26 Jan 2006

Watching the Master Emerge, Circa 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/arts/music/salzburg-journal.html?8dpc

gardener_small.jpgSalzburg Journal

By JAMES R. OESTREICH [NY Times, 26 January 2006]

To say that Mozart’s opera “La Finta Giardiniera” (“The Fake Gardener,” 1775) is remarkable as a work of an 18-year-old grossly understates the case. The makings of the mature master begin to emerge here in abundance.