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A profoundly impressive Theodora from Les Arts Florissants in Amsterdam

By Olga de Kort, 10 November 2015
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Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 7 November 2015
Programme
Handel, Theodora
Performers
William Christie, Conductor
Katherine Watson, Theodora
Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Irene
Philippe Jaroussky, Didymus
Krešimir Špicer, Septimius
Callum Thorpe, Valens
Les Arts Florissants
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Olga de Kort
Olga de Kort
Musicologist and music critic Olga de Kort (The Netherlands) studied in Russia (piano, culture sciences), France (journalism) and the Netherlands (musicology and music history, music education and communication, organ) where she has lived from 1998. She is active as a music journalist, lecturer in music history and culture and as a freelance musician. She writes for Piano Bulletin, Pianist, Luister, Preludium, De Klank, Het Orgel, Muziek&Liturgie, Kunstzone and Bachtrack. Besides her personal journalist blog, Olga de Kort has a website about Russian music in the Netherlands. At this moment she is working on a book about Russian music and musicians in the Netherlands and on a biography of Russian singer Anna El Tour.