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Welcome visitor: Jane Glover, who led the New York City Opera premieres of Handel's Ariodante and Acis and Galatea, returns to NYCO this month for the company's first performances of Agrippina.

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Jane Glover's crisp, stylish readings of Bach, Mozart and Britten have taken her from the British Isles and Europe to China and Australia for twenty-five years. These days, her U.S. engagements are growing more frequent, with stops this month at NYCO for Agrippina and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for Chicago Opera Theater's production of Monteverdi's Orfeo. OPERA NEWS caught up with her last spring at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, where she was conducting Rameau's Hippolytus and Aricia.

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