Opera News, September 1st, 2003
AMSTERDAM
For this year's collaboration of Netherlands Opera and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the Holland Festival, Bernard Haitink was to conduct Tristan und Isolde. When that production was canceled, conductor John Eliot Gardiner was called in. He chose Euryanthe, Weber's early-Romantic opera. Though saddled with an impossible libretto, the score seemed an excellent match for the orchestra's strengths. Netherlands Opera selected a director and cast that met with Gardiner's approval, but Gardiner withdrew from the project. Conductor Claus Peter Flohr took over, eliciting from the orc...
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