• 11/25/2024

‘Vanessa’: Samuel Barber’s Riveting Romantic Opera

Wall Street Journal

Long underappreciated, the composer’s 1958 work evokes Giacomo Puccini and Richard Strauss in its lyricism and emotion, and is finally starting to attract the attention it deserves.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/vanessa-samuel-barbers-riveting-romantic-opera-23ec0dda