22 Oct 2005

A Composer Happily Returns to 'The Mines'

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/arts/music/21benn.html

bennett_small.jpgBy ANTHONY TOMMASINI [NY Times, 21 October 2005]

THE history of opera is filled with stories of great works that were received indifferently at their premieres and then slipped into oblivion, only to receive their due many years later. But this was not the case with "The Mines of Sulphur."