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Clear singing, obscure production: Domingo and Monastyrska in Nabucco

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“the highlight was a beautifully held fade-to-black pianissimo”
Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 6 June 2016
Verdi, Nabucco
The Royal Opera
Maurizio Benini, Conductor
Daniele Abbado, Director
Alison Chitty, Set Designer
Plácido Domingo, Nabucco
Liudmyla Monastyrska, Abigaille
Jamie Barton, Fenena
Jean-François Borras, Ismaele
John Relyea, Zaccaria
Vlada Borovko, Anna
Samuel Sakker, Abdallo
David Shipley, High Priest
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