CHAUTAUQUA, NY — The Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory, the resident opera company and conservatory of Chautauqua Institution, today announced the first season of its newly unified program under the leadership of General and Artistic Director Steven Osgood and Conservatory Director Marlena Malas. The company and former Chautauqua Voice Program unified in fall 2021. The Chautauqua Opera Company’s three 2022 productions will be Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca; Kamala Sankaram and Susan Yankowitz’s chamber opera Thumbprint; and The Mother of Us All, by Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein. The Opera Conservatory will produce Don Giovanni by Lorenzo Da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus...
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Opera Company today unveils program plans for the 2021 season, including two mainstage productions at the open-air Performance Pavilion on Pratt Avenue, and an enhanced commitment to new works through the celebrated Composer-in-Residence program and a new Composer Fellows program. The mainstage performances highlight the versatility of Chautauqua Opera Company through new productions of Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg and (Working Title): A Company Developed Piece. The 2021 repertoire responds to the issues of the day and the challenges of performing live in what everyone hopes will be the final months of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Planning for the 2021 season has...
Virtual Young Artist Program and nine weeks of digital operatic content to be released on Chautauqua Institution’s new online platform The Chautauqua Opera Company, following the suspension of all face-to-face programming at Chautauqua Institution in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been working diligently to rebuild a socially distanced 2020 company this summer. Honoring the company’s commitment to support the artists and artisans who were to make up the physical 2020 company, Chautauqua Opera has engaged more than 40 company members who will come together virtually to create nine weeks of digital operatic content. In addition to creating digital content,...
To Our Chautauqua Opera Community— The Board of Trustees of the Chautauqua Institution met yesterday for its quarterly meeting with the primary agenda being to determine the Institution’s course of action for the 2020 Summer Assembly. Michael Hill, president of the Chautauqua Institution, has released a communication addressing the Board’s decision which includes the suspension of all in-person programming at the Institution this summer. View more information here. Thus, it is with a heavy heart that I write to announce that the Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2020 season will be canceled. For 90 consecutive summers, Chautauquans have gathered in Norton Hall to...
Chautauqua Institution has been awarded a $15,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2020 Opera Festival, entitled “The Women’s Suffrage Centennial: Claiming a Voice, Claiming a Vote.” As part of Chautauqua Institution’s nine-week summer assembly season, Chautauqua Opera Company produces more than 30 operatic events, including three mainstage operas. The company’s 2020 season celebrates the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment with a trio of operas, each of which revolves around a powerful female figure who is fighting to forge her own path and have her voice heard....
Chautauqua Opera Announces 2019 Season, Celebrating the Company’s 90th Anniversary Season to feature a ‘Beaumarchais Trilogy’, presented on three consecutive nights July 25-27, 2019 Chautauqua Opera Company has announced their 2019 mainstage season, which will include Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, directed by Kathleen Smith-Belcher, Vid Guerrerio’s ¡Figaro! (90210) – a contemporary adaptation of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro—directed by Eric Einhorn, and John Corigliano and William Hoffman’s The Ghosts of Versailles, directed by Peter Kazaras. Founded in 1929, Chautauqua Opera’s 2019 season celebrates the company’s 90th Anniversary. For the first time, audiences will be able to experience these three operas on...
Chautauqua Opera announces the appointment of Daniel Grambow as Managing Director.Daniel will reside in Chautauqua and will join the full-time staff in the Performing and Visual Arts office at Chautauqua Institution. “I am thrilled that Daniel Grambow will be joining us as Managing Director, and that he will be a year-round resident in Chautauqua County,” says General and Artistic Director Steven Osgood. “Daniel’s wide ranging experience as a performer and producer will be a tremendous addition to our company. His passion and devotion to civic engagement will help Chautauqua Opera build its connection to the entire community in and around...
Internationally renowned Guest Artists round out the Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2016 season The Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2016 season will include mainstage productions of Giuseppe Verdi’s beloved opera La Traviata in the Amphitheater (July 9), directed by Keturah Stickann; Gilbert and Sullivan’s comedic gem The Mikado in Norton Hall (July 29 & Aug. 1), directed by Ned Canty; and a concert performance of Missy Mazzoli’s Song From the Uproar, in Chautauqua Opera’s first ever collaboration with the Logan Chamber Music Series (Aug. 8). “I am delighted that 2016 shows such a balance between debut artists, former Young Artists, featured roles for...
2017 Season to feature three mainstage productions, including the U.S. Stage Premiere of Respighi’s realization of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo Gity Razaz joins the company as the 2017 Composer-in-Residence, writing three commissions that will receive world premieres during the summer season The Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2017 season will include the U.S. Stage Premiere of Respighi’s sumptuous realization of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, in the new Chautauqua Amphitheater (July 8), directed by Keturah Stickann; Donizetti’s boisterous Don Pasquale (July 28 and 31), directed by David Schweizer, in Norton Hall; and Philip Glass’ and Allen Ginsberg’s chamber opera Hydrogen Jukebox (July 27 and August 1), directed...
Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce the appointment of Steven R. Osgood as the general and artistic director of the Chautauqua Opera Company. In this capacity, Osgood will also serve as an advocate for the company and the classical arts within and beyond the Chautauqua community. Osgood, who has served as guest conductor at CHQ many times, succeeds Jay Lesenger, who announced in April that he will step down at the end of the calendar year. “The Chautauqua Opera Company has played an important part in my professional life since my debut in 2009, and the Institution has become a...