The Merchant of Gothenburg: the return of La Juive

Por Sofia Nyblom, 10 abril 2014

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Crítica hecha desde GöteborgsOperan, Gotenburgo el 5 abril 2014

Halévy, La Juive

Gothenburg Opera

Pierre Vallet, Dirección

Günter Krämer, Dirección de escena

Regina Šilinskaitė, Princess Eudoxie

Mireille Delunsch, Rachel

Lars Cleveman, Éléazar

Darío Schmunck, Prince Léopold

Mats Persson, Ruggiero

Michael Schmidberger, Cardinal Brogni

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Sofia Nyblom

Sofia Nyblom is a Swedish arts journalist, critic, presenter and radio and tv-producer. With a background as a professionally trained singer, she today prefers watching opera and singing in choir - and she loves dance. Twitter: @nyblomsofia. Her website is here.