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    Rachel Portman

    Feb 17, 2022 1 minute

    achel Portman has established herself as one of the leading British voices in film music. The first woman composer to win an Oscar (for 1996’s ), she has also written a children’s opera and a musical and is increasingly in demand in, written for mezzo Joyce DiDonato and has just been released on Erato.

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