and select Props for Fellow Travelers were provided by Up Until Now Collective. Special thanks to Brian Smith of Pacemaker Steel & Piping Company and Mike George of George Lumber for scenic support. Costumes for Oklahoma! were built by the Glimmerglass Festival Costume Shop, Costume Works Inc, Ellen Bredehoft, Ellen Danforth, Washington National Opera Costume Shop, The Costume Shop, LLC, and Molly Klemm. Costumes for Madame Butterfly were built by the Glimmerglass Festival Costume Shop and Dawson Tailors. Costumes for Così were built by the Glimmerglass Festival Costume Shop. Mascots for Così were built by Randy Carfagno Productions. Costumes for Fellow Travelers were built by the Glimmerglass Festival Costume Shop, Amy Micallef, and Neno Russell. Costumes for Robin Hood were built by the Glimmerglass Festival Costume Shop. Projected Titles for Fellow Travelers courtesy of Cincinnati Opera. Season lighting equipment provided by Christie Lites, New York, NY. Workplace health and safety training programs provided by HealthWorks Occupational Health Services, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY; Otsego County Emergency Services, Cooperstown, NY; National Safety Compliance, American Heart Association, and VelocityEHS. Rehearsal facilities have been made available by Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY; Springfield Center Community Center, Springfield Center, NY; Grace Episcopal Church, Cherry Valley; St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Springfield Center, NY. AGNES DE MILLE (1905-1993) Although Agnes de Mille seemed destined to perform on Broadway, since her paternal grandfather, father, and uncle, Cecil B. de Mille, were all successful writers and actors involved in the theater, she avoided the easy path to the Great White Way. Instead, she struggled in obscurity and poverty, courageously pursuing a career as a dancer and choreographer. When her amazing talent was finally recognized, and she made her way to the stage, she transformed the world of musical comedy forever. De Mille was born in Harlem in 1905, but moved with her family to Hollywood when she was still a young girl. Always very dramatic, de Mille and her sister gave piano recitals and staged drama productions for their friends, but her parents refused to let her take dancing lessons. It was widely believed in those days that dancers were slightly disreputable. She did have the opportunity to see a dance performance by Anna Pavlova. The performance inspired in young Agnes the desire to become a famous dancer. When de Mille’s sister’s arches in her feet fell, her doctor recommended that she take dancing lessons. Agnes convinced her parents to allow her to do the same, but recalled later that she was considered “a perfectly rotten dancer.” A professor at UCLA told her that she was too fat to become a dancer, but commended her on her acting ability. This did not dissuade de Mille in the least. Upon graduating from UCLA, she moved to New York, where she struggled to make a living as a dancer. Her first real job came when she
was hired as a dancer-choreographer in Christopher Morley’s revival of the 19th-century melodrama The Black Crook in Hoboken. In 1932, de Mille moved to London, where she received extensive dance training at Madame Marie Rambert’s Ballet Club. Here, she studied with and was influenced by fledgling choreographers, including Fredrick Ashton and Anthony Tudor, who would join her later in her efforts to revolutionize the ballet and dance worlds. Her experience at the Ballet Club marked one of the most significant phases of her training. Throughout the 1930s, de Mille returned to the United States to take odd jobs. She danced in her uncle’s staging of Cleopatra in 1934, and she choreographed for the Leslie Howard/Norma Shearer film version of Romeo and Juliet in 1936. Most of her time, however, was spent battling poverty in London while trying to become an original choreographer. De Mille’s career made a change for the better in the late 1930s and 1940s. In 1939, she was invited to join the American Ballet Theatre’s opening season. Here, she created her first ballet, Black Ritual, in 1940. This ballet became the first ever to use black dancers. In 1942, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, a company that came to the United States because of World War II, invited de Mille to choreograph a ballet for their repertory. She created Rodeo, a highly energetic work with a uniquely American spirit that captivated its opening-night audience, earning 22 curtain calls. One critic called it “refreshing and as American as Mark Twain.” Also in 1942, de Mille choreographed her ballet, Three Virgins and a Devil, for the American Ballet Theater. The following year, she joined Rodgers & Hammerstein to create the triumphant Oklahoma!, a musical that revolutionized the art form by integrating its choreographic numbers into the plot in a way not done before. De Mille went on to choreograph some of the biggest Broadway hits in the 1940s and 1950s, such as One Touch Of Venus in 1943, Carousel in 1945, Brigadoon in 