Catcalls Stop The Opera At Paris Médée

“Audiences fed up with a radical director’s take on an opera usually save their rage till the final curtain calls. Monday night at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, in the first of four performances of Cherubini’s Médée, the audience couldn’t wait and interrupted the performance. There are limits, it would seem, on just how far a director can go, and for many those limits were breached.”