GABRIELE

Listeners meet the very French Gabriële Buffet. An accomplished conductor and composer who was educated at the most elite French conservatory, she was way ahead of her time. But she also set her personal talent aside to be a muse for her husband, a Spanish artist. Barrie Kealoha portrays Gabriële as the brilliant artist and intellectual she was during the Belle poque, when free-thinking creativity was erupting with gusto in Europe. Kealoha breathes life into Gabriële's marriage, which was followed by an avant-garde affair that triggered major changes in the art world. Taking the listener to Europe and New York, Kealoha provides the image of a complicated free thinker who inspired her artist husband and her lover while satisfying her own intellectual curiosities. B.J.P. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2025]