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Beethoven: Fidelio. (Glimmerglass Opera Company, Cooperstown, New York)

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From: The Nation
Date: 19911111
Author:Said, Edward W.

Or take the Glimmerglass Opera Company in Cooperstown, New York, whose annual monthlong repertory this year was made up of Beethoven's Fidelio (directed by Jonathan Miller) and Il Re Pastore, a very infrequently performed Mozart work, which I was told was the opera to see. I could only attend Fidelio, but I did not regret the trek up to James Fenimore Cooper country for only one performance. The opera house itself is stunning architecturally, and everything about Glimmerglass suggests that the opera is a community affair not overly concerned about being authoritative or ...

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