1947, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1949, and Paint Your Wagon in 1951. She also furthered her innovative style with Tally-Ho in 1944 and Fall River Legend, a haunting version of the Lizzie Borden axe murder case, in 1948. Throughout the 1950s, de Mille embarked on a variety of endeavors. In 1952, she published the first volume of her autobiography, Dance to the Piper. The following year, she founded the Agnes de Mille Theater and toured with them in 126 cities from 1953 through 1954. In 1955, she choreographed the numbers for a film version of Oklahoma!. She also made her way to the world of television when she narrated and directed two hour-long programs on dance for the Omnibus series the very next year. De Mille published the second volume of her autobiography, And Promenade Home, and choreographed the musical Goldilocks, both in 1958. In 1959, she supplied the dances for the musical Juno. During the 1960s, de Mille continued to produce many memorable ballets, including The Bitter Weird (1962), The Wind In The Mountains (1965), and The Golden Age (1967). She also found time to publish several more dance books, such as To a Young Dancer (1962), The Book of the Dance (1963), and Lizzie Borden: A Dance of Death (1968). From 1973 to 1974, the tireless de Mille founded and toured with the Agnes de Mille Heritage Dance Theater. She suffered a debilitating stroke in 1975, but fought her way back to health in time to receive the Handel Medallion, New York’s highest award for achievement in the arts, in 1976. In 1979, she helped stage a revival of Oklahoma!, and she captivated television viewers with her lecture on the history of American dance in Conversations About the Dance, a PBS program that included performances by the Joffrey Ballet. She also published her tenth book,
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American Dances, an intriguing and vivid account of how the different varieties of dance have grown and developed in the United States. De Mille remained very actively involved in artistic endeavors until her death in 1993. OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II (1895-1960) Oscar Hammerstein II was born on July 12, 1895, in New York City. His father, William, was a theater manager and, for many years, director of Hammerstein’s Victoria, the most popular vaudeville theater of its day. His uncle, Arthur Hammerstein, was a successful Broadway producer, and his grandfather, Oscar Hammerstein, was a famous opera impresario. Hammerstein started writing lyrics for the Columbia University varsity shows while studying law. His earliest works included musical comedies written with a Columbia undergraduate seven years his junior named Richard Rodgers. (The 1920 varsity show, Fly With Me, was composed by Rodgers with lyrics by both Hammerstein and a fellow classmate of his named Lorenz Hart.) Withdrawing from Columbia Law School after his second year to pursue a career in theater, Hammerstein took a job with his uncle as an assistant stage manager. In 1919, Hammerstein’s first play, The Light, was produced by his Uncle Arthur; it ran for four performances. Undaunted, he continued to write both lyrics and librettos, principally with Otto Harbach as his collaborating author. His first success, with Harbach, Vincent Youmans, and Herbert Stothart, was Wildflower in 1923. Hammerstein found his niche with some of the greatest composers of his day, breathing new life into the moribund artform of operetta with such classics as Rose-Marie (music by Rudolf Friml), The Desert Song (Sigmund Romberg), The New Moon (Romberg), and Song of the Flame (George Gershwin). With Jerome Kern, Hammerstein wrote eight musicals, including Sweet Adeline, Music in the Air, and their masterwork, Show Boat. His last musical before embarking on an exclusive partnership with Richard Rodgers was Carmen Jones, the highly acclaimed 1943 allblack revision of Georges Bizet’s tragic opera Carmen. During the years that Hammerstein was redefining the terms of operetta, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart were challenging the accepted norms of musical comedy with shows that set new standards for wit, sophistication, and innovation. The Rodgers & Hammerstein partnership began with Oklahoma! (1943). Like Hammerstein’s Show Boat and Rodgers & Hart’s Pal Joey, the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was a groundbreaking milestone, blending musical comedy and operetta into a whole new genre — the musical play. Oklahoma! was also the start of the most successful partnership in Broadway history and was followed by Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King And I, Me And Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music. Rodgers & Hammerstein wrote one musical specifically for the big screen — State Fair — and one for television — Cinderella. Collectively, their musicals have garnered dozens of awards including: Pulitzer Prizes; Tonys, Oscars, Emmys, and Grammys; and Drama Desk, Drama Critics’ Circle, Outer Critics’ Circle, Laurence Olivier, and Evening Standard Awards. As producers, Rodgers & Hammerstein presented plays, musicals, and revivals, including John van Druten’s I Remember Mama, Anita Loos’ Happy Birthday, Irving Berlin’s blockbuster Annie Get Your Gun, the national tour of Show Boat (1947-49) and six of their own stage musicals (from the Pulitzer-winning South Pacific in 1949 to the Tony-winning The Sound of Music ten years later). They also produced the motion picture version of Oklahoma! and founded their own music publishing firm, Williamson Music (because both their fathers were named William). Oscar Hammerstein II was a member of the board of directors of many professional organizations, including the Dramatists Guild and the Screen Writers’ Guild. He received many personal honors and awards, including
