On 19 January 2024, Nadia Boulanger’s stillborn opera, La ville morte, first embarked on with her lover Raoul Pugno on 22 May 1910 was triumphantly brought to life by American conductor Neal Goren in the Greek National Opera House, Athens.
Welcome to Part II of nothing less than an operatic odyssey, the quest to confirm Nadia Boulanger as a composer, up there with her recognised position as music’s greatest teacher of the twentieth century. It’s only taken 114 years!
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