Lake George Opera is a professional opera company based in
Saratoga Springs, New York. It performs an annual summer festival of three fully staged
operas and
operettas.
The company and its associated Lake George Opera Festival were founded in 1962 by Fred Patrick, a local businessman and the husband of
Jeanette Scovotti, a soprano who sang at the
Metropolitan Opera. The original performances took place at Diamond Point on the shores of
Lake George in upstate New York and later moved to the nearby town of
Queensbury. Since 1998, Lake George Opera's performance base has been the Spa Little Theater at the
Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
Several well-known opera singers performed with the company in the early stages of their careers, including
Catherine Malfitano,
Diana Soviero,
Eric Halfvarson and
Jerry Hadley.
World premieres
World premiere productions staged by the company include:
- Robert Baksa's Aria da Capo (1968)
- José Bernardo's The Child, based on José Martí's poem La Niña de Guatemala (1974)
- Glenn Paxton's The Adventures of Friar Tuck (1983)
