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Glimmerglass Festival: The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson

Date

Aug 15 2022 - Aug 16 2022

Time

7:30 pm
Glimmerglass Festival

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Glimmerglass Festival
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(607) 547-2255
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Website
https://glimmerglass.org/
Alice Busch Opera Theater

Location

Alice Busch Opera Theater
7300 State Hwy 80, Cooperstown, NY
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Date

Aug 15 2022 - Aug 16 2022

Time

7:30 pm

Glimmerglass Festival: The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson

The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson is a new play with music that premiered at The Glimmerglass Festival in 2021, celebrating the founder of the historic and groundbreaking National Negro Opera Company. The work, written by Mark Twain Award-winning playwright and librettist, Sandra Seaton, includes selections from the repertory of the National Negro Opera Company and original music composed by Carlos Simon. Denyce Graves reprises her role in an extended version in a two-night-only presentation in August.Performed in English with projected English lyrics.
Run time: 70 minutesThis production is generously sponsored by Robert L. Turner.

“Madame Dawson was an arts pioneer, a woman of many firsts, whose remarkable story had been all but forgotten until recently. Mary Cardwell Dawson broke through incredible barriers to give voice to singers of color, creating opportunities that eventually brought them to major American opera house stages for the first time. It is an honor to champion her story — and that of the National Negro Opera Company she founded in 1941.” — Denyce Graves

 

The 2022 Festival features productions of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, originally slated for the summer of 2020. Bizet’s Carmen takes the stage in a new production directed by 2022 Artist in Residence Denyce Graves, followed by the new work Tenor Overboard, weaving some of Rossini’s most spectacular music together in a new comic opera with a book by the famed playwright Ken Ludwig. The next installment of Common Ground, the Festival’s multi-year initiative of new, commissioned works, is a double bill of Kamala Sankaram and Jerre Dye’s Taking Up Serpents, paired with the world premiere one-act Holy Ground, by Damien Geter and Lila Palmer.

For show times and ticket information, visithttps://glimmerglass.org/

Alice Busch Opera Theater

Location

Alice Busch Opera Theater
7300 State Hwy 80, Cooperstown, NY
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