Caroga Arts Collective
Reimagining the Adirondack Experience through the Power of the Arts
A Night at the Opera
July 26 @ 7:00 pm
Saturday, July 26th, 2025
7:00 pm
Sherman’s Park, Pavilion Stage
Sponsor: Cook Wealth Management Group
Tickets:
$15 General Admission
$30 Pavilion
Free general admission for students 17 and under!
Caroga Arts offers FREE admission to concert goers 17 and under for all Caroga Arts presented concerts at Sherman’s.
Vendors: Stump City Brewing, Mega Bites, Nikki Wolfe Stir the Pot Kettle Corn, and Annabels Pizza
Jeannie Im has performed extensively in operas and concerts in the U.S. and throughout Europe. She was recently noted by Opera News for her “gorgeous line and touching intensity”as Fiordiligi. Her operatic roles performed include Queen of the Night, Fiordiligi, Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Cleopatra, Zerlina, and Pamina. She has sung at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Altenburger Musikfestival, Elysium Festival Bernried, Bel Canto at Caramoor, California Music Festival, among other venues. Her concert work includes several performances at Carnegie Hall, in addition to numerous concerts in New York and throughout Europe under the auspices of Elysium-Between Two Continents. She has also been a regularly featured soloist both as a singer and a bass violist da gamba, with the Center for Early Music at NYU.
Glen Cortese has had hundreds of guest engagements as the conductor of dozens of orchestras, opera companies and summer festivals around the world.
He has appeared with the New Jersey Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic, the Belarus State Philharmonic, Sofia Philharmonic, the National Romanian Radio Orchestra the the Slovak Radio Orchestra and the Mexico City Philharmonic. His opera credits include the New York City Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, Wolftrap Opera, the Cleveland Lyric Opera and the Eugene Opera.
His credits in the world of dance include performances with the Connecticut Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the Elisa Monte Dance Company and he appeared regularly for five years as music director for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Joyce Theatre and on national tours.
A champion of new music, Glen has conducted over 150 premieres, working in direct collaboration with composers such as Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, John Corigliano, George Crumb, Richard Danielpour, Peter Maxwell Davies, Lukas Foss, Hans Werner Henze, and Ralph Shapey.
His work in education is extensive, including leading the orchestra at the Manhattan School of Music for twelve seasons, where he was the eight-time recipient of the ASCAP New and Adventuresome Programming Award for his work there. He has created community outreach programs, educational concerts and children’s videos on classical music.
He was an assistant conductor to the New York Philharmonic from 1990–92 for Zubin Mehta and in July of 1993, he was invited by Kurt Masur to guest conduct a reading with the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.
Glen is also an award-winning composer, having won the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a two-time winner of the Joseph E. Bearns Prize.
At present he is the music director of the Greeley Philharmonic in Colorado and the artistic director of the Western New York Chamber Orchestra. He was named music director emeritus of the Oregon Mozart Players after serving as artistic director for nine seasons.
2025 CLMF supporters receive early access to tickets for individual shows.
Individual tickets for the public go on sale on April 17th, 2025.