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Rossini's Ermione returns to its birthplace in Naples

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Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 7 November 2019
Rossini, Ermione
Teatro di San Carlo
Alessandro De Marchi, Conductor
Jacopo Spirei, Director
Nikolaus Webern, Set Designer
Giusi Giustino, Costume Designer
Angela Meade, Ermione
Teresa Iervolino, Andromaca
John Irvin, Pirro
Antonino Siragusa, Orestes, son of Agammemnon
Filippo Adami, Pilade
Guido Loconsolo, Fenicio
Gaia Petrone, Cleone
Chiara Tirotta, Cefisa
Cristiano Olivieri, Attalo
Coro del Teatro di San Carlo
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