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...It is fitting that she is cast alongside a tenor who equally looks the part as Alfredo....
...And, like the Alfredo of her Albanian compatriot Saimur Pirgu, who sings just as smoothly and musically, there is a whiff of melodrama about the acting....
...Tenor Saimir Pirgu is her lover Alfredo Germont, and Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is his father Giorgio. Bob Crowley’s sets are rich in period detail and Yves Abel conducts....
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