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Halévy's La Reine de Chypre claims three tenor victims in Paris

By Mark Pullinger, 08 June 2017
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Reviewed at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on 7 June 2017
Programme
Halévy, La Reine de Chypre (Concert performance)
Performers
Hervé Niquet, Conductor
Véronique Gens, Catarina Cornaro
Sébastien Droy, Gérard de Coucy
Étienne Dupuis, Jacques de Lusignan
Christophoros Stamboglis, Andrea Cornaro
Artavazd Sargsyan, Strozzi
Éric Huchet, Mocénigo
Tomislav Lavoie, Herald of Arms
Orchestre de chambre de Paris
Flemish Radio Choir
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.