Opéra Magazine's September 2021 pick of the month

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Every month, France's Opéra Magazine rates new recordings (CD and video) on a scale from 1 to 5 and hands out the occasional 'Diamant' ('Diamond') award to what it considers exceptional ones, for whatever reason. This month, its 'coup de coeur', complete with a 'Diamant', is the DVD, on Orange Mountain Music, of the Met's Phelim McDermott production of Glass's Satyagraha.

'To the glory of Philip Glass. Satyagraha, one of the prolific American composer's most successful operas, appears at last in a reference version.' French critics are obsessed with these 'reference versions', and the text rubs it in at the end: 'An indispensable reference, and for a long time to come' (my italics).

Apparently the writer is blessed with the gift of clairvoyance.

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