SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. â Opera Saratoga has announced the companyâs return to the stage for its 60th anniversary, with a season of performances inspired by the iconic novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
Working closely with a team of medical professionals and a dedicated COVID safety officer, Opera Saratoga is committed to bringing audiences and artists together safely for the 2021 Summer Festival, which will be produced outdoors during June and July in partnership with Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Spa State Park and Pitney Meadows Community Farm to provide three unique performance spaces for audiences to safely enjoy two fully staged productions and a special concert.
Opera Saratoga Announces 60th Anniversary Summer Festival
Opera Saratoga will present MAN OF LA MANCHA featuring Broadway and Opera star Zachary James in the role of Cervantes / Don Quixote.by Chloe Rabinowitz
Opera Saratoga has announced today the company s return to the stage for its 60th Anniversary with a season of performances inspired by the iconic novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Working closely with a team of medical professionals and a dedicated COVID Safety Officer, Opera Saratoga is committed to bringing audiences and artists together safely for the 2021 Summer Festival, which will be produced outdoors during June and July in partnership with the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Spa State Park, and Pitney Meadows Community Farm to provide three unique performance spaces for audiences to safely enjoy two fully staged productions and a special concert.
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One year after the onset of the pandemic, most American theaters are languishing in the dark. But performers are still competing for our eyeballs through ever-more-sophisticated slates of virtual entertainment. Polished, highly-produced events in the vein of “Saturday Night Seder” have attempted to reproduce the intimacy and immediacy of live theater, lulling us via special effects into believing that we’ve emerged from our crumb-speckled couches into the darkened auditoriums of yore.
Until I tuned into “Megillah Cycle,” a modernist Yiddish take on the Purim spiel staged virtually by the Congress for Jewish Culture, I didn’t realize I’d been craving the opposite. I wanted virtual theater that acknowledged that making art from home is an inherently weird enterprise. I wanted virtual theater that reflected the social isolation of this moment rather than ignoring it. I wanted virtual theater that didn’t pretend to be something else.