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Redemption through recollection: Odyssey Opera’s Die ägyptische Helena

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“Kristen Chambers’ Helena was by turns coquettish, sultry, calculatingly submissive and ardent”
Reviewed at New England Conservatory: Jordan Hall, Boston on 19 April 2019
Strauss R., Die ägyptische Helena
Odyssey Opera
Gil Rose, Conductor
Kirsten Chambers, Helena
Clay Hilley, Menelas
Katrina Galka, Aithra
Ryne Cherry, Altair
Won Whi Choi, Da-Ud
Joyce Castle, The omniscient mussel
Sara Duchovnay, First servant
Erica Brookhyser, Second servant
Odyssey Opera Chorus
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