Stressed out in the womb ...

... The precious Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

... McClatchy sweepingly presents Hofmannsthal as a great humanist in dark times. He even declares – without any supporting exposition – that Der Rosenkavalier (for which Hofmannsthal wrote the libretto) has, thanks to its “similarity to Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro and Wagner’s Meistersinger”, a “rare place among the most humane works of art ever conceived”.

Actually, this seems to me a perfectly unexceptional view.