Walkure

Fantastic review of the Met's Die Walkure, which is being broadcast on the radio on Saturday. In the UK, it's 6.30pm on Radio 3, or find your station here.

There were once The Three Tenors. Now, there's only The One -- still singing splendidly.

You know Im going to be taping it - a great advantage of digital TV is the ability to tape a five -and-three-quarter hour radio programme.

I think I'll need a day off sick next week...

Although Newsday obviously had a bad night out:

Levine's ideal pace defines the border between rapture and catatonia, but in this performance, slipped across the line and back several times... Fortunately, Deborah Voigt as Sieglinde coated the music with her demiglace soprano and kept trying to snap Domingo out of his cautious stupor. At five hours (including two intermissions), "Die Walküre" lasts long enough for singers to pass through several career phases between the prelude and the final curtain, but Voigt remained in her prime throughout.