Glimmerglass Festival

The Festival invites you to immerse yourself in myth, mystery, and adventure as the repertory for the 2024 season explores the connection between identity and illusion.

Festival Schedule:

11:00 am: Preview Brunches

Get a sneak peek of the 2025 Festival season from Artistic & General Director Rob Ainsley and members of the 2024 Young Artists Program while you enjoy a delicious brunch catered by The Horned Dorset. Menus available in the spring; vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options always available.

Tickets: $65 per person

1:00pm: Elizabeth Cree

Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s modern masterpiece Elizabeth Cree rounds out the season’s mainstage roster in a new production directed by Alison Moritz, starring 2024 Artist-in-Residence Tara Erraught. Set in London in the 1880s, this highly suspenseful and theatrical opera interweaves several narratives: the trial of the titular heroine for the poisoning of her husband; a series of brutal murders committed by a Jack the Ripper-style killer; the spirited world of an English music hall; and, finally, some “guest appearances” by luminaries from the Victorian Age. Elizabeth Cree is a work that combines the factual with the fictive and the historical with the imaginary. Initially written for a small chamber ensemble, Elizabeth Cree will be performed with an expanded string complement at Glimmerglass.

MUSIC | Kevin Puts
LIBRETTO | Mark Campbell
SUNG IN | English
PROJECTED TEXT | English
RUN TIME | 1 hour 40 minutes (no intermission)

CONDUCTOR | Kelly Kuo
DIRECTOR | Alison Moritz
SET DESIGNER | Edward Morris
COSTUME DESIGNER | Amanda Seymour
LIGHTING DESIGNER | Kate Ashton
HAIR & MAKEUP DESIGNER | Tom Watson