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...Gerald Finley (Oppenheimer in Doctor Atomic) as Antony offers a fine blend of fading nobility and lovesick weakness....
...Next to him, Gerald Finley is making his role debut as Leporello....
...Adams himself conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra....
...Dewey & LeBoeuf went bankrupt in 2012 after offering many rainmakers extravagant guarantees; Finley Kumble expanded rapidly in the 1980s, only to collapse....
...Reprising a role indelibly associated with him, Gerald Finley was magnetic as the chain-smoking Oppenheimer, while the outstanding soprano Julia Bullock put her agile voice through its paces as his wife...
...Last year at the event Karen Finley painted works inspired by “sext messages” and Joe Zane exhibited a taxidermy chihuahua dressed as a princess....
...“We tallied it and saw that I was doing more,” Finley says. So they redistributed tasks more equally. When Finley got up in the middle of the night to breastfeed, Yap would change more diapers....
...Gerald Finley’s warm bass-baritone gave Chou En-Lai gravitas, and Alan Oke’s Mao was a believable amalgam of ogre and deity. www.earbox.com...
...With his brother Adam as co-writer, he recently completed an original screenplay, his first since Garden State. Its title, Wish I Was Here, suggests Braff at his best....
...John Adams Doctor Atomic Metropolitan Opera (Sony, 2 DVDs) John Adams’s opera about Robert Oppenheimer, the man who conceived the nuclear bomb, is really an oratorio with dramatic moments: The libretto...
...Just one example: Karen Finley smeared herself with chocolate and performed various acts with a yam on which I will not elaborate....
...high-profile parts in operas by Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Debussy and Britten, as well as roles written for him by Mark-Anthony Turnage (football- hero-turned-war-victim Harry Heegan in The Silver Tassie) and John Adams...
...They range from roles Finley has created – Oppenheimer in John Adams’ Doctor Atomic and Harry in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Silver Tassie – to Wolfram’s Act 3 aria from Tannhäuser and the Toreador’s Song...
...The same cannot be said for Amanda Roocroft’s Ellen and Gerald Finley’s Balstrode, in spite of their committed singing and faithful realisation of Alden’s concept....
...The excellent Gerald Finley, who has played Oppenheimer in every city where the opera has been seen, sings with a magnetic beauty that his unsympathetic character hardly deserves....
...The main cast excels, led by the noble Canadian baritone Gerald Finley, who created the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer....
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