Véronique Gens/Susan Manoff – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonVéronique Gens was last seen in London in the title role of Steffani's Niobe at Covent Garden in 2010, and it is in the 17th- and 18th-century operatic repertoire, up to and including Mozart, that the French soprano has forged her international reputation. But this effortlessly stylish and wonderfully polished Wigmore recital with pianist Susan Manoff was successfully designed to reveal a very different side of Gens's artistry: it offered a brief history of French song in th...

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