Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony's summer home in the Berkshires, last week was bright with the trappings of success. Its concerts played to full audiences of summer tourists. In cape and white cap, Maestro Serge Koussevitzky, the patriarch of the place, strolled the leafy lawns of Lenox, bowed in & out of the most crowded classrooms in his Berkshire Music Center's history. But the big news at Tanglewood was not these successful appearances. It was the reappearance of a forgotten flop.
This week Opera Director Boris Goldovsky gave the U.S. the first performance in over...
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