‘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