A Night at the Opera

By Miles Saunders, WNED-TV senior producer

The Chautauqua summer season is a nine-week marathon. Set in the Chautauqua Institution's idyllic campus and unfolding throughout the comfortable summer on Chautauqua Lake, it all looks effortless.  It isn't.   Almost as soon as the last act leaves the stage in late August, the staff is busy planning the next summer's comprehensive list of lecturers, chaplains, guest conductors, theater stars and popular entertainment acts. They've been at it all winter and we got a sneak peek when four of Chautauqua's staff, Matt Ewalt, Marty Merkley, the Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell and George Murphy, came to WNED to tape the Chautauqua 2013 Season Preview airing Wednesday, March 20 at 11 p.m. on WNED-TV.   

A Blissful Microcosm

By Misty L. Harris

If a new visitor (without GPS or driving instructions) wasn’t attentive to the signs, he or she would miss the Chautauqua Institution altogether. With its brick walls and towering trees, the average eye would be clueless to the wonders that lie inside.