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What’s Your Favorite Soprano Role Opera?

What’s Your Favorite Soprano Role in Opera?

In celebration of Soprano Month on “Operatoonity,” I created a poll to find out your favorite soprano roles. To see. To sing. Makes no difference in this poll. Here’s a short... Read more

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Concert Review: The Rose Lines of...Vienna?

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Daniele Gatti conducts the Orchestre National de France Sunday afternoon at Avery Fisher Hall featured a concert by the Orchestre National de France, which... Read more

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