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Starry performance can’t quite lift Caldara’s Planets to the skies in Amsterdam

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“The libretto is so obsequious it would make a North Korean propaganda agency blush”
Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 28 April 2018
Caldara, La concordia de’ pianeti
La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Andrea Marcon, Conductor
Delphine Galou, Contralto
Verónica Cangemi, Soprano
Christophe Dumaux, Countertenor
David Hansen, Countertenor
Carlos Mena, Countertenor
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Tenor
Luca Tittoto, Baritone
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