Conductor: Jesús López-Cobos Production: John Cox Featuring: Renée Fleming, Michale Schade, Thomas Hampson Massenet’s passionate music is sounded in the new performance directed by John Cox where radiant Renée Fleming plays the Egyptian courtesan yearning for spiritual nutrition, the lead role in the opera that premiered in 1894 composed on the libretto of Anatole France. “America’s Beautiful Voice” built her reputation with her sensitive musicality and genre diversity. “My parents sang while having a debate in the evenings at the dinner table. I received a tremendous musical education”, said Renée Fleming on her childhood. Thomas Hampson plays the disgraced monk Athanaël. The singer, performer, researcher, teacher, passionate golf player and book collector is an obsessed fan of all technological novelties (computers and other modern media) that support music as a means for communication among people. Thomas Hampson, proclaimed by world press the artistic-spiritual successor of the retired Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, moved from the United States to Europe to fascinate the audiences at opera and concert stages on the old continent with his repertoire, performance and musical personality.
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