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The old saying "The show must go on" usually self-fulfills without a problem. But sometimes something does go wrong, and it's all hands on deck. So it was at the Santa Fe Opera last Monday when Viktoria Vizin withdrew from the title role in Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict, pleading allergies -- and apprentice singer Eudora Brown found herself facing her professional debut.
Vizin's bad turn was her understudy's good luck. Saturday, Brown delivered a performance that would have been notable under normal circumstances; under these, it was dynamite.See the full content of this document
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Review: Apprentice Makes Confident Debut
She showed pluck, intelligence and above all, readiness -- and as Shakespeare astutely observed in a famous play, The readiness is all. Not that Brown, in this revival of SFO's 1998 production,...
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