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...For more ‘All the Best’ round-ups from Andrew Clark: Delius La traviata Handel’s Messiah Mahler symphonies Lutoslawski Sergiu Celibidache Wagner’s Ring Carlos Kleiber Goldberg Variations Ravel’...
...The nearest comparison is Lucia Popp, who was Slovak. Damrau’s artistry is a combination of vocal noblesse, emotional warmth and instinctive intelligence....
...Popp’s Rosalinde despatches her czardas with élan, the chubby young Gruberova (Adele) proves herself a witty comedienne and Fassbender is the imperiously handsome and charismatic Orlofsky....
...As the Abbott in the poem said: “When nobody twigg’d it, some rascal or other had popp’d in and prigg’d it.”...
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