Chautauqua Opera Company Opens with Light Comedy
CHAUTAUQUA — The Chautauqua Opera Company is starting off the 2008 season with light comedy and the beautiful music of Mozart. ‘‘Cosi Fan Tutte’’ is the title. It translates something like ‘‘They’re all like that,’’ and it refers to women. The libretto, by Lorenzo da Ponte, is very light. Two young soldiers are engaged to marry a pair of beautiful Italian sisters. At the curtain, they’re in a tavern and their extravagant praise for the goodness and faithfulness of their fiancees catches the attention of a cynical philosopher named Don Alfonso. He proposes a test: the two will tell their beloveds that they must leave town and go to war. Immediately after leaving, they will return in disguise and try to seduce their own fiancees away from their avowed faithfulness. The performance runs well over three hours, and once we know which way the women will go, it begins to feel too long. But, the music is wonderful, the singing is outstanding, all six members of the cast are very good lookin
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SHERMAN — For members of the band Donna the Buffalo, the Great Blue Heron Music Festival is more than just the start of the summer festival season — it’s a coming together of friends and family.
Having headlined the annual event each year
Silverlined
Twenty years into their career as a band, Donna the Buffalo’s members have made an album that serves equally as a capstone achievement and introduction to new listeners.
To longtime fans, ‘‘Silverlined’’ will seem a victory lap for the ba
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The Dog Days Of Summer may technically begin this weekend, but forecasts are calling for a cool and partially-cloudy 70 degree weekend this Friday, Saturday and Sunday — perfect for enjoying the Great Blue Heron Music Festival and all the other enter
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See Jeff James serve up coffee drinks at the Labyrinth Press Company on Thursday as part of his business's one year anniversary party. Christopher Bell and Hot Stenographer are slated to play at 9 and 11 p.m. respectively. The Labyr
‘Death Of A Salesman’ Done Marvelously At Chautauqua
CHAUTAUQUA — One of the finest American plays ever written is on the stage of Chautauqua’s Bratton Family Theater this week, in a production as good as the play itself.
If you were one of those slugs who read the abbreviated notes when yo
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