Michael Tanner

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Second Movement: Triple Bill; Angela Gheorghiu; Pelléas et Mélisande

issue 19 May 2007

Second Movement: Triple Bill; Angela Gheorghiu; Pelléas et Mélisande

Second Movement is a young opera company which gives singers who have graduated from their college but are not yet on the opera house circuit a chance to demonstrate their gifts, and in unusual repertoire. Since standards at Second Movement are evidently very high, it also gives enterprising opera goers, supposing they manage to spot one of the company’s rare and unobtrusive adverts, an opportunity to see things they might easily spend a lifetime without encountering.

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