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Gerald Finley's exquisite melancholy suffuses Covent Garden's Adriana Lecouvreur

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“Finley's lieder singer’s attention to the nuance of the text made him intensely watchable”
Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 7 February 2017
Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur
The Royal Opera
Daniel Oren, Conductor
Sir David McVicar, Director
Charles Edwards, Set Designer
Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Costume Designer
Angela Gheorghiu, Adriana Lecouvreur
Brian Jagde, Maurizio
Gerald Finley, Michonnet
Ksenia Dudnikova, Princesse de Bouillon
Bálint Szabó, Prince de Bouillon
Vlada Borovko, Mlle Jouvenot
Angela Simkin, Mlle Dangeville
Krystian Adam, Abbé de Chazeuil
Thomas Atkins, Poisson
Simon Shibambu, Quinault
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