Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory Announces 2023 Season
The Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory, the resident opera company and conservatory of Chautauqua Institution, today announced its 2023 Season. The Chautauqua Opera Company’s 2023 productions will feature Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and La Tragédie de Carmen — Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere and Marius Constant’s adaptation of Bizet’s beloved opera. Both will be conducted by Steven Osgood and staged in Norton Memorial Hall. The Opera Conservatory, led by Director...
Chautauqua Fund
Chautauqua Fund For many, Chautauqua is home in the most profound sense–a place to learn, to grow, to live securely, to revel in an environment of physical beauty. By supporting the Chautauqua Fund you are helping to provide a place where issues of the day are explored and the arts continue to flourish. Your 100% tax-deductible gift to the Chautauqua Fund will help ensure a successful and vital future for the Chautauqua Institution. Unrestricted giving...
Stefan Bindley-Taylor Named Winner Of 2025 Chautauqua Janus Prize For ‘Bread, Meat, And Water’
...changing all at once and all the time, challenging and reshaping values, and dreams even as the foundational impulses that connect us as humans prevail.” As the 2025 prize recipient, Bindley-Taylor will receive $5,000, plus travel and lodging for a week’s writing residency at Chautauqua Institution this summer. He will give a public lecture and reading at a celebratory event at 5 p.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 8, in the parlor of the Athenaeum Hotel as...
Chautauqua Climate Change Initiative: February 2025
...no longer needed, or temporarily when pronghorn are migrating. Over the past two decades, the pronghorn migration project has helped open hundreds of miles of fence-free habitat. As a result, pronghorn numbers are on the rise. In fact, that project is how I found myself in the Paradise Valley 10 summers ago, working alongside my then 10-year-old daughter and other volunteers to take down fences. After a long, sweaty day of clipping and spooling barbed...
Sailing
...goes out at 4 p.m. Weekend rentals by appointment only. Please call the sailing center, or stop in, to schedule a time to rent the desired boat. Chautauqua Yacht Club The CYC, an independent CHQ organization, offers racing opportunities for C-Scows, Flying Scots, and Lightnings every Saturday and Sunday from the first weekend of the Season through Labor Day, for all sailors interesting in racing. Please check the website, chautauquayachtclub.weebly.com to learn about CYC events....
2022 Season
...Week Six: July 30–August 6 After Dark: The World of Nighttime What happens to us and our world after the sun goes down each day? From our homes and cities to flora and fauna, each night brings with it a markedly different landscape than the daylit one that preceded it. Nighttime is full of contradictions: It provides cover for all manner of illicit activity but also for safely creating community; it is the domain of...
Chautauqua President Announces Departure
...years, the Institution has explored some of the most important issues of our day while also seeking to adapt to a changing world. Today, we have a tremendous team of staff that is more dedicated than any I have ever served with, a leadership team whose credentials and commitment are unparalleled in the Institution’s history, a program that has never been a stronger symbol of our mission, and a business trajectory that continues to point...
Chautauqua Climate Change Initiative: June 2025
...Decision-Making in the Age of Plastics, at Chautauqua during Week Nine! In between we have a remarkable line up of lectures, films, forums, and classes exploring a diversity of perspectives on our environment, from global climate change to your backyard garden. We’ve got a day-by-day schedule to help you navigate your busy days at Chautauqua and ensure you don’t miss a thing. There are multiple programs each week of the season, and I’ll highlight just...
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....
2026 Young Artists
...as an exciting communicator of repertoire spanning the baroque to the present day. Upcoming events include a return to Carnegie Hall for her debut as the Mezzo-Soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and her return to Chautauqua Opera. Recent performances of the 2025 season include debuting at Carnegie Hall with Mid America Productions and the New England Symphonic Ensemble in Notareschi’s Climate Mass as well as in Sunday in the Park with George as Celeste 2 and Elaine at the Glimmerglass Festival. Her 2024 season...