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Tag Archives: Simon Lim
Sultry, fiery, coquettish: Stéphanie d’Oustrac’s Carmen has it all
Bizet: Carmen **** Glyndebourne, 23rd May 2015 “The very incarnation of vice” was how one critic described Célestine Galli-Marié’s Carmen at the opera’s 1875 Opéra Comique première. That description could equally be applied to Stéphanie d’Oustrac in Glyndebourne’s revival of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bizet, Carmen, Christophe Gay, David McVicar, David Soar, Eliana Pretorian, Glyndebourne, Jakub Hrůša, Loïc Felix, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucy Crowe, Pavel Cernoch, Simon Lim, Stéphanie d’Oustrac
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