The Glimmerglass Festival’s exhilarating 50th anniversary season centers artists and creators, celebrates opera and musical theater legends, and introduces a thrilling world premiere opera based on a beloved book.

Mainstage productions will include Tosca (Puccini/Illica & Giacosa), Sunday in The Park With George (Sondheim/Sondheim & Lapine), The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky/Auden & Kallman), the World Premiere of The House on Mango Street (Bermel/Cisneros), based on the classic book. The Festival is also proud to bring former Artistic Director Francesca Zambello’s acclaimed original production of Odyssey (Moore/Rourke) to the Alice Busch Opera Theater for the first time.

Schedule

July 19, 2025

The Rake's Progress

1:00pm

Music by Igor Stravinsky/Libretto by W.H. Auden & Chester Kallman

A debonair stranger, Nick Shadow, appears to Tom Rakewell and tempts him with the chance to reimagine his future. As Nick conjures a series of enticing adventures for Tom, Anne Trulove fights for Tom’s salvation. Written in Stravinsky’s neoclassical period, Stravinsky’s only full-length opera score sparkles with elegant vocal writing and lively dance rhythms.

Conductor | Joseph Colaneri

Director/Choreographer | Eric Sean Fogel

Set Designer | John Conklin

Costume Designer | Lynly Saunders

Lighting Designer | Robert Wierzel

Hair & Make-up | Tom Watson

Generously Sponsored by | Elizabeth M. and Jean-Marie R. Eveillard

2025 Festival Dinners

5:30pm

Enjoy dinner, drinks, and conversation with friends and artists from the 2025 Festival. The Horned Dorset will cater all Festival Dinners. Menus are available in the spring; vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options are always available.

TICKETS - $75 per person

VENUE - Pavilion

Sunday in The Park With George

7:30pm

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by James Lapine

Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine

Orchestrations by Michael Starobin

Originally Produced on Broadway by The Shubert Organization and Emanuel Azenberg

By arrangement with Playwrights Horizons, Inc. New York City which produced the original production of Sunday in The Park With George in 1983.

Inspired by Georges Seurat’s groundbreaking painting, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, this musical is a meditation on the artistic process, seen through the eyes of Georges Seurat in 1884 and an imagined great-grandson, also an artist, in 1984. Nominated for 10 Tony Awards and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Sondheim’s innovative score explores pointillism in sound before opening out into one of the most glorious choral finales in the repertory.

This production of Sunday in The Park With George was licensed by Music Theatre International.

Conductor | Michael Ellis Ingram

Conductor (August 17 Performance Only) | Luke Poeppel

Director | Ethan Heard

Set Designer | John Conklin

Costume Designer | Beth Goldenberg

Lighting Designer | Amith Chandrashaker

Movement Director | Madison Hertel

Projections Designer | Greg Emetaz

Sound Designer | Joel Morain

Hair & Makeup Designer | Tom Watson

Generously Sponsored by | Ted Snowdon and Duffy Violante

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