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...Here, with mezzo Susan Zarrabi singing the single role carefully, the Boulez Ensemble occasionally ventured into microtonal territory — or were they just playing out of tune?...
...He’d just talk about politics with Susan Sontag,” he says. Baryshnikov moved on to reading “Walcott from St Lucia, and Seamus Heaney in Ireland, or Louise Glück, in the States, or Mark Strand”....
...Having started the season with Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride at the Royal Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, she has followed up with French works in concert and this enterprising recital of mélodies, which...
...Until last week, Gluck’s noble music-drama had been ventured only five times, the last in 1917....
...One problem faces all Gluck interpreters: how do you extract the meat from the marble?...
...The mezzo Susan Graham’s molten tone and vivid acting brought to life the Greek priestess, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who has been banished to Tauris....
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