Out sick

In sick, actually, and on one of the busiest weekends of the season. Sigh.

Roy Proctor, in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, liked Virginia Opera's abridged version of Wagner's "Die Walküre" ("The Valkyrie"):

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/flair/2011/feb/27/tdmet02-downsized-valkyrie-features-powerful-perfo-ar-870261/

Joe Banno, in The Washington Post, pretty emphatically did not:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022003104.html