Author Archives: Andy Manshel

Leave a reply Learning from Bryant Park: Revitalizing Cities, Towns, and Public Spaces Hardcover – April 17, 2020 by Andrew M. Manshel (Author) By the 1970s, 42nd Street in New York was widely perceived to be unsafe, a neighborhood thought to be populated largely by drug dealers, porn shops, and muggers. But in 1979, civic leaders developed a long-term …

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The Glimmerglass Festival presents the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s ‘Blue,’ as well as a shortened version of ‘The Ghosts of Versailles’ and productions of ‘Show Boat’ and ‘La Traviata.’ ByHeidi WalesonAug. 14, 2019 4:19 pm ET Cooperstown, N.Y. Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson ’s “Blue,” commissioned and given its world premiere by the …

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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.