Some notable summer theatres include: Oregon Shakespeare Festival Ashland, Oregon, Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre, Grand Lake, Colorado, Summerstock Conservatory, Calgary, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City, Utah, Santa Fe Opera, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, Massachusetts, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Glimmerglass Opera, Cooperstown, New York, The Barn Theatre in Augusta, Michigan and Vancouver's Bard on the Beach.

Glimmerglass Festival ( formerly known as Glimmerglass Opera ) is an opera company which was founded in 1975 by Peter Macris and presents an annual season of operas at the Alice Busch Opera Theater on Otsego Lake eight miles ( 13 km ) north of Cooperstown, New York, United States.

Francesca Zambello became Artistic & General Director of the newly renamed Glimmerglass Festival in 2011.

* Glimmerglass Festival official website

Kevin Burdette is a singer ( range: bass ) who has worked as a soloist with the Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, Teatro Colón, New York City Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Boston Lyric Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, and the Spoleto Festival USA, as well as many regional opera companies including the Wolf Trap Opera Company, Opéra de Québec, Chicago Opera Theater, Gotham Chamber Opera, Virginia Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Toledo Opera, Knoxville Opera, Opera Grand Rapids, and the Lyric Opera of San Antonio.

In July 2006, the opera " The Greater Good, or The Passion of Boule de Suif " opened as a part of the Glimmerglass Opera Festival in Cooperstown, New York.

The Glimmerglass Festival has announced that it will present the opera during the 2013 Festival.

This led to offers from numerous international opera companies ranging from Claudio Monteverdi to Peter Maxwell Davies, including Pamina, Despina, Susanna, Aminta ( Il re pastore ), Vixen, Michaela, Musetta, Ophelie, Leila, Marguerite, Violetta, Julietta ( Bohuslav Martinů ) and Adina for companies such as the Canadian Opera Company, Scottish Opera, English National Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Spoleto Festival, Opéra de Nice, Vlaamse Opera, New Zealand Opera, National Theatre of Prague, and Opera North.

Amongst the new productions of the opera in 2009 ( the 350th anniversary of Purcell's birth ) were those staged by the De Nederlandse Opera, the Royal Opera, London, the Divertimento Baroque Opera Company, and Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York.

In the course of the summer each Young Artist gives a solo song recital at venues in Cooperstown and nearby Cherry Valley, a feature of the Glimmerglass season that has become extremely popular with opera patrons and the local community.

Glimmerglass State Park is located north of Cooperstown, in Otsego County, New York, USA.

BLO regularly invests in co-productions with other U. S. companies including New York City Opera, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Houston Grand Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera.

Glimmerglass is well known for producing new, lesser-known, and rare works, many of which in years past have been co-produced with the New York City Opera.

The triptych was jointly commissioned by Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, and Thirteen / WNET's Great Performances, which telecast it on PBS in January 2000.

* New York State Parks: Glimmerglass State Park

* Glimmerglass Lagoon State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego NY

L ' étoile has been performed with increasing frequency and further afield over recent years, with productions at Opera North in 1991, Glimmerglass and Maastricht in 2001, New York City Opera in 2003 ( revived in March 2010 ), Toronto in 2005, Montreal and Cincinnati in 2006, Zurich in 2007 and Geneva in 2009.

Carmen – opera by Georges Bizet, Glimmerglass Opera, New York.

* Glimmerglass State Park – A small part of the state park is at the north town line by County Highway 31.

* Glimmerglass State Park – A state park partly in the town at eastern shore of Otsego Lake.

Area attractions include the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Bates Hop House, Judd Falls, Otsego Lake, and Glimmerglass State Park.

Glimmerglass State Park is located on the northeastern shore.

* Glimmerglass State Park, NY

Glimmerglass Opera presented the first American professionally staged production during its 2010 season, while a concert version is announced with Il complesso barocco under Alan Curtis for November 2010 at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna.

Glimmerglass Opera commissioned her to write lyrics for a cantata, entitled Constellations, in collaboration with composer David Carlson.

