A new play by Peter Danish opening at New York’s New World Stages in March will reimagine a meeting between Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan
What better way to mark the passing of the monumental Hal Prince?
With the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Candide, they saved the best (of all possible worlds) for last.
“I think that if it’s not [Bernstein’s] worst, it surely reflects his worst tendencies…”
Well here we are, beloveds, still swathed in the warm glow of the Leonard Bernstein centennial. Box sets abound like bunnies in a hutch.
The opening night of the Metropolitan Opera of September 1972 was supposed to be the dawn of a new era.