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Title: Be very afraid
Review: Scary, scary, scary. Richard Lewis is twenty years past his prime, Barstow sings in Urdu (sloppily), Betley seems to have thought she had been contracted for Adriana Lecouvreur, and Goeke--where in the WORLD did they find HIM? And then to use him in Zauberflöte and Giovanni as well--WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? Primitive production values and a surprisingly rough and ready orchestra in the pit (what's their excuse?--this isn't Lulu, after all) round out this festival of awfulness. When will Amazon finally introduce the zero-star rating this kind of disaster deserves? For a decent Idomeneo, try the Met (Pavarotti, von Stade, Cotrubas, Behrens). AVOID THIS ONE AT ALL COSTS.
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