The decades-overdue debut of Sir Simon Rattle at the Met Friday night demonstrated brilliantly just what we've been missing: His conducting of "Pelléas et Mélisande" is the musical pinnacle of the season. The English maestro, 55, needed only a few restrained gestures to invoke the silky soundscape of Debussy...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:06PM on December 19, 2010