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 new big bone at the Gewandhaus orchestra is Polina Tarasenko, 23. She’s from Kherson in Ukraine. Polina was a student of Ian Bousfield at the University of Arts Bern before joining the Mendelssohn Academy […]
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