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five honorary degrees, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Academy Awards, and five Tony Awards. His last musical was The Sound of Music, written with Richard Rodgers in 1959; his last song was “Edelweiss,” written for that musical during its Boston tryout. Oscar Hammerstein II died at his farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, on the morning of August 23, 1960. In 1995, Hammerstein’s centennial was celebrated worldwide with commemorative recordings, books, concerts, and an award-winning PBS special, Some Enchanted Evening. The ultimate tribute came the following season, when Oscar Hammerstein II had three musicals playing on Broadway simultaneously: Show Boat (1995 Tony Award winner, Best Musical Revival); The King and I (1996 Tony Award winner, Best Musical Revival); and State Fair (1996 Tony Award nominee for Best Score.)”The Careful Dreamer,” a Time Magazine cover story on Oscar Hammerstein II, was published on October 20, 1947. A biography, Getting to Know Him by Hugh Fordin, was first published by Random House in 1977. A revised edition of Hammerstein’s Lyrics, edited by his son William Hammerstein and containing an introductory essay by the lyricist, plus a preface by his protege Stephen Sondheim, was published by Hal Leonard Publishing in 1985. The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2008. THOMAS MALLON’s eleven books of fiction include Henry and Clara, Fellow Travelers, Watergate (a Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award) and, most recently, Up With the Sun. He has also written volumes of nonfiction about plagiarism (Stolen Words), diaries (A Book of One’s Own), letters (Yours Ever), and the Kennedy assassination (Mrs. Paine’s Garage), as well as two books of essays (Rockets and Rodeos and In Fact). His work appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and other publications. He received his Ph. D. in English and American Literature from Harvard University and taught for a number of years at Vassar College. His honors include Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, the National Book Critics Circle citation for reviewing, and the Vursell prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, for distinguished prose style. He has been literary editor of Gentlemen’s Quarterly and deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and in 2012, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the George Washington University and lives in Washington, D.C. LYNN RIGGS (1899-1954) Lynn Riggs was the author of Green Grow the Lilacs, originally produced by the Theatre Guild in 1931 and later used by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II as the basis for their musical Oklahoma!. The original play had a New York run of 64 performances, while its musical adaptation had an original Broadway run of 2,202 performances. Riggs’ first play to receive a New York production was The Big Lake, which was presented by the American Laboratory Theatre. As a result, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent a year in France, where he wrote Lilacs. Born in Claremore, Oklahoma, Riggs studied for three years at the University of Oklahoma. As a youth, he worked various jobs, including singing in a musical film house. He later moved to New York, where he worked as a proofreader and clerked for Macy’s department store and the American Express Company. Riggs’ other plays include The Lonesome West, The Cream in The Well, Laughter From A Cloud, Russet Mantle, and Borned In Texas. RICHARD RODGERS (1902-1979) Richard Rodgers’ contribution to the musical theater of his day was extraordinary, and his influence on the musical theater of today and tomorrow is legendary. His career spanned more than six decades, his hits ranging from the silver screens of Hollywood to the bright lights of Broadway, London, and beyond. He was
