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The purpose of the Guild shall be to promote and support the Glimmerglass Festival through volunteer services, community outreach, and educational programs as well as assistance in tax-exempt fundraising to provide financial support that aligns with the financial goals of the Festival.

50th Anniversary Cookbook Available

Thank you all for your help with the 2025 edition of the Glimmerglass Guild Cookbook! We have sold almost 140 of the 200 books we ordered and have cleared a small profit. Currently, the remaining cookbooks are for sale at Mohican flowers in Cooperstown, at the Green Toad bookstore in Oneonta, at the Munson gift shop in Utica, and online on the Guild website. Help us sell them out before the New Year! They make great Christmas Gifts.

The Cookbook Committee 

Ann Mei, Jean-Marie Havener, Margaret Kiss Santos Laura Wetzel and Laura Palada

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THE MET IN HD PREVIEWS WITH

ABBY KREH GIBSON

Arabella, the story of romance in 1860 Vienna is the final collaboration of Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal who died after finishing Act I.  It premiered July 1, 1933 in Dresden to great success. The opera portrays the noble Arabella’s search for true love amid family struggles. It can be seen locally on Nov. 22, 1 PM at Munson, Genesee Street in Utica, and at The Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market Street, Oneonta in the upstairs theater on the second floor.

Listen to Arabella

La Boheme, Puccini’s much loved opera of Bohemian life in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the mid-nineteenth Century premiered in 1896 and continues to be the world’s most popular opera.  It can be seen locally at Munson, Genesee Street in Utica, and at The Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center, 24 Market Street, Oneonta in the upstairs theater on the second floor.

Listen to La Boheme

Vincenzo Bellini’s bel canto opera La Sonnambula, (The Sleepwalker) will be the Metropolitan Opera’s first live in HD Broadcast of the Season on October 18, 2025 at 1PM.  It was first performed in 1835 with great success.  This new production stars Nadine Sierra as the sleepwalking heroine, Amina.

Listen to la sonnabula

2025 talking opera calendar

EVENTS

 
Hear May 30th Tosca with Colaneri
Hear June 13 The Rake's Progress with Colaneri
Hear June 20 Sunday in the Park with George by Michael Ellis Ingram
Hear June 30 the House on Mango Street by Chia Patino
Hear July 7 the odyssey by kelley rourke
 

Third Annual Guild Wine Tasting on Sunday, August 3 at 4:30 PM

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Imagining Glimmerglass - TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2025, 4:30 PM IN THE PAVILION OF THE GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL

Please join some of the original members of the Glimmerglass Opera Theatre as they share the history of the beginning of the Opera in the Sterling Auditorium in Cooperstown HS in 1975.

Meet old friends, Relive memories, and Share in the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the History of the Glimmerglass Opera Festival.

Glimmerglass Guild Gala 2025 - Fabulous at Fifty

Tuesday, August 12 from 6 to 11 PM at The Otesaga Resort Hotel

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Midwinter Talking Opera with Rob February 20 at 7 PM

Missed the Watch Party? Listen here:

Rob Ainsley's 2025 Midwinter Talking Opera.mp4 - Google Drive

Photo; at the September 2024 Annual Meeting Guild Treasurer John Anagnost presents the Artistic and General Director of Glimmerglass Festival Rob Ainsley with a gift of $20,000 from the Guild.

Author of The House on Mango Street

Meet Author Sandra Cisneros

On March 13, 2025 The Guild collaborated with the Festival to bring Author Sandra Cisneros into the 3 school libraries & 3 public libraries in Otsego County so students could meet the author of The House on Mango Street. Click to hear the Zoom conversation.

 
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