GET INVOLVED
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
ABOUT THE GUILD
Umberto Giordano’s most popular opera, Andrea Chenier premiered in March 1896 with great success. This verismo opera with a lush and stirring score relates the story of Andrea Chenier, an idealistic poet caught up in the French Revolution.
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.
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.
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.
