the Q review

Ken Quandt is our roving Opera Correspondent, Classicist in Residence, Translator of Significant Works, Geometer of the Nearly Parallel, and Minister Without Portfolio for classics without walls.

Reviews of Olivier Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise:

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Other Q reviews:

World Première: Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater (Bastille, April. 2006)

World Première: John Adams’s Doctor Atomic (San Francisco Opera, Oct. 2005)

A What Do I Listen For Next? Diary, Chicago Lyric Opera (April 2005)

Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (Bastille, April 2005)