Janos Gereben said:
>Reaction to Olivier Messiaen's "Saint Francois d'Assise" will be "or" -
>wonderful or terrible, the ecstasy or the agony.
>
>But the fact is that the San Francisco Opera's US stage premiere tonight
>of the 1983 opera is a definite "and," a complex presentation of good
>and bad. ...
In the Washington Post for 9/30/02, Tim Page also offers a review
and impressions of San Francisco Opera's "Saint Francois d'Assise":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20691-2002Sep29.html
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