the recipient of countless awards, including Pulitzers, Tonys, Oscars, Grammys, and Emmys. He wrote more than 900 published songs and 40 Broadway musicals. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) wrote their first shows together when both were still students attending Columbia University. Their breakthrough came with the score for a 1925 charity show, The Garrick Gaieties, which introduced the classic valentine to their hometown, “Manhattan.” Over the next five years, they wrote 15 musical comedies for Broadway and London’s West End before relocating to Hollywood in 1930 where they contributed songs and wrote the scores for several movie musicals, most notably Love Me Tonight, starring Maurice Chevalier. In 1935, they returned to New York to write the score for Billy Rose’s circus musical Jumbo, launching a golden era that included On Your Toes, Babes In Arms, I’d Rather Be Right, I Married An Angel, The Boys From Syracuse, Too Many Girls, Higher And Higher, Pal Joey, and By Jupiter. In 1943 the partnership disbanded temporarily when Rodgers collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein II on Oklahoma!, but it resumed with a revision of their 1927 hit A Connecticut Yankee, which opened on November 17, 1943 – less than a week before Lorenz Hart’s death. For the next two decades, Richard Rodgers collaborated exclusively with Oscar Hammerstein II on such musicals as Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King And I, Pipe Dream, and The Sound of Music. Collectively, their musicals have garnered dozens of awards, including Pulitzer Prizes, Tonys, Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, Drama Desk, Drama Critics’ Circle, Outer Critics’ Circle, Laurence Olivier, and Evening Standard Awards. After Hammerstein’s death in 1960, Rodgers continued to write for the musical stage, including No Strings, and collaborations with Martin Charnin, Stephen Sondheim, and Sheldon Harnick. His fortieth and final Broadway musical, I Remember Mama, opened on Broadway less than eight months before his death on December 30, 1979.
In 2003, Zinsmeyer returned to the arts and entertainment industry, with a particular focus on the development and production of independent films. Later that year, he would be awarded an Outstanding Community Service Award by the Stonewall Democratic Club for his work in bringing gay and lesbian representation to the silver screen. Zinsmeyer’s film credits include Latter Days (2003), Adam and Steve (2005), Naked Boys Singing! (2007), and The Deception (2012). Latter Days, which featured Jacqueline Bisset, Mary Kay Place, and Joseph GordonLevitt, is widely hailed as one of the most important gay-themed films of the last decade. In 2015, the film was selected for archiving by the Library of Congress, along with five other gay-themed films. Much of Zinsmeyer’s recent efforts have focused on the development of Fellow Travelers, a new opera based on the novel of the same name by renowned author Thomas Mallon. The opera, which Zinsmeyer conceived, developed, and commissioned, had its world premiere in June 2016 by the nationally acclaimed Cincinnati Opera. A touching gay love story set amidst the “lavender scare” of the McCarthy era; Fellow Travelers was heralded by such respected media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, NPR Weekend Edition, and Opera News. The New York Times also recently lauded the opera as among “The Best Classical Music of 2016”. Now residing in Santa Fe, NM, G. Sterling Zinsmeyer remains passionate and focused on developing compelling independent works across all areas of the arts. PROGRAM BOOK Edited by Kira DeLanoy, with support from the Glimmerglass Communications Team and others. Design by Haeg Design. Cover photo by Brent DeLanoy. Printed by Benchmark Printing, Inc.
The Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway was renamed in his honor, and Rodgers and Hart were each commemorated on a US postage stamp at the end of the last century. G. STERLING ZINSMEYER A heralded veteran in the field of film and theatrical production, G. Sterling Zinsmeyer brings a diverse breadth of experience to his creative partners and clients. In addition to his experience producing independent films over the last decade, Zinsmeyer has served in numerous leadership roles as a creative consultant to entities in all areas of the arts and education. A native of San Antonio, TX, Zinsmeyer went on to attend the University of Texas and, later, New York University. He spent his early career in the heart of New York City, working in classical arts management under the acclaimed Sol Hurok. He would later work in television and theater production with renowned theatrical producer Saint Subber. The AIDS epidemic of the 1980s compelled G. Sterling Zinsmeyer to shift his focus to the care and support of those suffering from the disease. Identifying a particular void in the care of this devastating yet widely ignored disease, he became a leader in the development and management of housing for persons living with HIV and AIDS in New York City. As a founding member of the National AIDS Housing Coalition, Zinsmeyer initiated the first meetings at the White House and the Department of Housing & Urban Development that addressed housing issues for persons living with HIV and AIDS. He would later serve two terms as President of the Stonewall Democrats, the largest gay political action group in New York City.
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* Hartwick College’s Wind Ensemble performed at Carnegie Hall this past March.