- 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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