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DESCRIPTION:May 10\, 2026\nThe Chinese bass baritone Le Bu has collected so
 me neat glittering prizes lately\, including a Grand Finale win at the Met
 ropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition and a first prize at Operalia. Wha
 t’s more\, his deep-burgundy timbre and high seriousness is even generat
 ing hopeful buzz among collectors of antique vinyl whose tolerance for tod
 ay’s instant wonders hovers close to zero. His song list for Vocal Arts 
 DC—in four languages—bespeaks his ambition not just as a performer but
  as an artist. A mythologically oriented Schubert group culminates in the 
 Dantean “Gruppe aus dem Tartarus.” A French group builds to Duparc’s
  tremendous “La Vague et la cloche\,” which strikes the ear like Delac
 roix in sound. Excerpts from the Vaughan William cycle The House of Life (
 set to sonnets of Dante Gabriel Rossetti) touch gentler\, more spiritual y
 earnings. Selections from Mussorgsky’s harrowing Songs and Dances of Dea
 th\, close the official program. (Is something Chinese up his sleeve for a
 n encore?) Le Bu’s partner at the keyboard is the Tashkent native and Ma
 nnes School of Music graduate Artyom Pak.
LOCATION:Live! at 10th & G\, 945 G St NW\, Washington\, DC 20001\, United S
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SUMMARY:Le Bu\, bass-baritone\; Artyom Pak\, piano
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