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Plus a conceptual Salome and an unsatisfying Idomeneo
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Christian Thielemann’s conducting is superb as the directors reframe the opera’s nationalism
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...In contrast to the sexual hedonism common in 1970s rock, he remained with his wife Shirley Ann Shepherd, who he married in 1964....
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