NYTIMES

• Arts / Music
  Doggedly Running the Laps Demanded by the ‘Ring’
  By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
  Published: July 21, 2007
  When the Kirov Opera ends its residency at the Lincoln Center Festival tonight, Valery Gergiev will have conducted his company in two overlapping cycles of Wagner’s “Ring des Nibelungen” over nine days.

• Music Review Così Fan Tutte
  Springing Into an Exam of Operatic Ensemble Work
  By BERNARD HOLLAND
  Published: July 21, 2007
  “Prelude to Performance,” a six-week summer school and workshop devised by the Martina Arroyo Foundation, seems to favor the shock value of sudden difficulty.
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