DiDonato shines with Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra

Por Susan Gould, 13 noviembre 2018

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“Nézet-Séguin led with obvious pleasure and enthusiasm, and the orchestra played brilliantly”

Crítica hecha desde Kimmel Center: Marian Anderson Hall, Philadelphia el 9 noviembre 2018

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Bates, Anthology of Fantastic Zoology

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Respighi, Fontane di Roma (Fuentes de Roma)

Joyce DiDonato, Mezzosoprano

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Dirección

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Susan Gould

Philadelphia native Susan Gould has been writing professionally about classical music since her Barnard College years in New York. She has written for both American and European publications, primarily during fifteen years in Europe, and has done liner notes for recordings and program notes for opera companies and orchestras. Among those she has interviewed have been Sills, Tebaldi, Popp and Fleming; Bumbry, Ludwig, Fassbaender, and von Stade; del Monaco, Kraus and Pavarotti; Prey, Morris and Ramey; Muti, Abbado, Giulini, Sawallisch, and Eschenbach. Fluent in Italian, German and French, she has coached both student and professional singers in foreign-language diction since 1980.