The soprano Denise Dupleix, whose death is reported today, burst onto the scene at Tours in 1950 with the Bell Song from Lakmé. For the next four decades she was a high-note star in both Paris opera houses. As you can hear below, she was astonishing in her prime.
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The thoughtful American musician Matthew Aucoin has been pondering a century-old question. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, a term that’s routinely applied to radically different […]
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