Monday, Jul 21, 2025 at 1:00pm
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 21, 2025
Sunday in The Park With George
1:00pm
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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