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John Singer Sargent’s Madame X

2 November 2019

9:00 AM

2 November 2019

9:00 AM

Baron François Gérard would be astonished that his vast 1825 painting of The Coronation of Charles X is the inspiration and template for a production in the Sydney Opera House nearly two centuries later. The production had already been the surprise hit of the 2019 Melbourne Season for Opera Australia.

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