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Filipina is lone outsider in Metropolitan Opera winners

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Filipina is lone outsider in Metropolitan Opera winners
Yesterday’s winners at the Met Opera’s Laffont Competition are:
Sadie Cheslak, 30, mezzo-soprano (Duluth, Minnesota)
Michelle Mariposa, 30, mezzo-soprano (Quezon City, Philippines)
Luke Sutliff, 28, baritone (Denver, Colorado)
Alissa Goretsky, 25, soprano (Los Angeles)
Emma Marhefka, 25, soprano (Allentown, Pennsylvania)

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Mendelssohn's Lobgesang: An Unsung Masterpiece

Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang: An Unsung Masterpiece

Memories are made of this: Tugan Sokhiev & Vienna Philharmonic in Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet, plus Debussy & Ravel with Lang Lang in Salzburg

Memories are made of this: Tugan Sokhiev & Vienna Philharmonic in Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet, plus Debussy & Ravel with Lang Lang in Salzburg

New York and London combined: Salonen conducts 20th-Century classics

New York and London combined: Salonen conducts 20th-Century classics

News Item: Benjamin Nicholas brings Choirs of Merton College Oxford on tour to Germany & North America

News Item: Benjamin Nicholas brings Choirs of Merton College Oxford on tour to Germany & North America

Heavenly joy & earthly travails: Philippe Sly is compelling as St Francis in Romeo Castellucci's mesmerising & frustrating vision Messiaen's opera in Salzburg

Heavenly joy & earthly travails: Philippe Sly is compelling as St Francis in Romeo Castellucci’s mesmerising & frustrating vision Messiaen’s opera in Salzburg

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