09 Nov 2006

An Opera Returns, Like the Tide

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/arts/music/09dom.html

Kasarova_Hosl.png(Photo: Wilfried Hösl)
By BERNARD HOLLAND [NY Times, 9 November 2006]

The argument doesn’t exactly rage but it does go on — why does some music live past its own age, while some is very nearly left behind? One answer is a certain kind of quality, a genetic makeup that appeals as much now as it did then. There is also luck, good and bad.