21 Oct 2008

Vienna director sick, but good music saves opera

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gsZ8EFeOtJFr3Knp1yDSCuaTp1WQD93ONN1O0

By GEORGE JAHN [AP, 12 October 2008]]
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Damnation was the dominant theme Saturday in a new Vienna State Opera production of Charles Gounod's Faust. But redemption triumphed in the form of wonderful singing and a powerful orchestral performance.