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Music writers put an ear to the ground

20 years ago
Gary Hoffman

By FT music critics [Financial Times, 27 December 2005]
The mighty Metropolitan
By Martin Bernheimer
A new year beckons, a year rife, no doubt, with joy and rapture, disappointment and disenchantment. It is always like that in the wonderful, irrational world of opera.

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