The Glimmerglass Festival has announced its 50th anniversary season, which will run July 11–August 17, 2025, in Cooperstown, New York. The season will include five mainstage productions, beginning with Puccini's Tosca, directed by Louisa Proske.
The company premiere of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George will follow, directed by Ethan Heard. The work of Stephen Sondheim is often a point of crossover between opera and musical theatre, and this production will mark the third Sondheim work to be performed at the Glimmerglass Festival—following productions of Sweeney Todd in 2016, and West Side Story in 2018.
The 2025 Festival will also include The House on Mango Street, based on the novel by Sandra Cisneros. Cisneros has also penned the opera's libretto, collaborating with composer Derek Bermel. Chía Patiño will direct the world premiere production.
Eric Sean Fogel will direct the company premiere of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, a modern spin on the classic Faust story with a libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Finally, the season will conclude with Odyssey, a Glimmerglass commission by composer Ben Moore and librettist Kelley Rourke. The one-hour opera for all ages will be led by members of the festival's Young Artist Program, and feature the Glimmerglass Youth Ensemble.
In addition to the five mainstage productions, the festival will include an array of talks, concert, and other events, with the full schedule, and casting for the season, to be announced at a later date. For more information, visit Glimmerglass.org
