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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Annina Santonia, soprano; Saimir Pirgu, tenor

January 7, 2020
15 Avenue Montaigne, 75008 Paris, France

Cheered on this stage last winter as the lovers in Verdi’s La Traviata, two rising stars return for a tuneful potpourri of highlights ranging from Mozart to verismo. Among the duets most likely to set the house on fire: the bedroom scene from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, and Rodolfo and Mimí’s first encounter from Puccini’s La Bohème, under the wintry Paris moon. —M.G.