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Abravanel; Maurice

Hoffmann

Robert Levine

“Hoffmann” is twice as effective when all four heroines and villains are sung by the same soprano and baritone respectively, and so this set has

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Massenet’s Manon

Robert Levine

Bidú Sayao was a world-famous Manon, and this performance, her debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in February of l937, makes clear why. She temperamentally

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