Chautauqua Opera Conservatory Director Marlena Malas and stage director John Giampietro originally planned to stage Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen during the 2020 season, but shelved the production because of the COVID-19 pandemic and
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Lauded brass ensemble Seraph Brass entered the classical music scene in 2014, created from the hopes of the trumpeter and founder of the group, Mary Elizabeth Bowden. “I recently found a notebook from 2006 where
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and Chautauqua Opera Company are teaming up for the company’s final performance of the summer with “Opera & Pops” at 8:15 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6 in the Amphitheater under the baton of
From mystery to young adult fiction to graphic novels, Walter Mosley has written in nearly every genre. While he is well-known for his Easy Rawlins mystery series, Mosley also writes and is an executive producer
Traditionally, Chautauqua Opera Company has held a Studio Artist Scenes program as a last recital for the Young Artists. They’re taking a bit of a different approach this year as, in concordance with Week Six’s
Opera singer and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham has a secret agenda behind agreeing to perform alongside the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. “The reason that I’m here this week, really, is to celebrate Marlena Malas, who has been
The Chautauqua Opera Company is going out with a bang … literally. For the Opera Invasion Grand Finale, Chautauqua Opera — along with a number of Opera Conservatory students — will mimic an explosion as
What happens when you let 16 Opera Conservatory students choose the repertoire for their last student recital of the season? You get over two hours of music content in the bel canto tradition. “Since it
Photos of cacti with a backdrop of a brilliant blue, a starry sky contrasted against aerial photos of nighttime Chicago sliced into a grid by streetlights — these are some of the images displayed by
While clarinetist Mark Dover was still a college student, he heard Imani Winds perform and became a big fan. After he graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with his master’s in music, he auditioned
Author Gertrude Stein was not afraid of repetition, and while this makes her work rich with literary merit, the script can pose a memorization issue for the cast of The Mother of Us All. “Every
The Chautauqua Opera Company’s Festival Weekend continues today with Giacomo Puccini’s grand opera Tosca, which — on first glance — might be an unconventional choice for an event celebrating women’s rights and the 102-year anniversary
The Chautauqua Opera Company is gearing up to produce an opera every day for the long-awaited, long-postponed Opera Festival Weekend. Chautauqua Opera chose three operas to celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment in 2020.
Music and dance are almost inextricably linked, so it makes perfect sense that the next Opera Conservatory Voice Recital will embrace the interconnections of the two. Kanae Matsumoto and Martin Dubé, Opera Conservatory faculty who
For violist Vlad Bogdanas, musicians in string quartets are not like work colleagues or friends, but like members of his own family. “It’s like a relationship with your brothers or with your parents,” Bogdanas said.
Audiences might be used to staying up to the late hour of 11:30 p.m. for Jay Leno in the past, but Chautauquans can catch the comedian earlier when he performs at 8:15 p.m. Friday, July