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Josep Pons and the BBCSO bring Spanish heat to an operatic double-bill

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“a febrile and bloody plot that feels like Catalan verismo”
Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 19 January 2018
Falla, El amor brujo
Granados, Goyescas, Op.11
Josep Pons, Conductor
María Toledo, Flamenco singer
Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Soprano
Gustavo Peña, Tenor
Lidia Vinyes Curtis, Mezzo-soprano
José Antonio López, Baritone
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