NEW YORK E PARIS (NYTIMES)

Ban on Solo Encores at the Met? Ban, What Ban?
By DANIEL J. WAKIN

Sara Krulwich/The New York TimesJuan Diego Flórez in “Fille du Régiment” at the Metropolitan Opera.
On Monday night the tenor Juan Diego Flórez did something not heard on the Met stage since 1994: a solo encore.
Music Review 'La Fille du Régiment'

Counting a Tenor’s High C’s in ‘Fille du Régiment’ at the Metropolitan
By BERNARD HOLLAND
The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Donizetti’s “Fille du Régiment” is visually drab but industriously comic.
Music Review ‘Il Prigioniero’

A 12-Tone Cry of Despair Assaults Hearts in Paris
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
In this stark staging, Luigi Dallapiccola’s “Il Prigioniero” emerged as an intensely dramatic, musically arresting and grimly moving work.
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