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Gergiev and the Mariinsky excel in Wagner's Parsifal at the Birmingham Symphony Hall

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Reviewed at Symphony Hall, Birmingham on 6 April 2012
Wagner, Parsifal
Soloists from the Mariinsky Theatre
Mariinsky Theatre Chorus
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, Conductor
Avgust Amonov, Parsifal
Larisa Gogolevskaya, Kundry
Evgeny Nikitin, Amfortas
Nikolai Putilin, Klingsor
Yuri Vorobiev, Gurnemanz
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