Let no one pretend the Getty score is great music. The long chunks of verbiage (the libretto is the composer's own) were less often sung than declaimed, punctuated by chunks of instrumental lines, mostly cliche-laden and signifying little.
Let no one pretend the Getty score is great music. The long chunks of verbiage (the libretto is the composer's own) were less often sung than declaimed, punctuated by chunks of instrumental lines, mostly cliche-laden and signifying little.