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Annandale-on-Hudson

Tudor passions reign in Bard SummerScape’s grand production of Saint-Saëns’s Henri VIII

04/08/202304/08/2023 by Rick Perdian

United States Saint-Saëns, Henri VIII: Soloists, Dancers, Bard Festival Chorale, American Symphony Orchestra / Leon Botstein (conductor). Fischer Center at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 30.7.2023. (RP)

Alfred Walker (Henri VIII) and Amanda Woodbury (Catherine d’Aragon) © Stephanie Berger

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