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Rachele Gilmore Makes Remarkable Met Debut

Written by Neil Kurtzman | 23rd December 2009

In the grand tradition of a star is born and the show must go on young American soprano Rachele Gilmore made an unscheduled debut at New York’s Metropolitan Opera tonight as Olympia in Offenbach’s Les Contes Hoffman. She was given only three hour’s notice that Kathleen Kim was ill and that she was up. She…

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