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Missing too many bullseyes: Bernstein's Candide semi-staged by the LSO

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“the grand finale, Make Our Garden Grow, sounded like the climax of a Mahler symphony”
Reviewed at Barbican Hall, London on 8 December 2018
Bernstein, Candide (Concert performance)
Marin Alsop, Conductor
Leonardo Capalbo, Candide
Jane Archibald, Cunegonde
Anne Sofie von Otter, Old Lady
Sir Thomas Allen, Doctor Pangloss
Thomas Atkins, Governor
Marcus Farnsworth, Maximilian
London Symphony Chorus
Simon Halsey, Choirmaster / chorus director
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Anna Netrebko shines in Vienna’s timeless Tosca
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Frauenliebe und -sterben: Kratzer’s triple bill at Staatsoper Hamburg
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Diamonds and steel: Anna Pirozzi rules in La Scala’s Turandot revival
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