Text: Others, though, bash Pfitzner's work as a pale imitation of Wagner, massively bloated [and] endlessly meandering, and say its American performance would have been [b]etter never, perhaps, than late (Martin Bernheimer, the Los Angeles Times ).
Entailment: Pfitzner's work is accused of being a weak imitation of Wagner's work.
Contradiction: There was never an American performance to critique.