Getting With the Program

摘要

Despite Its Reputation For Beingas cutting edge as a fine pearl, Lincoln Center was sort of badass this season. The Metropolitan Opera scored a global coup with its debut production of Dmitri Shostakovich's wild 1930 work The Nose-directed with multimedia panache courtesy of South African artist William Kentridge. Next door, New York City Opera staged a modern version of Mozart's Don Giovanni that was as philosophical as it was sexy. And the New York Philharmonic pulled off perhaps the biggest success of all.