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Article: TAMBERG: Cyrano de Bergerac
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- Opera News
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- October 1, 2004
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TAMBERG: Cyrano de Bergerac
Huhta, Airenne; Körts, Tiilikainen, Zahharov, Elp; Orchestra and Chorus of the Estonian National Opera, Mägi. Text and translation. CPO 999 832-2 (2)
Cyrano, it seems, is in the air. This season, as the Met produces Franco Alfano's seldom-heard opera Cyrano de Bergerac as a vehicle for Plácido Domingo, Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn is at work on a new musical version of Rostand's beloved comédie héroique, and Michigan Opera Theatre's David Di Chiera has composed a new Cyrano opera, currently being orchestrated. Now CPO, the label that released a recording of the Alfano Cyrano last year, has issued a Cyrano by Estonian composer Eino Tamberg.
Tamberg, born ...