14 Oct 2005

Unsingable Maybe, Yet 'Daphne' Blooms

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/14/arts/music/14daph.html

strauss_richard_small.jpgBy Anne Midgett [NY Times, 14 October 2005]

"Daphne" is the story of a woman who turns into a tree. Dramatic? Indubitably. Operatic? It depends on your outlook. After all, what you're left with, after the coup de théâtre, is a singing tree, which cannot but strike some listeners as a wee bit static. "Aida" it's not.