09 Jul 2009
Mortier Leaves Paris With an Ending That’s a Beginning
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/arts/music/09bastille.html?scp=3&sq=&st=nyt
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https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo43988096.html
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809636
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https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-operas-of-benjamin-britten.html
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https://h-france.net/vol18reviews/vol18no52palidda.pdf
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2018/08/glyndebourne_an.php
A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/arts/music/09bastille.html?scp=3&sq=&st=nyt
By Steven Erlanger [NY Times, 9 July 2009]
PARIS — Much of the world may have been watching the obsequies for Michael Jackson, which were also shown live on French television, but a different kind of artistic farewell also took place here on Tuesday night: the premiere of a theatrical work by the German painter Anselm Kiefer, the last commission of Gerard Mortier’s tenure as director of the Paris Opera.