Phoebe Hillstrom competes in the final stage of the “So You Think You’re Louder Than an Opera Singer?” event with the Boy's and Girl's Club, on Friday, July 26, 2019 in Girl's Club. Hillstrom finishes
A celebration honoring something as grandiose as 90 consecutive years of opera requires a production that is just as extravagant. As the final opera in Chautauqua Opera Company’s three-day festival of the Beaumarchais Trilogy,
Gabriel O'Brien, 14, competes in "So you think you're louder than an opera singer" during the Opera Invasion in Sharpe Field, Wednesday, July 4, 2018. BRIAN HAYES/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Young Chautauquans fill Boys’ and Girls’ Club
Despite being in and out of trouble with the government, Beaumarchais was a man of many talents. From watchmaking to diplomacy, the French polymath Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais produced work that helped change the landscape
Alisha Jones grew up in Washington D.C. surrounded by art and creativity. “The creative spirit was always around and encouraged,” she said. Music quickly became an integral part of her life, as she attended popular
This week, Chautauqua Opera Company will undertake the unprecedented. In celebration of its 90th anniversary, this week will be Chautauqua Opera’s first time holding an opera festival. Over the course of three days, the 24 Young
There’s a musical movement in bluegrass in which bands are breaking the mold of the genre’s traditional sound. One of those bands, Twisted Pine, features fiddler Kathleen Parks, mandolinist Dan Bui and bassist Chris Sartori.
Chautauqua Opera Young Artists baritone Yazid Gray, soprano Kaitlyn Stavinoha and bass Seunghee Lee didn’t choose opera — it chose them. “Opera was never something I did (as a child), because I didn’t understand it,”
MEREDITH LEHMAN / DESIGN EDITOR In 1965, Julie Andrews graced the big screen with her iconic voice and taught the world about a few of her “Favorite Things.” By November 1966, “The Sound of Music” had
Stacey Abrams When politician, lawyer and author Stacey Abrams was 17 years old, she graduated from high school as valedictorian. “I was very proud of myself,” Abrams said in her 2018 Ted Talk “3 questions to
Chautauqua Opera Company Young Artists, from left, Gabrielle Beteag, Yazid Gray, Antona Yost, and James Stevens, bottom, perform in “The Barber of Seville in California” for students at Lincoln Elementary School in Jamestown. PHOTO COURTESY
Christine Sommers Christine Herbes-Sommers was mentoring and helping a fellow filmmaker as he was creating a documentary about his two grandmothers — one who was in vigorous health and the other who was declining. They
Musicians, whether instrumentalists or singers, collaborate constantly. Instrumentalists accompany singers in an array of different performances such as opera, musical theater or recitals. For Music School Festival Orchestra clarinetist Dustin Chung, playing with singers is
Composer-in-Residence, Gilda Lyons, conducts Young Artists, Natalie Trumm, and Jordan Loyd during The Chautauqua Opera Company's second Opera Invasion of the 2019 season on Wednesday, July 3, 2019 in Bestor Plaza.MHARI SHAW/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER As opera singers
For mezzo-soprano Quinn Middleman, there’s something captivating about the vulnerability that opera singers experience in recitals. “I think that’s what people are looking for in music, especially vocal music, is that vulnerability,” Middleman said.
When she was 6 years old, Daina Berry experienced her first moment of discrimination. In that moment, she used her knowledge of history to defend herself. “I gave my first history lesson when I was