Opera Chic is heading out this weekend, not to Montauk or Newport, but to the quaint upstate New York destination of Cooperstown (actually, about eight miles north of Cooperstown proper, at the Alice Busch Opera Theater).
We fear that there won't be enough time to visit The Baseball Hall of Fame, as we have crammed in an efficient itinerary of All Things Orpheus that the Glimmerglass Opera has organized for this year's festival, and are totally looking forward to meeting the lovely faces behind the organization.
Sampling three of the opera works inspired by the Orpheus myth (although Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld gets the axe, and we are regrettably unable to attend Haydn's treat L'Anima del Filosofo), OC will be at Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice (Berlioz version), Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, and Philip Glass' Orphée (Glass' libretto based almost word-for-word from Jean Cocteau's 1949 film Orphée).
With the blessings of enabled blackjacks and wireless macbooks, reports from the road will hopefully follow. This weekend, I'm it. I'm Glimmerglass.