Sure Reads Right

This sure reads right:

James Levine: It's exciting beyond belief when you work with a director you didn't work with before, and it goes like that [i.e., the director understanding how to express opera in great theatrical terms]. It rarely does. But you keep looking for it because there really is nothing else like it. The best collaborations between directors and conductors go through a phase, which is really extraordinary, where something about what I'm drawing out becomes expressed in theatrical terms, and what the director is drawing out becomes expressed in musical terms — and it merges. I find in all the years I've done opera, directors come from everywhere — they come from choreography, from film, from theater, from music. But if they have the feel for it, you can have a brand-new thrilling collaboration.

Peter Gelb: It's now the Met's policy to establish and nurture these kinds of collaborations. In the case of any new opera production, the director, the conductor, and the theater administration work together to make sure that artistic decisions are made jointly.

Let's just pray nothing gets lost in translation.

RTWT here.