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Faccio’s Amleto: A Serious and Absorbing Opera Brought Back to Life

06/06/201603/06/2016 by Bernard Jacobson

United States Faccio, Amleto: Soloists, Opera Delaware, Anthony Barrese (conductor), Grand Opera House, Wilmington, Delaware. 20.5.2016. (BJ)

amleto4 — Faccio’s Amleto (c) Joe del Tufo/Moonloop Photography

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