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Handel's Xerxes comes to Glimmerglass

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Reviewed at Alice Busch Opera Theater, Cooperstown on 18 August 2017
Handel, Serse (Xerxes)
Glimmerglass Opera
Nicole Paiement, Conductor
Tazewell Thompson, Director
John Conklin, Set Designer
Sara Jean Tosetti, Costume Designer
John Holiday, Serse
Allegra De Vita, Arsamene
Emily Pogorelc, Romilda
Abigail Dock, Amastre
Katrina Galka, Atalanta
Brent Michael Smith, Ariodate
Calvin Griffin, Elviro
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