26 Jul 2006

How Mariinsky's Maestro Saved the Day for Opera Holland Park

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aPKv12c0DPaY&refer=culture

Warwick Thompson [Bloomberg.com, 26 July 2006]

July 26 (Bloomberg) -- Opera Holland Park was in crisis. Producer James Clutton had taken a risk in staging Tchaikovsky's ``The Queen of Spades,'' a brilliant operatic study of obsession, twisted love and the occult.