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Good, bad, but never ugly, a curious evening unfolds at the Barbican, inspired at times, ill-judged in places.

Michel Plasson returns to l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in a program of French music and Karina Gauvin resplendent in Britten's Les Illuminations. It was an object lesson in how to capture the essential essence of French music. 

Die Dirigentin und Sopranistin gestaltete ihre Rolle eindrücklich, mit tragfähiger, dramatischer Stimme, auch höchste Töne mühelos meisternd.