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From page to stage: Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring gets the operatic treatment

By Sarah Batschelet, 04 April 2022
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“Snouffer and Hampson gave polished, highly convincing performances”
Reviewed at Opernhaus, Zurich on 3 April 2022
Programme
Wirth, Girl with a Pearl Earring
Performers
Zurich Opera
Peter Rundel, Conductor
Ted Huffman, Director
Andrew Lieberman, Set Designer
Annemarie Woods, Costume Designer
Franck Evin, Lighting Designer
Lauren Snouffer, Griet
Thomas Hampson, Jan Vermeer
Laura Aikin, Catharina Vermeer
Dame Felicity Palmer, Maria Thins
Yannick Debus, Pieter
Irène Friedli, Tanneke
Iain Milne, Van Ruijven
Sarah Castle, Griet‘s Mother
Lisa Tatin, Child engine
Orchester der Oper Zürich
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Sarah Batschelet
Sarah Batschelet
Sarah Batschlelet, long based in Switzerland, took a degree in Art History from Smith College, Northampton, Massachuetts, and lives as a freelance writer and editor near Zurich.