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The House Taken Over in Luxembourg: Echoes of Cortázar in Vasco Mendonca's new opera

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Reviewed at Grand Théâtre, Luxembourg on 6 February 2014
Mendonça, The House Taken Over
Etienne Siebens, Conductor
Katie Mitchell, Director
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Oliver Dunn, Baritone
Kitty Whately, Mezzo-soprano
James Longford, Piano
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