As it often does, the feisty and inventive Glimmerglass Opera, in Cooperstown, N.Y., will offer a broad range of styles within a compact program during its 2014 season next summer. Its schedule, which the company announced Thursday, includes four works including a staging of “Carousel,†the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical theater classic, which is part of the program of bringing musicals into the opera repertory that Francesco Zambello undertook when she became the company’s artistic and general director in 2010.
The lineup also includes two standard repertory works - Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly,†which will open the season, and Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos,†which has not been performed at Glimmerglass since 1994. The fourth production is a contemporary score, Tobias Pcker’s setting of the Theodore Dreiser novel “An American Tragedy.â€
Mr. Picker’s opera had its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 2005, in a production by Ms. Zambello. At Glimmerglass, Ms. Zambello has ordered a fresh staging, which will be directed by Kate Whoriskey with sets by Robert Wierzel. The cast includes June Anderson and Aleksay Bogdonov. George Manahan will conduct.
Ms. Zambello will direct both “Madame Butterfly†and “Ariadne auf Naxos.†The Puccini work will star Yunah Lee as Cio-Cio San, with Joseph Colaneri conducting. Michael Yeargan will design the production. Christine Goerke will sing the title role in the Strauss, with Rachele Gilmore as Zerbinetta, and Kathleen Kelly conducting. The sets will be by Troy Hourie, with costumes by Bibhu Mohapatra.
Charles Newell will direct “Carousel,†which will have choreography by Daniel Pelzig and costumes by Jessica Jahn. Doug Peck will conduct, but the rest of the casting has not been announced.
The works will run in repertory from July 11 through Aug. 24, 2014.
