Cooperstown, NY is your summer home for opera.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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Sweeney Todd cuts heads at this year's Glimmerglass Festival. Photo of the Alice Busch Opera Theater © Glimmerglass Festival. |
Strong and fair, see it stand on the northeast bank of Lake Otsego, that famed body of water featured in the Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper. It’s the Alice Busch Opera House, home of the Glimmerglass Festival, Cooprstown, New York’s most significant contribution to the performing arts.