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Francesca Zambello ’78 started her first opera company when she was a student at Colgate. In an interview in today’s New York Times she talked about collaboration, learning to fail, and having the “leadership gene.” The interview appeared in the Corner Office Column which features top executives on the challenges of leading and managing.

For the next year, on the 13th of every month, Colgate community members will be celebrating the Year of ’13. Tonight, Director Francesca Zambello ’78, H’12 will mark the day in her own special way when she brings Hector Berlioz’ Les Troyens back to the Metropolitan Opera stage at 6 p.m.

It started out being about sex. But as Christina Liu ’13 was writing her play last summer, there was what she called “a distinct shift” in its direction. This Is Not a Play About Sex, for which Liu received a University Studies grant to write and direct, became about much more than her intended topics […]

When Simona Maicanescu took to the Brehmer Theater stage last weekend to perform Wallace Shawn’s The Fever, the connection between the work and the university was at first oblique. But her arresting performance of the 90-minute monologue on materialism, Marxism, and the inequitable distribution of wealth invited the kind of debate that takes place at […]