GLIMMERGLASS OPERA Four staged operas — and an oratorio — on the subject of Orpheus and Eurydice.
This week brings four staged performances of "Company," starring Neil Patrick Harris, Christina Hendricks, Stephen Colbert, and Jon Cryer.
In addition to four staged performances of Mozart's "Magic Flute," musicians will appear in smaller spaces, from churches to a museum.
The festival also offers four staged readings of plays under the rubric "New German Voices," and three panel discussions with so-called Creatives, Critics and Creators.
"Bobby baby, Bobby baby, Bobby baby": that nagging refrain is the musical default position of the 1970 Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical "Company," which had the first of four staged concert performances at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday evening.
Peter Keuschnig leads the Ensemble Kontrapunkte of Vienna in four staged performances "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" by Viktor Ullmann, one of the composers imprisoned at the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt in Czechoslavia.
