09 Dec 2006
'Arabella' Is Near-Perfect
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/09/AR2006120900658.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/09/AR2006120900658.html
By GEORGE JAHN [AP, 9 December 2006]
VIENNA, Austria -- What happens when some of the world's best musicians are paired with top voices under a masterful conductor in an opera production that plays it straight instead of usurping what the composer and librettist were trying to say?