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WNO’s Figaro Forever: a Fine Idea Realized Very Rewardingly in Large Part

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Rossini, The Barber of Seville; Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro; Langer, Figaro Gets a Divorce: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera/ James Southall (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 23, 24 & 27.2.2016. (GPu)

WNO Figaro Gets a Divorce. Mark Stone (Count) and Elizabeth Watts (Countess). Photo credit - Richard Hubert Smith 4742
WNO’s Figaro Gets a Divorce Mark Stone (Count) and Elizabeth Watts (Countess)
(c) Richard Hubert Smith

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Grace Williams’s Mass Finally Gets the Performance It Deserves

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Grace Williams: Fflur Wyn (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Rees (tenor), Jason Howard (bass), Rowan Williams (narrator), members of National Youth Choir of Wales, Ysgol Gerdd Ceredigion, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Huw Morgan (trumpet), BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tecwyn Evans (conductor), St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 1.3.2016 (PCG)

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“All is Always Now” with the Gould Trio and the Elias Quartet

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mendelssohn and Beethoven: The Gould Piano Trio [Lucy Gould (violin), Alice Neary (cello), Benjamin Frith (piano)] and The Elias String Quartet [Sara Bitlloch (first violin), Donald Grant (second violin), Martin Saving (viola), Maria Bitlloch (cello)], Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 11.2.2016. (LJ)

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