Acting, singing, staging ignite in Syracuse Opera’s ‘Glory Denied’
The company mounts a riveting production of Tom Cipullo’s opera about America’s longest-held POW
By David Abrams
From 1964 through his release from North Vietnam in 1973, Colonel Jim Thompson held the unfortunate distinction of being America’s longest-held prisoner of war. Upon release he returned home to a country, and marriage, that was largely unrecognizable from what he had left nine years earlier…