Alumni in the News
...Dinner With Friends. Andrea Syglowski (’11) plays Susie in John Patrick Shanley’s Brooklyn Laundry at Manhattan Theatre Club. Yonatan Gebeyehu (’17) cast in the world premiere of Jesús I. Valles’ BATHHOUSE.PPTX Whitney White (’20) directs Ife Olujubi’s Jordans at The Public Theatre’s LuEsther Hall. Around the Country Caitlin Clouthier (’07) plays Edna Buchanan in Dangerous Day at Colony Theater in Miami Beach. Amelia Pedlow (’08/09) played Hester Prynne on Two River Theater’s world premiere of...
Sunrise Paddle – Kayak/SUP
Enjoy the beauty of the lake during our sunrise paddle. This is not a guided tour but an opportunity to rent a kayak, SUP or canoe for an enjoyable hour at sunrise. Reservations accepted one day in advance at the Sports Club. Contact sportsclub@chq.org with questions....
History
...new and undiscovered works to the COA including Ward’s The Crucible, Wagner’s Tannhauser and Die Walküre as well as Hanson’s Merry Mount. Hanson’s opera was the crowning achievement of Treash’s years at Chautauqua. Mr. Treash was also instrumental in establishing and expanding the Young Artist Program with grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund and the New York State Council for the Arts. The present Chautauqua Opera Guild was established in 1974. To this day,...
Chautauqua Opera and Conservatory Eyes 2025 Shift to New American Workshops
...and pedagogical priorities at Chautauqua. Our planning efforts and conversations intend to ensure that.” *The Chautauqua Community joins the world in mourning the passing of Marlena Malas on December 4, 2023. We honor her more than four decades of leadership and service to our Opera Conservatory. About Chautauqua Institution Chautauqua Institution is a not-for-profit, 750-acre community on Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State, where approximately 7,500 persons are in residence on any day during...
Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory Announces 2025 Season
Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory, the resident opera company and conservatory of Chautauqua Institution, announced today its 2025 season. Chautauqua Opera Company For its 2025 season, Chautauqua Opera continues its 95-year history of producing opera at Chautauqua Institution while also strengthening its commitment to developing new opera. Alongside a production of Puccini’s La bohème in Chautauqua’s Amphitheater, the company will conduct workshops of three new operas. Ranging from chamber operas to large-scale pieces, these workshops...
Six EV Charging Plugs Added to Chautauqua Institution Campus in Advance of Retool ’23 Conference
...collaborates with customers toward a shared, clean energy transition, and are central to the company’s Project C initiative, which was created to inspire change and create a more equitable future for our customers and our communities. ### About Chautauqua Institution Chautauqua Institution is a not-for-profit, 750-acre community on Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State, where approximately 7,500 persons are in residence on any day during a nine-week season, and a total of more than...
Six Finalists Named for 2017 Chautauqua Prize
Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce six exceptional books as the 2017 finalists for The Chautauqua Prize, now in its sixth year: The General vs. The President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War, by H.W. Brands (Doubleday) The Fortunes, by Peter Ho Davies (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Blood River Rising: The Thompson-Crimson Feud of the 1920s, by Victoria Pope Hubbell (Iris Press) Underground Airlines, by Ben H. Winters (Mulholland Books) American Character: A History of...
Eula Biss’ ‘Having and Being Had’ Wins 2021 Chautauqua Prize
Author Will Give Reading as Part of the Digital CHQ Assembly Platform CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today proudly announces Having and Being Had (Riverhead Books) by Eula Biss as the 2021 winner of The Chautauqua Prize. As author of the winning book, Biss receives $7,500, and will be presented with the Prize — and give a public reading — during a celebratory event set for 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, on the digital CHQ Assembly platform. Having just purchased her first home, in Having...
Jade King Carroll Appointed as Producing Artistic Director of Chautauqua Theater Company
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of the celebrated director Jade King Carroll as Producing Artistic Director of its resident Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC) following an extensive national search. In this role, Carroll will program and oversee the company’s robust annual summer season of professional productions, a growing new work development program, and a renowned conservatory that supports early-career artists. Based in New York City, Carroll is currently the resident artist at...
Jordan Steves Named Emily and Richard Smucker Chair
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. August 29, 2023 – Following a national search, Chautauqua Institution today announced the appointment of Jordan Steves as Emily and Richard Smucker Chair of Education. Steves has been serving as Interim Smucker Chair since March. Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer Deborah Sunya Moore said Steves’s legacy of service and leadership position Chautauqua to build on the strengths of these core education programs. “This position is about preserving the depth of history,...