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Seattle Opera’s Orfeo ed Euridice: Small and near perfect

4 years ago
Roger Downey

During the entire epidemic, Seattle Opera continued to create, primarily through videos showing it in survival mode: a monochrome, monaural reduction of Don Giovanni; Jonathan Dove’s “airport opera” Flight lip-synced…

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