Tickets are going fast for the Monday, August 11 performance of Tobias Picker’s opera, An American Tragedy, which will be featured at the Glimmerglass Opera House in Cooperstown.
VIEW, the arts center in Old Forge, has organized a bus trip to Glimmerglass that includes round trip transportation on a luxury coach, level II seating, and a carryout lunch from the Mountainside Smokehouse and Grill in Eagle Bay.
The bus departs at 9:15 a.m. and tickets are $135
Tickets can be reserved by visiting ViewArts.org or calling (315) 369-6411, ext. 215.
Picker’s fourth opera portrays the darkest aspects of 1906 mysterious death of Grace Brown on Big Moose Lake, based on the novel, An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser.
The opera premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 2005 to great acclaim and has now been slightly revised in celebration of the composer’s 60th birthday.
