When the Swiss French tenor Benjamin Bernheim sang the Hymn to Apollo at the Paris Olympics closing show he had been given a weekend leave of absence by the Salzburg Festival.
By rights he should have been singing in Tales of Hoffmann on Satursday night.
His Salzburg jump-in was Léo Vermot Desroches.
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Handel’s Flavio at Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival in 2023Rémy Brès-Feuillet (in bath), Yuriy Mynenko – (Photo: Clemens Manser) The Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, based at the 18th century Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, will be […]
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Lorca Federico Garcia Lorca was born 127 years ago today, on June 5th, 1898, and he died, violently, on August 19th, 1936, killed by a Fascist firing squad in the early days of the Spanish […]
