WSJ: 2025 Glimmerglass Festival Review: Singing Across Centuries

[MezzA101]

WSJ: 2025 Glimmerglass Festival Review: Singing Across Centuries#1

Posted: 8/14/25 at 4:29pm

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[Owen22]

WSJ: 2025 Glimmerglass Festival Review: Singing Across Centuries#2

Posted: 8/15/25 at 1:21pm

I saw Sunday at Glimmerglass last month and it wasn't very good, despite an amazing lead performance by John Riddle who leaned into George's Spectrum'd personality in the first act.  Unfortunately, Glimmerglass is primarily an opera company, so, though it might have been one of the more glorious SOUNDING Sunday's I've seen, the acting was at times 8th-Grade-School-Play bad. And it wasn't particularly well directed. The director never once showed us the actual painting the actors were recreating.  A big mistake, especially at the end of the first act.