Hints and tips:
...For Angelica Gallegos, the worst part has been going without a shower for five months....
...Puccini Suor Angelica Kristine Opolais/Andris Nelsons (Orfeo)...
...In Suor Angelica, the encounter between Ermonela Jaho’s downtrodden nun and the hate figure of Anna Larsson’s imposing Principessa is taken to its emotional breaking point....
...Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica), second in Puccini’s scheme, was paired with Hindemith’s Sancta Susanna, another all-female opera about a nun experiencing an existential crisis....
...aristocratic Elysium where he spent the most productive years of his life – a coloratura soprano with a formidable personality (the sorceress Alcina), a dramatic soprano with a brilliant top (the lovelorn heroine Angelica...
...It is exclusively in Italian roles that she will be heard at Covent Garden in coming seasons – starting in September with Angelica (Puccini’s Trittico), followed by Mimì (La bohème), Desdemona (Otello),...
...Sally Silver’s frumpy Angelica cannot be called a natural Handelian but it is refreshing to hear a substantial voice negotiating baroque turns of phrase....
...Barbara Frittoli’s Angelica suggested that, for all her eloquent musicianship, hers is not a Puccini voice: “Senza Mamma” lacked bloom....
...It sent me racing to Kenneth Clark’s sparkling, still-fresh analysis of these key English painters in The Romantic Rebellion (1973)....
...Veronica Cangemi was the sparkling Angelica, Barbara di Castri a truthful Bradamante. Even Christian Senn’s Astolfo had his share of fireworks....
...He meets his match in Camilla Tilling’s classy Dorinda – this singer can do no wrong in my book – while Rosemary Joshua contributes a sweetly sung Angelica....
...Stonewall (Team Angelica) looks back to the 1969 Stonewall Inn riots in New York – a significant turning point in the campaign for gay rights....
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