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    Vocal pyrotechnics give this Agrippina the edge

    Mar 19, 2020 1 minute

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    Agrippina

    Joyce DiDonato, Franco Fagioli, Elsa Benoit, Luca Pisaroni, Jakub Józef Orlinski, Andrea Mastroni, Carlo Vistoli, Biagio Pizzuti, Marie-Nicole Lemieux; Il P’omo d’Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev

    Erato 9029533658 229:41 mins (3 discs)

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