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Classical Music Reviews Archive

April 12, 2004
Near Myth

Marvin David Levy’s attempt to bring O’Neill’s Americanized Greeks to the opera stage is still a victim of sixties classical conventions.

August 27, 2001
Roman Charges

The Rape of Lucretia
Agrippina
Both at the Glimmerglass Festival.

June 17, 2002
Soul Man

New York Philharmonic

December 14, 1998
In Brief:
"The Mahler Broadcasts, 1948-1982"
July 24, 2000
Les Misérables

Glimmerglass returns to "La Bohème" 25 years after its inaugural staging (this time with a darker vision), and excavates a forgotten operetta by John Philip Sousa.

June 18, 2001
Too Darn Hot

Diary of One Who Vanished

December 9, 2002
Mass Appeal

Why Bernstein’s roundly hated Mass is actually quite lovable; La Wally— bellissimo verismo; an homage-gone-awry to a legendary French chanteuse.

March 15, 2004
Talent in Spades

A young soprano makes a splashing Met debut in The Queen of Spades; Cecilia Bartoli rescues Antonio Salieri from obscurity—and blandness.

October 27, 2003
Baton-a-Thon

The indefatigable Gergiev conducts a splendid Romeo and Juliet (among many other things), while Maazel renders Shakespeare soulless.

December 20, 1999
Cecilia Bartoli
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