But Artist David Hockney 's sets add a strong British accent
The perfumed, black-tie crowd that poured into Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera house last Friday was in for a surprise. What were those subway-style graffiti doing all over the proscenium arch? What kind of message was it, spelling out the names of Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc and Maurice Ravel, composers of elegance and wit? And what was all the barbed wire doing out there on the naked stage, not to mention the forlorn, bullet-torn French flag?
There were plenty of hints, but no real answer, as...
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