Andreas Schmidt's Wolfram - restrained, moving, nobly sung, must surely be one of the finest since Herbert Janssen - a long time ago. Meanwhile the Palau de la Musica Catalana welcomed the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit.
"You fought nobly," Republican Pierre Rinfret said as Gov. Mario Cuomo breezed to a third term Tuesday. "We have not seen the end of each other." Applause sputtered quickly into silence.
True to 17th-century form, a lost infant reappears from Oldrents' past, and the naturally good turn out to be nobly born.