Cherry-flavored proppers to maestro Daniele Gatti, whose "Parsifal" marathon in Bayreuth got excellent reviews and an especially good one in today's Corriere della Sera: the august Milanese paper hails the "compassion and humanity" of Gatti's reading of the score that "seduced the Wagner faithful".
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(Above, images from Stefan Herheim's production that, by Bayreuth standards, isn't even that kooky).