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Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra and an inspired cast in Strauss’s “Daphne”

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“Hangler's singing of the final wordless passages was haunting”
Reviewed at Severance Music Center: Mandel Concert Hall, Cleveland on 27 May 2015
Strauss R., Daphne (Sung in German with English subtitles)
Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor
Regine Hangler, Daphne
Nancy Maultsby, Gaea
Andreas Schager, Apollo
Norbert Ernst, Leukippos
Ain Anger, Peneios
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