COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Two topiary elephants greet visitors as they stroll up the lawn toward the Alice Busch Opera Theater for this year’s Glimmerglass Festival.
The creatures, made of grapevine and willow over a rebar frame, are called “the Aida elephants,” but the charming sight is worlds apart from the grim spectacle that confronts the audience when the curtain rises on Verdi’s opera, the summer’s opening production.
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