Robert Ward panned and prized

Podcast: Composers Datebook · American Public Media

Opublikowano: 2026-10-26

Synopsis For composers of new operas, all too often, after the heady champagne of opening night comes the strong black coffee of “the morning after” — sipped anxiously while reading the first reviews. Imagine yourself as American composer Robert Ward, whose opera The Crucible was premiered by the New York City Opera on today’s date in 1961. Here’s what he would have read in the New York Times the following morning: “Last night, the audience heard an opera that, in philosophy and workmanship, could have been composed at the turn of the centu...