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Tag Archives: Massenet
To Paradise and back: a thrilling Le Roi de Lahore from Chelsea Opera Group
Massenet: Le Roi de Lahore **** Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1st March 2015 This is what Chelsea Opera Group was put on this earth for! Take an obscure grand opera that Covent Garden wouldn’t touch with a barge pole, prune it … Continue reading
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Tagged Anush Hovhannisyan, Chelsea Opera Group, Jihoon Kim, Joshua Bloom, Justina Gringyte, Le Roi de Lahore, Massenet, Michael Spyres, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Renato Balsadonna, William Dazeley
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A tale of two Carmens: Ruxandra Donose’s Rosenblatt Recital
Ruxandra Donose: Rosenblatt Recital *** Wigmore Hall, 6th October 2014 Stepping in for an indisposed Carmen Giannattasio, Romanian mezzo Ruxandra Donose opened (and closed) her Rosenblatt Recital with… Carmen. “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”, with its intoxicating habanera rhythm, is … Continue reading
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Tagged Bizet, Enescu, Fauré, Massenet, Offenbach, Roger Vignoles, Rosenblatt Recital, Rossini, Ruxandra Donose, Saint-Saëns, Verdi
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