27 May 2008

Burly and Savage, but Elegant: Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

http://www.nysun.com/arts/burly-and-savage-but-elegant-met-orchestra/78599/

By JAY NORDLINGER [NY Sun, 27 May 2008]

The Metropolitan Opera season is over, and so is the Met Orchestra season: Last week, that extraordinary band gave a final concert in Carnegie Hall. They are an opera orchestra that plays like an orchestra orchestra — a top-flight one.