The complete lineup has been announced for the Glimmerglass Festival's 2026 season, which will run July 10-August 17 in Cooperstown, New York. The season will include six mainstage productions, opening with Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, directed by Francesca Zambello (The Little Mermaid).

Oklahoma! will star Shereen Pimentel and Michael Adams as Laurey Williams and Curly McLain, alongside festival resident artists Erik Nordstrom as Jud Fry, Kate Morton as Ado Annie, Peter Murphy as Will Parker, and Reen Gnepper as Ali Hakim. The production will feature choreography by Eric Sean Fogel, sets by Peter J. Davison, costumes by Constance Hoffman, lighting by Ken Billington, sound by Joel Morain, and hair and makeup by Tom Watson. James Lowe will conduct.

Bethold Brecht, Kurt Weill, and Elizabeth Hauptmann's Happy End will be presented in a production by Mary Birnbaum, starring Gregory Feldmann as Bill Cracker, and 2024 Lotte Lenya Competition winner Ana Karneža as the mob boss known only as The Fly. Banned in Berlin after just two performances, Happy End never became as well-known as Brecht and Weill's previous collaboration, The Threepenny Opera. Nevertheless, some songs, including "Bilbao Song" and "Surabaya Johnny" managed to break through, and the show's eventual Broadway premiere in 1977 earned Brecht, Weill, and Hauptmann posthumous Tony nominations.

The festival will also host the previously announced touring production of Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce's Fellow Travelers. Based on Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel of the same name, Fellow Travelers tells the story of queer federal government workers facing discrimination during the "Lavender Scare," the 1950s panic about homosexuals working in the U.S. government leading to a mass purge of queer government workers. Colin Aikins, Joseph Lattanzi, Keely Futterer, Erik Nordstrom, Keileigh Riess, and Luke Harnish will star in the production, directed by Kevin Newbury and conducted by Kelly Kuo.

A new English adaptation of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte, simply titled Cosi, will premiere in a production directed by Eric Einhorn and conducted by Joseph Colaneri. Amanda Batista and Michelle Mariposa will star as sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella, with Travon Walker and Gregory Feldmann as their soldier beaus Ferrando and Guglielmo. Kevin Burdette and Keely Futterer play the scheming Don Alfonso and the maid Despina, who conspire to teach the happy couples a lesson about love and jealousy.

Rounding out the season are revivals of Francesca Zambello's productions of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Ben Moore's Robin Hood. Madama Butterfly will star Eri Nakamura as Cio-Cio-San and Eric Taylor as B.F. Pinkerton, while Robin Hood, an opera for young people, will star Noah Mond and Lauren Torey as the Sheriff and Scarlet.

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