Quote For The Remains Of This Impoverished Decade? ... (Paging All Remaining Librettists And Composers ...)

"If the décor-mad Franco Zeffirelli set the tone in previous decades, [Robert] Lepage — who made his Met début in 2008, with a technologically dazzling, emotionally arid “Damnation of Faust” — now seems the presiding spirit."

Alex Ross "House of Style: A bumpy season at the Met" The New Yorker March 29, 2010.

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Header photo: (c) Ken Howard for the Metropolitan Opera 2008. Copyright controlled.

Is John Relyea going to wear the same costume in Gounod's "Faust", this summer in San Francisco, as he wore in Berlioz's "Damnation of Faust" in New York City?

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On the Economic front:



Source: OECD

OECD contributes to G20 efforts to bring public finances under control

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