Word: opera
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...American opera and the national pastime have two things in common: devoted fans and Cooperstown, N.Y. Located a few miles from the Baseball Hall of Fame in this upstate town, the Glimmerglass Opera is famed for imaginative productions featuring young American singers on the cusp of major careers. This summer, for its 25th anniversary season, it will present four works in repertory, including the well-known--La Boheme and Salome--and the neglected: Handel's Acis and Galatea and The Glass Blowers, a 1913 operetta by John Philip Sousa. Though he became conductor of the U.S. Marine Band...
Glimmerglass Opera...
This is James Fenimore Cooper country. His father founded the village on the south end of nine-mile-long Otsego Lake in 1786, and the author later described the area in the Leatherstocking Tales. Before going to the opera in the evening, visitors can swim or sail. In town, they can spend a thoughtful afternoon at Fenimore House, a 1930s mansion housing Hudson River School paintings, as well as folk and Native American art, or they can walk into America's rural past at the Farmers Museum, in a re-creation of a mid-19th century village. --By Emily Mitchell...
...falls mainly on his middle daughter Eve (Meg Ryan), who is trying to get a business going and keep a family functioning. Her elder sister Georgia (Diane Keaton, who also directed) is a high-powered, terminally distracted Manhattan magazine editor. Her younger sibling Maddy (Lisa Kudrow) is a soap-opera actress. These ladies, needless to say, have their own messy, unresolved issues...
...piano persuasively conjures the smoky languor of a Left Bank nightclub. But the star of this show is Norman's brilliant voice, which cuts through the nocturnal mood like a shaft of light. Though you can't help wondering what the diva could do if she shrugged off the opera-house manners and let herself go a little more, there's no denying an instrument of such grandeur...