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No tears required: Mexico's youth triumphs in Rossini's Stabat Mater at Cervantino

By James Imam, 16 October 2016
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Reviewed at Templo de la Compañía, Guanajuato on 14 October 2016
Programme
Messiaen, Les Offrandes oubliées
Rossini, Stabat Mater
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Jesus Almanza Castillo, Conductor
Gabriela Herrera, Soprano
Amelia Sierra, Mezzo-soprano
Edgar Villalva Arreola, Tenor
José Luis Reynoso, Bass
Coro Juvenil del Conservatorio de Música de Celaya
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James Imam
James Imam
James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.