Recent Festival Seasons
The 2010 Festival featured four new productions including Copland's The Tender Land, and Handel's Tolomeo. During the 2011 season Cherubini's Medea was presented. Also, a double bill featuring the world premiere of A Blizzard On Marblehead Neck, with music by Jeanine Tesori set to Tony Kushner's libretto (a story inspired by the life of Eugene O'Neill) along with Later the Same Evening, (a one-act opera based on characters in five of Edward Hopper's paintings) with a score by John Musto from a libretto by Mark Campbell.
The 2012 Festival featured Verdi's Aida, Lully's Armide, Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars and the musical The Music Man. Armide was presented in collaboration with Opera Atelier of Toronto, Canada, and Lost in the Stars presented in collaboration with Cape Town Opera of South Africa.
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“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the festival of unleavened bread, at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed; all shall give as they are able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 16:16,17.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)