Article: Crying Wolf once again

Early in the century, opera audiences in Brussels were polled for their favourite works and voted Ernest Chausson's Le roi Arthus fourth, preferring it to La Boheme and Die Zauberflote. Chausson's three-act drama was broadcast in a rough and ready performance from Dortmund last Thursday afternoon. It's half as long as Tristan, the model with which its reputation is burdened, even though Chausson announced his intention to "de-Wagnerise" his music well before completion. Chausson's distinctive character - or perfume - can be identified as a variety of the Wagner species: you recognise the pattern of Wagner behind a turn of phrase, but something new changes it and results in quite a different ...

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