Seagle Festival celebrates 108th season

SCHROON LAKE — Seagle Festival is celebrating its 108th season in 2023, continuing as the premiere opera and musical theatre producing organization in the Adirondack region, as well as the oldest summer vocal training program in the U.S.

Coming out of pandemic protocols, Seagle Festival is excited to have a return to normal this summer and fall. The fourshow mainstage summer season will begin with Gounod’s glorious operatic telling of “Roméo et Juliette,” sung in French with English supertitles.

The opera is followed by Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music,” and the contemporary opera “With Blood, With Ink” by composer Daniel Crozier and librettist Peter Krask. The opera tells the story of inspirational 17th century Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the “Phoenix of America”.

The mainstage summer season will conclude with the ever-popular “Fiddler on the Roof” by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Also included in the summer season is a special cabaret-style revue concert featuring the male Seagle Festival Emerging Artists, entitled “The Boys of Summer.”

Through the summer and into the school year, Seagle Festival will continue its focus on cultivating new audiences by presenting the children’s opera “The Ugly Duckling” by Andrew Duncan. Touring the region in the early fall will be a revue of music of the wellknown musical theater writing team Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, affectionately titled “Almost Like Being in Love.”

All the summer and fall productions will feature the 32 talented 2023 Seagle Festival Emerging Artists, an elite group chosen from a field of hundreds of applicants. Alongside the performances, the Emerging Artists will participate in career training to help propel them into their professional careers. For more information on these productions and more, visit SeagleFestival.org.