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A Gounod rarity comes to Boston for a concert performance under the ever-enterprising Gil Rose.

A musically excellent and unpretentious performance of Puccini's masterpiece from Cardiff.

“For some operas,” famed conductor Carlo Maria Giulini once said, “you can accept a voice of not absolute beauty – if it is well used and he is an artist and interpreter, it will work. But for Verdi you need all this plus the essential sound.