Tobias Melle spent three summers in the Bavarian/German Alps with his backpack, huge photographic equipment and the score of “An Alpine Symphony,” Op. 64, by
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As members of the Chautauqua community, it is important to share our lives with each other, according to Karen Lord-Powell, an eight-year member of the
Flannery O’Connor contended in her essay “The Nature and Aim of Fiction” that there was no writer “hotter after the dollar” than Henry James, or
Painters are often thought of as reclusive sorts, and the kind of people who choose to hole up by themselves in the studio for hours
Erin Weglietner can make marble out of wood. All she needs is a brush. Weglietner is the scenic charge for the Chautauqua Theater Company and
The Charlotte Ballet has every right to be the most smoochy dance company in the country, and Sarah Hayes Harkins and James Kopecky in an
Hello Kitty, Elvis and Godzilla walk into a bar. The punchline is Ned Canty’s off the wall production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, presented
Photos by Carolyn Brown. An evening far beyond breaking even, an evening in concert that few theaters can create. Add, however, to the diversity and
Not all timbres are created equal. Some singers’ voices work better with certain pieces. For voice student Kathryn Henry, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki’s “Symphony of
Vivienne Benesch is fighting for new work right up to the last moment. The Chautauqua Theater Company co-artistic director, whose 12-season tenure in the
Sheep May Safely Graze, BWV 208 Bach/Stokowski Among the cantatas that Johann Sebastian Bach composed for the church are a few secular ones, including Cantata
Two Chautauqua Opera Company Studio Artists will turn Thursday into Ladies’ Day when they present their recital, “What You Don’t Know About Women,” at
At 10 p.m. Thursday in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall, the Chautauqua Opera Company Studio Artists will present their second late-night Musical Theater Revue. Set during a
Andrew Borba and Rossen Milanov are bringing sorrow to a new level at Chautauqua Institution. The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra will weave theater and voice
It’s hard to hear in the Amphitheater sometimes. It’s an issue in 2016, and it was an issue in 1977 when anthropologist Margaret Mead
Four times throughout the “Evening of Pas de Deux” at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Amphitheater, four dancers will mix and match as partners, like