27 May 2006
At Los Angeles Opera, Questions and Costs Follow 'Grendel'
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/arts/music/27gren.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/27/arts/music/27gren.html
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI [NY Times, 27 May 2006]
LOS ANGELES, May 26 — The 20th-anniversary season of the Los Angeles Opera was supposed to culminate on Saturday night with the premiere of "Grendel," a new opera by the composer Elliot Goldenthal, directed by Julie Taymor, who is also a co-librettist with the poet J. D. McClatchy.