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An electrifying Wagner after 18 years

Nov 13, 2012 9:09 PM

By PABLO A. TARIMAN

THE cream of Manila’s opera lovers showed up in an all-Wagner program Saturday night and gave its guest soprano, Claire Primrose, a standing ovation along with the Manila Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Russian conductor Alexander Vikulov.

Alexander Vikulov, Claire Primrose, Wilhelm Richard Wagner

Why Manila hardly ever hears a Wagnerian soprano

Oct 03, 2012 11:16 AM

By PABLO A. TARIMAN

WHEN sensational Australian soprano Claire Primrose debuts in Manila on November 10 with the Manila Symphony Orchestra at the Philamlife Theater, she will have ended an 18-year drought of Wagnerian sopranos in Manila.