Cleveland Orchestra shows off operatic muscle in Wagner program
By Zachary Lewis, The Plain Dealer
Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” may be in for royal treatment by the Cleveland Orchestra in March, but another operatic heavyweight, Wagner, held sway at Severance Hall last week.
Delving into a realm as vast as Mozart’s, music director Franz Welser-Most took listeners on a brisk but engrossing tour of Wagner in an unusual program made up almost entirely of operatic orchestral music.
The program, an eclectic survey of the composer’s early, later, popular and obscure creations, likely made legions of new Wagner fans and went down for posterity — loud coughs and a few orchestral missteps notwithstanding — in the form of a recording by Deutsche Grammophon…for more http://www.cleveland.com/musicdance/index.ssf/2010/02/cleveland_orchestra_shows_off.html
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