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L'Enfant et les sortilèges opens Chicago Symphony's “French Reveries and Passions” festival

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Reviewed at Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago on 7 May 2015
Ravel, Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose): Suite
Debussy, La Damoiselle élue
Ravel, L'Enfant et les sortilèges
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
Chloé Briot, Soprano
Kate Royal, Soprano
Marie-Ève Munger, Soprano
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo-soprano
Elodie Méchain, Mezzo-soprano
Manuel Nuñez Camelino, Tenor
Stéphane Degout, Baritone
Eric Owens, Bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe, Choirmaster / chorus director
Young Singers of Greater Chicago Anima
Klaus Mäkelä is speaking... Chicago is listening
****1
Matthew Aucoin’s Song of the Reappeared premieres in Chicago
*****
Manfred Honeck brings his über-dramatic Mozart Requiem to Chicago
****1
Daniela Candillari makes her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut
****1
Polished Ravel x 2 from Alice Sara Ott with the Chicago Symphony
****1
Ravinia Festival opens with bombastic Gershwin, emotional Tchaikovsky
***11
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