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Glammed-up Parsifal hits the Lyric stage in Chicago

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Reviewed at Lyric Opera House, Chicago on 17 November 2013
Wagner, Parsifal
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Paul Groves, Parsifal
Daveda Karanas, Kundry
Thomas Hampson, Amfortas
Kwangchul Youn, Gurnemanz
Runi Brattaberg, Titurel
Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor
John Caird, Director
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