The Transcendent Meditation; Pfitzner's Mystical `Palestrina' Gets American Debut at Met

The Washington Post | July 28, 1997| | Copyright

After 80 years, Hans Pfitzner's grave, stately, radiant and beautiful opera "Palestrina" (1917) finally came to America last week, when the Lincoln Center Festival 97 presented three performances here at the Metropolitan Opera House.

"Palestrina" is apparently not for everybody; the Met had hundreds of empty seats during the short run, and the reviews in New York have been mostly negative or befuddled. But those of us who take to "Palestrina" take to it wholeheartedly; as one who has loved this music since Deutsche Grammophon released an excellent complete recording in 1973, I watched ...

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