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...Baseball and Opera Buffs. In Cooperstown, NY - home to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Glimmerglass Opera - the four-star Otesaga Resort Hotel, located right on the banks of Lake Otsego is celebrating its 100th season. Like Mohonk, the resort is serving up special dishes from its 1909 menu, including rack of lamb Monte Carlo with Parisian potatoes. The hotel is right in town, within walking distance of the Fenimore Art Museum (the current exhibit features American artists' impressions of Rome at the turn of the century) and the Farmers' Museum, a living museum and ode to farming...
American opera and the national pastime have two things in common: devoted fans and Cooperstown, N.Y. Located a few miles from the Baseball Hall of Fame in this upstate town, the Glimmerglass Opera is famed for imaginative productions featuring young American singers on the cusp of major careers. This summer, for its 25th anniversary season, it will present four works in repertory, including the well-known--La Boheme and Salome--and the neglected: Handel's Acis and Galatea and The Glass Blowers, a 1913 operetta by John Philip Sousa. Though he became conductor of the U.S. Marine Band...
...Glimmerglass Opera...
...Astonishing stage pictures can be wonderful, but they're not enough," says Kellogg, 62, who, by all accounts, has been the prime mover in turning Glimmerglass into a major force in American opera. "We keep our productions spare so that the audience can concentrate on what is happening between the characters onstage. We look for singers who are really good actors--and then we give them room...
Since 1996, Kellogg has also been in charge of the New York City Opera, which performs at Lincoln Center in a 2,700-seat house whose stage is identical in size to that of Glimmerglass's 900-seat Alice Busch Opera Theater. This makes it possible for productions to be opened and polished in Cooperstown, then moved to New York City, where they can be seen by bigger audiences (and telecast over PBS). The two companies also share an ensemble of theatrically savvy young American singers, foremost among them soprano Lauren Flanigan, whose Olivier-like immersion in her roles...