13 Nov 2009
You want to know what's wrong with the Met?
http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/091113-NL-MET.html
http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/091113-NL-MET.html
By Norman Lebrecht [La Scena Musicale, 13 November 2009]
If ever you need to know what’s wrong with the Metropolitan Opera and its press puppet, the New York Times, look no further than the opening paragraph of last weekend’s puff piece for tonight’s production of Janacek’s From the House of the Dead.