* The Garden-A Serenade to Glimmerglass, commissioned by Nicholas Russell for Glimmerglass Opera in honour of Stewart Robertson for its Young American Artists Program-2006

Glimmerglass Opera is located on the western shore.

Until 2011, the company operated under the name Glimmerglass Opera.

Paul Kellogg was the General Director of Glimmerglass Opera from 1979 to 1996 and the Artistic Director from 1996 to 2006.

Stewart Robertson was music director of Glimmerglass Opera from 1988 to 2006.

In October 2008, Glimmerglass Opera announced the appointment of David Angus as the company's next music director, starting in the summer of 2010.

In North America its most successful revival was in 1983, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch, but its fully staged premiere took place on July 19, 2008 at the Glimmerglass Opera in a production by Nicholas Muni.

The town has approximately of waterfront along the Manasquan River, Glimmerglass, and Debbie's Creek, all of which are salt water and tidal.

The lake was known to James Fenimore Cooper as Glimmerglass and was a principal feature in several of his novels, including The Pioneers, The Deerslayer, and Last of the Mohicans in which one may find mention of such local landmarks as Council Rock and Sunken Island.

Keene was succeeded in 1996 by Glimmerglass Opera's general and artistic director, Paul Kellogg.

Several works have had their American or world premieres at Glimmerglass ; the 1999 season featured the world premiere of Central Park, three one-act operas performed as a single work.

A new work on the program was Nikolai Lopatnikoff's `` Festival Overture '', receiving its first New York hearing.

The New York Shakespeare Festival, which is using the Wollman Memorial Skating Rink while its theatre near the Belvedere is being completed, began bravely.

Alvin Ailey and Carmen De Lavallade appeared in the first New York performance of Mr. Ailey's `` Roots Of The Blues '', a work given its premiere three weeks ago at the Boston Arts Festival.

In 2010 the New York Guitar Festival commissioned new scores on some of Chaplin's silent films from a number of contemporary artists, including Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Marc Ribot, David Bromberg, and Alex de Grassi.

By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

* The new musical TULLY ( In No Particular Order ), which appeared in the 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival, loosely adapts the poems of Catullus while retaining the non-linear structure of the published edition, exploring his relationships with both Clodia and Juventius, renamed Julie, and the timeless nature of memory and love.

Charles appeared in the John Godber comedy play Teechers, in which he swapped in and out of various roles, at the Arts Theatre, London, and at the Edinburgh Festival ( 1989 ), and he played Idle Jack in the pantomime Dick Whittington, at the Hull New Theatre ( 1997 ).

A similar event occurs at the Friendship Festival, a joint celebration between Fort Erie, Ontario, and neighbouring Buffalo, New York, and towns and villages throughout Maine, New Brunswick, and Quebec come together to celebrate both anniversaries together.

In most of East Asia today, the Gregorian calendar is used for day-to-day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for marking traditional East Asian holidays such as the Chinese New Year, the Duan Wu festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in astrology, such as choosing the most auspicious date for a wedding or the opening of a building.

After leaving Villanova, McLean became associated with famed folk music agent Harold Leventhal, and for the next six years performed at venues and events including the Bitter End and the Gaslight Cafe in New York, the Newport Folk Festival, the Cellar Door in Washington, D. C., and the Troubadour in Los Angeles.

Vernon, FL premiered at the 1981 New York Film Festival.

There are also many smaller film festivals in the United States, such as the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island, New York, the Northwest Filmmakers ' Festival, or the Sicilian Film Festival in Miami, Florida, which do not charge entry fees ; however, acceptance of films is usually more limited, and such film festivals do not necessarily attract big names in their audiences like Sundance and Telluride do.

The Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and Gimli Film Festival are also major festivals in North America, as is the Vancouver International Film Festival, the fifth largest film festival in North America.

* Independent films: In the US, Telluride Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Austin's South by Southwest, New York City's Tribeca Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival are all considered significant festivals for independent film.