… or the not to be mourned end. The discussion in the comments of the Slipped Disk site covers all the bases. Peter Gelb referred to it as a recalcitrant “pet that bites you”. Quel creep.
On the other hand I found Opera News’ reviews a sad case study of smart writers who had rendered themselves unable to convincingly parse the good or bad of contemporary work because of their ideological blockade of it in total.
