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YOUNDE DREAMS

SOUTH AFRICAN SOPRANO Pretty Yende follows her successful debut album, A Journey, with the impressive Dreams, featuring bel canto “mad scenes” and other coloratura selections chosen from characters who find escape in dream lives, seeking love or hope for the future. Yende’s brilliant technical singing skills continue to mature; more important, here she reaches new… Continue reading YOUNDE DREAMS

THE CRAZY GIRL HAS GONE WILD

THE MADWOMAN has become an awkward operatic archetype; there’s something distasteful in the way we parade mental illness onstage, resurrecting outdated notions of female hysteria as we gawk at the coloratura ravings of Lucia or Ophelia. But on two new releases, Barbara Hannigan reclaims the madwoman as an emblem of the modern era. The Nova… Continue reading THE CRAZY GIRL HAS GONE WILD

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