John Simon [Bloomberg.com, 8 July 2008]
July 8 (Bloomberg) — The Park Avenue Armory is the site of “Die Soldaten,” Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s 1965 12-tone opera in a gargantuan production imported to Manhattan from Germany for the Lincoln Center Festival. It fills out what used to be the Drill Hall of the elite Seventh Regiment, whose drills may have been more musical than Zimmermann’s opera.