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...When he and Isabeau, sung with much commitment and a little strain by Anne Sophie Duprels, come together for their apotheosis, the opera soars....
...Anne-Sophie Duprels offers a career-best performance as the water-sprite who, on achieving human form, cannot win back her innocence....
...After his entrance dressed as a lion on a scooter, anything David Wakeham’s Nabucco had to offer would have been an anticlimax, but his aria was one of the few pleasures of the evening, together with Brad...
...Anne- Sophie Duprels looked good in black leather and sang Thaïs’s music with native French clarity and no shirking the high notes....
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