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Opera for a summer garden: Gluck and Arne rarities from Bampton Classical Opera

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Reviewed at The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxford on 22 July 2016
Gluck, Philémon and Baucis (One Act Opera (part of le feste d'Apollo))
Arne, The Judgement of Paris
Paul Wingfield, Conductor
Jeremy Gray, Director, Set Designer
Catherine Backhouse, Philemon, Pallas
Barbara Cole Walton, Baucis, Juno
Christopher Turner, Jupiter, Paris
Aoife O'Sullivan, Shepherdess, Venus
Robert Anthony Gardiner, Mercury
Robert Gildon, Bass
Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera
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