15 Nov 2007

Seattle Opera's version of Iphigenia: an exchange

http://www.crosscut.com/arts-beat/9025/

By David Brewster [Crosscut Seattle, 12 November 2007]

Seattle Opera's recent production of Gluck's rarely performed Iphigenia in Taurus was reviewed by Crosscut music critic Fred Hauptman, in an appraisal that was basically positive but critical of the cuts and substitutions of some music, calling them "disfiguring cuts and additions imposed upon a perfect original."