Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ 

Sun., July 21 at 10:45 a.m. | Mon., July 22 – Fri., July 26 at 9:15 a.m.

Praised by NPR for their “upbeat, poppy vibe; energetic, driving rhythms; virtuosic solos” and “tight harmonies,” this acoustic quartet deftly reimagines pop, rock and disco favorites.

“New Every Morning”
Hymns and Storytelling with Ken Medema, The Chautauqua Choir, and Congregation

June 23–July 22 | Opening Reception: Sunday, June 23, 3–5 p.m.

This exhibition featuring new work by Daisy Patton explores female relationships. 

Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ 

Sun., July 21 at 10:45 a.m. | Mon., July 22 – Fri., July 26 at 9:15 a.m.

Trevor Cox is a professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford, where his research and teaching focuses on architectural acoustics, signal processing and audio perception.

Spencer W. McBride is an historian and documentary editor at The Joseph Smith Papers and the author of Pulpit and Nation: Clergymen and the Politics of Revolutionary America.

Alicia Jones, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Indiana University Bloomington

Praised for a “rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex than the sum of its parts,” (National Public Radio) New York Polyphony is one of the foremost vocal chamber ensembles active today.

Kazem Abdullah, guest conductor | The Music School Festival Orchestra (MSFO) is comprised of 81 of the world’s most promising young musicians who are admitted through a competitive audition process.

Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ 

Sun., July 21 at 10:45 a.m. | Mon., July 22 – Fri., July 26 at 9:15 a.m.

Larry P. Arnn is the 12th president of Hillsdale College, where he also serves as a professor of politics and history, teaching courses on Aristotle, Winston Churchill, and the American Constitution.

Patrick Mason is the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies and Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, where he also serves as Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities. 

William Casto, Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Law, Texas Tech University, and author, Advising the President.

Into the Music No. 3 | Rossen Milanov, conductor | JP Bonnefoux, director, School of Dance | Featuring students from the Chautauqua School of Dance | Repertoire: Igor Stravinsky: Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée (The Fairy's Kiss)...

Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ 

Sun., July 21 at 10:45 a.m. | Mon., July 22 – Fri., July 26 at 9:15 a.m.

Julie A. Washington is the chair and a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the College of Education and Human Development at Georgia State University in Atlanta. 

Teaching artists Charles Malone (Wick Poetry Center) and Sony Ton-Aime (Chautauqua Literary Arts graduate fellow) will share selections from the Speak A Powerful Magic poetry anthology, as well as writing prompts that inspired some of the poems in the book.

Rev. Elaine D. Thomas, M.S. has worked in the metaphysical field for 49 years as a medium, healer, spiritual counselor, and teacher, primarily at the Lily Dale Assembly in Western New York, founded in 1879, the world's original and largest Center for the Religion of Spiritualism.

Chautauqua Literary Arts Lecture:"The Role of the Poet," Shara McCallum poet-in-residence.

Acrobatics, tumbling, a flaming limbo far, skip rope footwork and African drumming and dancing are just some of the electrifying feats that await you with Jabali African Acrobats. 

Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ 

Sun., July 21 at 10:45 a.m. | Mon., July 22 – Fri., July 26 at 9:15 a.m.

J. Ekela Kaniaupio-Crozier is the E Ola! Learning Designer and Facilitator at Kamehameha Schools Maui, where she provides campus support to provide a world class Hawaiian culture-based education to haumāna (students). 

Adam Jortner, Goodwin-Philpott Professor of History at Auburn University, is a specialist in the early American republic, with particular emphasis on religion and politics. 

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear―they all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated by sign language. 

Get all the colorful details about Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) from General & Artistic Director, Steven Osgood, and hear excerpts from the opera performed by Chautauqua Opera Young Artists.

In Rossini’s lively comic opera, a young Count Almaviva (in disguise) is wooing the spirited and savvy Rosina, Dr. Bartolo’s young ward. Dr. Bartolo plans to marry Rosina himself, but Seville’s favorite trickster, Figaro, is on the scene to foil his schemes and help the young lovers unite, with hilarity and hijinks aplenty.

Back at Chautauqua by popular demand, Rhiannon Giddens is the co-founder of the Grammy Award-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, was awarded a 2017 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and won the 2016 Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Bluegrass and Banjo.

Senior Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ 

Sun., July 21 at 10:45 a.m. | Mon., July 22 – Fri., July 26 at 9:15 a.m.

The Chautauqua Boys’ and Girls’ Club will compete to see who can out-sing the Chautauqua Opera Young Artists.

Joshua Bennett is a poet and the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. His first work of narrative nonfiction, Spoken Word: A Cultural History, is forthcoming from Knopf.

Philip Gulley is a Quaker pastor, writer and speaker from Danville, Indiana.

Get all the colorful details about ¡Figaro! (90210) from General & Artistic Director, Steven Osgood, and hear excerpts from the opera performed by Chautauqua Opera Young Artists.

Paul Stob, Vanderbilt University

Vid Guerrerio’s contemporary multicultural adaptation of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro sets the action in modern-day Beverly Hills. Hollywood elite Paul and Roxanne Conti (Count Almaviva and Rosina) are now married with a daughter, and Figaro and his soon-to-be-bride Susana are undocumented workers on their estate. 

How hard can it be to have two jobs? This hilarious adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s Comedia masterpiece The Servant of Two Masters plants us in Brighton in 1963.

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, “the king and queen of the banjo” (Paste Magazine), have a musical partnership like no other. Béla Fleck is a sixteen-time Grammy Award winner who has taken the instrument across multiple genres, and Abigail Washburn a singer-songwriter and clawhammer banjo player...

Jim Marggraff, entrepreneur and inventor; author, How to Raise a Founder with Heart

Comprised of pianist Jon Nakamatsu and clarinetist Jon Manasse, two of America’s most distinguished artists, the Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo formed in 2004...

Get all the colorful details about The Ghosts of Versailles from General & Artistic Director, Steven Osgood, and hear excerpts from the opera performed by Chautauqua Opera Apprentice Artists.

How hard can it be to have two jobs? This hilarious adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s Comedia masterpiece The Servant of Two Masters plants us in Brighton in 1963.

Marie Antoinette and her court are bored of the afterlife, and bitter about their deaths. The love-struck ghost of Beaumarchais believes he can change the queen’s untimely fate by using the power of art. He brings his beloved Figaro and company back to life in a new opera, but when Figaro refuses to...