Zambello brings personal touch to retooled Glimmerglass Festival

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.

Francesca Zambello, the stage director and newly minted impresario, sits at a corner table in the restaurant of the American Hotel in Sharon Springs at the end of the third week of the Glimmerglass Festival that, as of this year, is hers. Tall with strong features and a thick mane of dark hair and sporting a pair of cowboy boots, Zambello, on the cusp of 55, has the aura of someone who might have just stepped off the stage herself. The cowboy boots, indeed, are a nod to the afternoon's performance: Zambello's production of the classic Irving Berlin musical "Annie Get Your Gun," with the operatic soprano Deborah Voigt in the title role.

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Peter Wallsten 06 Aug, 2011

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