Gounod
Americannoun
noun
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Opera got away with using Gounod to feature sensation-making young singers: no less than Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón in 2005, Vittorio Grigolo with Nino Machaidze six years later.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2024
She championed Charles Gounod and Jules Massenet, and inspired a novel by George Sand.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2022
The junior orchestra opened the program, and then the main group played, intently working its way through Schubert, Gounod, and Bizet.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 9, 2015
Congregation Kneseth Israel invites the community to a performance of works by Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, Delibes, Gounod and others.
From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2015
Thunderous applause explodes from the big top, and the band slides seamlessly into the Gounod waltz.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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