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La Didon bouleversante de Joyce DiDonato au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

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“Joyce DiDonato répond avec une autorité vocale qui nous saisit par sa puissance douloureuse”
Reviewed at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on 8 February 2024
Carissimi, Histoire de Jephté
Purcell, Dido and Aeneas
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Maxim Emelyanychev, Conductor
Il Pomo d'Oro
Il Pomo d'Oro Choir
Andrew Staples, Jephté, Aeneas
Carlotta Colombo, Filia, 2nd Woman
Joyce DiDonato, Dido
Fatma Said, Belinda
Hugh Cutting, Spirit
Beth Taylor, Sorceress
Alena Dantcheva, 1st Enchantress
Anna Piroli, 2nd Enchantress
Massimo Altieri, Sailor
Christof Loy’s understated Werther at the TCE
****1
Carry on up the Nile: Handel's Berenice by the Seine
****1
Operetta with teeth: Offenbach’s La Périchole at the TCE
****1
Devieilhe's Cleopatra reigns in Michieletto's muddled Egyptology show
***11
A female voice florilegium: Vivaldi's Juditha triumphans in Paris
****1
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées: Catone in Utica
****1
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