Our Town 2006

'The Capital Region's most significant cultural event of the year...Rorem and McClathcy's Our Town had me in tears by the end, and its moods have stayed with me since. I have no doubt that it will become a favorite of the opera stage, and we're more fortunate than we probably know to have merited these early performances.'

- B.A. Nilsson, Metroland Magazine

'Both the work...and the production...are accomplished and polished...It felt just right in the intimate Spa Little Theater and will surely be a new benchmark of accomplishment for the Lake George Opera, which co-commissioned the work.'

- Joseph Dalton, Times Union

'The Lake George Opera presented the first professional performance of Ned Rorem's 'Our Town' Saturday night at the Spa Little Theater in what was a stunning success.'

- Geraldine Freedman, The Sunday Gazette

'[Stage Director Nelson Sheeley] is to be commended for helping the cast to create vivid characters who linger in memory, not settling for the broad strokes usually seen even in contemporary American opera, and he had the cast to pull it off.'

- Doug de Lisle, The Record

'The singing is intelligent, articulate, and in character. Tenor Robert Swensen as the Stage Manager, our guide to the doings and deeper meanings of life in Grover's Corners, is gentle and welcoming, even tender in scenes with Emily. He has a great range, reaching to powerful falsetto in his guise as the minister for Emily and George's wedding. His manner is plain, his wisdom bottomless.'

- Mae G. Banner, The Saratogian