The Glimmerglass Festival (August 2020) - CANCELLED

Cooperstown is more than just baseball. The village at the southern tip of New York's Otsego Lake is also home to the Glimmerglass Festival, known for exciting opera productions that feature singers, directors and designers from around the world. At Glimmerglass, we will see two highlights of the 2020 festival, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved The Sound of Music and Wagner’s rarely staged Die Feen. We will be staying at the historic Otesaga Resort Hotel, a Cooperstown landmark noted for its impeccable hospitality, first-class accommodations and fine dining. Other highlights of this tour include visits to sites linked to the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers, two of the most celebrated families of the Gilded Age. CANCELLED

Pittsburgh & Falling Water (October 2020) - CANCELLED

Pittsburgh’s steel mills closed long ago and today it regularly tops the lists of 'best cities to live' and 'coolest neighborhoods' in America. This tour’s musical highlights will be performances by its symphony, opera and ballet in the restored, grand movies palaces which they call home. In addition to Pittsburgh’s great museums bearing the names of Carnegie, Frick, Heinz and Warhol, we will visit Falling Water, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar Kaufmann, scion of a Pittsburgh department store magnate, and the 9/11 Flight 93 National Memorial. (October 16-19, 2020)

Philadelphia - Art, Music & Film (January 2021) - CANCELLED

Brace yourself for an eclectic Philadelphia experience. For classical music lovers, there will be Opera Philadelphia’s performances of Stravinsky’s Les Noces and Oedipus Rex (described by Leonard Bernstein as the Russian composer’s ‘most awesome’ work) at the ornate Academy of Music, the oldest opera house in the United States. Film buffs will delight in Jurassic Park projected in HD with the Philadelphia Orchestra performing John’s Williams’ score. There will be also be private guided tours of the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well visits to Fonthill Castle and the Mercer Museum, where one enters the world of an American original — archeologist, artifact collector, tile-maker and designer Henry Mercer. (January 29-31, 2020)

Brooklyn Botanic Garden offers 'loved', a site-specific sound installation created by NYC-based composer Michael Gordon to honor those we have lost in the pandemic.

As a way of processing and reflecting on the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, Brooklyn Botanic Garden offers loved performed by percussionist David Cossin. The meditative composition for seven vibraphones plays hourly on Cherry Esplanade.  For more information, click here.

Live performances are back! The Shed presents 'An Audience with..."

After a year spent without indoor performances, The Shed is presenting a five-performance series featuring singer and cellist Kelsey Lu on April 2, musicians of the New York Philharmonic on April 14 and 15, soprano Renée Fleming, Bill Frisell, Christian McBride, and Dan Tepfer on April 21, and comedian Michelle Wolf on April 22. Program information about each performance will be announced soon. For more information, click here. 

The New York Choral Society performs Alice Parker’s "God Is Seen"