American Tragedy

American Tragedy, Operatic Triumph? By ROBERT MOYNIHAN • allotsego.com Too many superlatives exist in this Glimmerglass production for reservations – yet a few exist. On the positive side, the staging is brilliant – with multiple levels originally seen in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” However, this staging far surpasses them. The horrible drowning – either by murder or accident – achieves a paradox of representative horror held within emotional bounds. So does the final electrocution, awful, but contained within…