About the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory and Facilities
...a full-time staff of voice teachers, coaches and a resident stage director, along with numerous guest artists. Students also have the opportunity to work with and perform the pieces of contemporary composers. At the start of the summer, the conservatory will gather in one of our newly renovated recital halls for the annual sing-in. Each singer presents one aria or song. Choose something you feel best showcases your voice. At the end of the summer,...
Two Leaders Join Chautauqua Institution Board of Trustees
New Trustee Class Began Term Oct. 1 Chautauqua Institution’s Board of Trustees elected Laurie Branch to a four-year term of service at the final meeting of the body’s 2021–22 cycle on Aug. 27. Additionally, members of the Chautauqua Corporation elected Sara Ponkow Falvo as the newest of the four trustees selected by Chautauqua property owners at the Corporation’s annual meeting on Aug. 19. The new trustee class officially began its term on Oct. 1. Branch,...
Fellowship Program
...only for the artist but also for audiences.” The Institution plans to continue the Fellowship Programs in upcoming seasons. In addition to receiving the same number of services and base pay as regular Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra musicians, Fellows will be provided housing and meals. Fellows also may have the opportunity perform in chamber ensembles as part of the Institution’s annual Resident Artist Chamber Music Series. Fellows and alumni have the opportunity to advance directly to...
Chautauqua Theater Company’s 34th Season comes to a close with the classic love story of Romeo and Juliet
Chautauqua, NY – Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Andrew Borba and Managing Director Sarah Clare Corporandy, will close its 34th season with William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, directed by Dawn Monique Williams. Romeo and Juliet will run August 11-18 at Bratton Theater. In Romeo and Juliet, perhaps the most famous ever written, love is romantic, overpowering, passionate, violent, and ultimately redemptive. The hot summer days of Verona create a pressure...
Chautauqua Lecture Series
Chautauqua Lecture Series 10:45 a.m. EDT Monday–Friday, Amphitheater Ideas and opinions are exchanged in an open, challenging atmosphere, and Chautauqua’s knowledgeable audiences have the opportunity to participate in question-and-answer sessions at the conclusion of the lectures. Week One • June 22–29 The Evolution of the Modern Presidency Like the world around it, the United States has undergone profound transformation since its founding. Has the office of the American presidency been similarly transformed since its conception...
Chautauqua Opera Company Announces Casting for 2017 Season
...grow and speak so directly to today’s audience, ” says General and Artistic Director Steven Osgood. In addition to the three mainstage productions, Chautauqua Opera’s 2017 season will include over 30 diverse events featuring the Chautauqua Opera Young Artists, including a new operatic revue for young audiences, concerts with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and six engaging pop-up events as part of the Opera Invasion series. The last week of Chautauqua Opera’s summer season (July 31-August...
Kerry Alys Robinson
...and FADICA (Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities), Kerry has been an advisor to and trustee of more than 25 grant-making foundations, charitable nonprofits, and family philanthropies. Kerry served as the executive director of the Opus Prize Foundation which is responsible for an annual international million-dollar prize honoring people of faith whose lives are dedicated to the alleviation of human suffering. Kerry served as the director of development for Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel...
Children’s School 4th of July Parade
Annual Children’s School Parade to Bestor Plaza. Join us as we celebrate our country and sing patriotic songs with the Thursday Morning Brass on the front steps of the Colonnade!...
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s The Fact of a Body Wins 2018 Chautauqua Prize
...will take place at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, in the Hall of Philosophy on the Institution’s grounds. Marzano-Lesnevich said she was honored to receive The Chautauqua Prize, and “that the award comes from an institution with such a long history of creating space for rigorous, rewarding interdisciplinary and cross-genre dialogue makes it particularly meaningful at this moment in our national history, with our urgent need for socially engaged art.” “I very much look forward...
Nicole Cuffy’s ‘Atlas of the Body’ Wins First-ever Chautauqua Janus Prize
...take place at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 25, in the Athenaeum Hotel Parlor on the Institution’s grounds. Her writing will also appear in a future issue of the literary journal Chautauqua. Cuffy described her excitement about the prize’s relevance to her work, saying that “in Atlas of the Body, I asked myself what would happen if I treated prose as more pointillistic than linear — if I used narrative to offer brief islands of illumination....