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    Music to my ears

    Mar 17, 2022 4 minutes

    Celine Byrne Soprano

    I’ve been listening a lot to the soundtrack of Les Misérables, which I’m going to see with my daughter in Dublin. I hate the phrase ‘rollercoaster of emotions’, but that is exactly what it is! I was into musicals long before I even knew what opera was and went to see Les Mis both in the West End and on Broadway, drawn at first by the fact that it had an Irish star – the amazing Colm Wilkinson, who played the original Jean Valjean and then the priest in the 2012 movie.

    The day after , I’m going to a concert that includes Mendelssohn’s , which my son has been studying at school., and I’ll be fascinated to see him conducting a symphony.

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