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Coming up:

Feb. 7 at 1 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera
Artist's Choice - Massenet's Werther from 1979
Selected by tenor Lawrence Brownlee

CAST:
Werther - Alfredo Kraus
Charlotte - Régine Crespin
Sophie - Kathleen Battle
Albert - Lenus Carlson

CONDUCTOR:
Richard Bonynge

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