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A Salome lacking drama at the Verbier Festival

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“in her climactic scena it could have been the Marschallin who sang”
Reviewed at Salle des Combins, Verbier on 21 July 2017
Strauss R., Salome (Concert performance)
Charles Dutoit, Conductor
Gun-Brit Barkmin, Salome
Jane Henschel, Herodias
Gerhard Siegel, Herodes
Egils Siliņš, Jochanaan
Andrew Staples, Narraboth
Idunnu Münch, Herodias' Page
Rouwen Huther, 1st Jew
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