Family Entertainment Series opens with introduction to opera for young audience
It’s a musical beginning for this year’s Family Entertainment Series at Chautauqua Institution.
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Young Artists to present ‘Alex and Alice in Operaland’
At the Manhattan School of Music, Gordon Ostrowski instructs students how to take proper headshots, walk like a Victorian in style classes and build professional resumes.
Three distinct routes lead Young Artists to Artsongs performance
The singers in the Chautauqua Opera Company’s third Artsongs recital have followed three radically different paths to arrive at today’s 4:15 p.m. performance in the Hall of Christ.
Elegant economy: Opera puts on ‘A Sondheim Reunion’
In their first musical theater revue this season, Chautauqua Opera Company performs “A Sondheim Reunion,” drawing on composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s early works.
At 10:30 p.m. tonight in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall, Director Andy Gale and Musical Director Sterling Price-McKinney will present an original narrative that brings nine old friends together for their 10-year high school reunion. Sondheim’s songs tell the evening’s stories with great economy.
“There is no wasted word, there is no wasted note,” Price-McKinney said of Sondheim’s composition. “The economy of that is very elegant. That’s what lures me to these early songs.”
Opera singers find new voice with musical theater
When the average person thinks of American musical theater, the names Rodgers and Hammerstein no doubt come to mind.
However, in the Musical Theater Revue, put on by Studio Artists of the Chautauqua Opera Company at 10:30 p.m. tonight and next Tuesday in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall, Richard Rodgers will be nowhere to be found.
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