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Francesca Zambello ’78, an internationally renown director who has worked at many of the world’s major opera houses, will assume the reins of  in Cooperstown, NY.

Zambello’s appointment to general and artistic director of the 35-year-old summer opera festival made headlines this week in regional and national media.

“I have been after her for, oh, most of the decade,” Sherwin Goldman, president of Glimmerglass’s board, told The Wall Street Journal.

Her first experience with Glimmerglass was directing Iphigénie en Tauride in 1997.

“There I discovered a vibrant theater and a company renowned for innovative productions as well as a training ground for all disciplines set in stunningly beautiful surroundings,” Zambello, who currently serves as artistic adviser to the San Francisco Opera, said in a statement.

“It is a great honor and personal pleasure to be invited to lead the company.”

The first woman to direct an opera at the Met, Zambello also led the Broadway production of Disney’s The
Little Mermaid as well as the touring production of Little House on the Prairie.

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