"J'aime l´eccentricité"

I still haven't figured out whether Petibon is scarier than de Niese.

Gergiev slammed

Gergiev's Covent Garden Ring is a primary school travesty, so I walked out

"I knew the Mariinsky’s Ring Cycle had shocking reviews when it was staged in Cardiff, but I had no idea it would be this bad. Or that anything could be this bad, really...."

Read the full article by Daniel Thompson here

more slamming by Intermezzo here
by the Times here and here
and a more sympathetic review for the Guardian