Word: glimmerglass
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...glorious strains of Handel filled the opera house on a recent July evening, an aroma of farm manure wafted through the ventilation. Talk about opera in the boondocks. At the annual Glimmerglass Opera Festival in Cooperstown, New York, productions are staged in a barnlike structure that overlooks Otsego Lake, which is scarcely less spoiled now than it was nearly 200 years ago, when it provided a setting for James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales (in which the lake was called Glimmerglass). In the nearby village is the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Stretching in all directions is rolling farmland, Grant...
What U.S. cultural magnet is located in Cooperstown, N.Y.? Easy: GLIMMERGLASS OPERA. Well, yes, the Baseball Hall of Fame is there too, but in contrast to the Hall of Fame, Glimmerglass's hits (and its basses) are onstage. Set along the sylvan shore of Otsego Lake, the festival is noted for its ambitious repertory and stable of budding American singers. This summer's season features a Jonathan Miller production of Beethoven's Fidelio, in which Miller does not change the 18th century prison locale to one of those voguish operatic places he calls "nowhere and nowhen," but instead treats...
...spring run of bass-action in which the great American wilderness is always a majestic participant. There is the bold Delaware brave Chingachgook, father of Uncas. Above all, there is Natty Bumppo. Shooting out a turkey's eye at 100 yards and escaping from the Iroquois beside Glimmerglass, showing a pioneer's contempt for newcomers who "strip the airth of its lawful covering," and at last retreating to die proudly on the unvexed prairie, he stalks again as one of the epic heroes of American writing...