Fiery Coloratura!

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Feb 15, 2022
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Watch Zoe Vandermeer's rendition of rapid triplets and more in Thomas Arne's famous aria 'The Soldier Tir'd of War's Alarms', from the opera Artaxerxes (1762), recorded New Year's Eve, in Connecticut with pianist Allan Conway.

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