Author Archives: Andy Manshel

Glimmerglass. Last night Ghosts of Versailles.

that Handel had traveled up the Susquehanna to its source?

Who needs England when we have Otsego County? Jerusalem [“And did those feet in ancient time”] BY WILLIAM BLAKE And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon Englands mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills?And was Jerusalem …

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Otsego Lake

In the company’s latest season, a revelatory production of Mozart’s ‘Così fan tutte’; an appropriately bleak take on Janáček’s ‘Jenůfa’; the world premiere of Poul Ruders’s slight, Brothers Grimm-inspired ‘The Thirteenth Child.’ ByHeidi WalesonAug. 7, 2019 4:30 pm ET Santa Fe, N.M. R.B. Schlather’s production of Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” (1790) was the revelation of this Santa Fe …

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SFO. Opera Managers’ Dinner.

SFO.

Bard Summerscape stages a production of the obscure, mystical 1927 work by film composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold. ByHeidi WalesonJuly 30, 2019 4:06 pm ET Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Each summer, as part of its one-composer focus, Bard Summerscape exhumes an opera from the repertory graveyard. The Austrian-born Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), the subject of this year’s examination, is …

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The Santa Fe Opera

Fr. James’ retirement mass.