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From: Opera Canada
Date: 20020922
Author:

Wayne Gooding

Tobias Picker

Soviero, Fulgoni, Gietz, Bernstein, Woods, Andrasy, Kazaras. Dallas Opera Orchestra, Graeme Jenkins, conductor.

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This new opera, commissioned by Dallas in conjunction with L'Opera de Montrel and San Diego Opera, premiered in English in Dallas late last year. Based on the novel by Emile Zola and with a deft libretto by Gene Scheer, the opera tells the story of an unhappy woman (Therese) whose passionate affair with a painter and family friend (Laurent) leads to her complicity in the murder of her husband (Camille). After the deed, ...

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