About
Last modified: July 6, 2009Glimmerglass Opera is a professional non-profit summer opera company in Central New York, located on the shore of Otsego Lake, the “Glimmerglass” of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Since its founding in 1975, Glimmerglass Opera has become a major destination for opera lovers from around the world, as well as an important training ground for artists, technicians and administrators.
The company serves up a varied menu of new, little-known and familiar operas in innovative productions, engaging important directors, designers and conductors who provide high standards of achievement. Since its opening in 1987, the Alice Busch Opera Theater has been home to more than 80 new productions, as well as many world and American premieres. In addition to presenting four new productions each season, Glimmerglass Opera helps launch the careers of many singers through its Young American Artists Program, an apprenticeship program for young singers.
What does it take to run Glimmerglass Opera?
Glimmerglass Opera has a year-round staff of about 25 people. That number grows to more than 350 in the summer, when interns, staff and artists join the roster to produce internationally-acclaimed opera and music theater. Glimmerglass Opera has a high return rate among its interns and staff members. Out about 130 production staff, 42 percent of the 2008 staff is returning for the 2009 season.
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