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REBECCA PALLER'S TOP PICKS FOR THE 2001-02 SEASON
We're on the threshold of a new season, one that marks the end of the centennial commemoration of Verdi's death and the arrival in New York of an acclaimed production of Prokofiev's heroic War and Peace. If the final years of the twentieth century saw numerous opera adaptations of great works of American literature, the current season is likely to be remembered as the one that brought the vast cosmos of Leo Tolstoy's supreme novel to the Metropolitan Opera stage. Prokofiev's spot-on, telescopic vision of War and Peace is receiving its Met premiere, in a Kirov Opera co-production first seen last year at the ...