These ain’t your grandmother’s opera singers. No spears here. No pointy helmets or togas, either. Instead, these opera singers are outfitted in cross trainers and racing bibs. At 8 a.m. Saturday, in a continuation of
Nathan Healy
Ask baritone Kyle Pfortmiller and he might say that Don Pasquale is a precursor to the modern-day sitcom. The farcical opera buffa, penned by Gaetano Donizetti and premiered in 1843, certainly has all the hallmarks:
In May 1990, Stephen Colbert traveled home to Charleston, South Carolina. In a story Colbert told his audience on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he took the weeklong trip to figure out what he
The names of different departments at Lowe’s and Home Depot mean nothing to the production and stage crews of the Chautauqua Opera Company. “We’ll walk into a Home Depot and someone from customer service will
Marlena Malas has been invited to teach voice master classes all over the world. She has taught in Tokyo, Brussels, Tel Aviv and Sydney, as well as Boston, San Francisco and Santa Fe. All this
As society becomes ever more cyber-focused, the steady stream of “out with the old and in with the new” floods nearly every aspect of life. From self-driving cars to smart refrigerators, everyday items that once
There’s no turning back now. “I think that’s where we all are,” said soprano Alaysha Fox, one of the 24 Young Artists studying and performing with the Chautauqua Opera Company this summer. “We’re at that
Performing opera well requires more than a voice. “The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in (their) singing as in (their) acting of a role,” said the late
They’re going to do it all. They’re going to be pizza men and women. They’re going to be musicians, veterinarians, and firemen and firewomen. They’re even going to be Michael Jordan. But first, they want
When Hydrogen Jukebox was presented by the Eastman Opera Theatre in November 2015, the Rochester City News said it was “more like a stream of surreal and illusory fragments than anything approaching traditional opera.” Chelsea
From the seed of every crisis sprouts opportunity. At 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Amphitheater, the Chautauqua Opera Company joins the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra to present its Opera Highlights concert, “A Crisis of Operatic Proportion.”
Whether it happens quickly or slowly, once opera sinks its artistic hooks, it doesn’t let go. “I can’t imagine doing anything else that’s not music,” said bass Ricardo Ceballos de la Mora, one of the
Gary Thor Wedow loves his middle name. Like the music he adores, it’s a reminder that no matter how far a river travels, all of its water comes from the same source. At 10 p.m.
And the award for best director goes to … At 5 and 7 p.m. Tuesday in Smith Wilkes Hall, the Chautauqua Opera Company will hold a Family-Friendly Opera Revue for the Family Entertainment Series, and
The only thing that’s changed is everything. “It’s completely different, but exactly the same,” said baritone Daniel Belcher. At 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Amphitheater, the Chautauqua Opera Company will present the U.S. stage premiere
It was never a question. There is simply nothing better on the Fourth of July than fireworks. “I like the fireworks, but I’ve never seen them,” said 5-year-old Charlie Weber, an American flag hat fit