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...David Agler, the festival’s artistic director, says that if Polish Radio had not issued a commercial recording in 2009, he might not have known about Maria – and been gripped by its music....
...The words came from Wexford’s artistic director, David Agler, during a discussion on Monday of his opera festival’s precarious prospects, but they could just as well have been uttered by any other recession-hit...
...The tone was set by the conductor, David Agler, who kept a steady pulse in the ensembles, gave his singers room to breathe and underscored the sophistication of the orchestral parts, an overlooked aspect...
...Artistic judgments remain the ultimate arbiter, and that is where David Agler, the festival’s Canadian director, had begun to score even before the new theatre was built....
...Wexford Festival’s artistic director, David Agler, is developing a new strand of programming with a focus on American opera, a genre widely disregarded in Europe, and himself conducted this revival of Conrad...
...On the musical side, the three singers deliver their reinvented 18th-century songs with little charm, while Stravinsky’s orchestral textures need a lot more bite than conductor David Agler provides....
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