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...“We’re working hard to bring young people to the opera,” says Ignacio García-Berenguer, the Teatro Real’s director. “I think that we’re also reducing bit by bit opera’s image of elitism....
...René Pape’s Timur is gruff, Aida Garifullina’s Liù fragile. Andrés Moreno García, Siyabonga Maqungo and David Oštrek as Ping, Pang and Pong give top-drawer performances....
...Additional reporting by Aída Meza in Lima...
...Aida (Verdi) Bring some mega-sized grand opera into the living room with the Met’s Aida, a traditional show of passion, priests and pyramids....
...Aída García Naranjo, a prominent feminist activist and educator, and the new minister for women, is flying the flag for the left in the cabinet, backed up by vice-ministers such as the trade unionist Pablo...
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