Opening Nights and Otherwise by Sedgwick Clark Deep thought of the day: Every performance is different. Second deep thought: Every listener hears the performance differently. Two weeks ago I wrote at the end of my “Valery the Variable” blog that opening-night critics had lambasted Valery Gergiev’s conducting of The Metropolitan Opera’s Eugene Onegin (9/23) as unbearably slow and stodgy. Having found in the past that the last performance in a series was his best, I deliberately waited for the sixth and last one (10/12) and found that I “couldn’t imagine more effective, naturally flowing tempos.” musicalamerica/mablogs/?p=14383#sthash.qjRHXPSN.dpuf
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:52:36 +0000
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