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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Happy Birthday, GFH!
Handel died 250 years ago today. In honor of the day, a clip from the opera that made me a fan: Rosemary Joshua sings Semele's "Endless pleasure, endless love" in the 1996 Aix-en-Provence production, which I saw a decade ago in London:
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