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...Seventeen kilometres long, and between one and four wide, it stretches a brilliant green gash in the plain of barren sand, guarded by the jagged mountains that surround it....
...“A-L-E-X!” cries Antoine. It’s awful — with each tumble, I feel less able and less willing to get up again. I’m beginning to feel like Rupert Brooke. Antoine has to help....
...We were living almost “off the grid” — no phone reception or TV — even as we were surrounded by L’Occitane toiletries and very fine wine....
...A top-drawer cast includes Rod Gilfry’s degenerate, frantic Don Giovanni, Paul Groves in fine voice as Don Ottavio, Kristine Opolais as a suitably overwrought Donna Elvira, and Maria Bengtsson giving her...
...beautiful but vocally weak cast, and his focused Werther (premiered in Erfurt in 2008), chiefly memorable for Polish soprano Malgorzata Panko’s intense Charlotte – here is a stage animal in the mould of Kristine...
...Kyle Ketelsen is Leporello and Kristine Opolais is Donna Elvira. Louis Langrée conducts the Freiburger Barockorchester....
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