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...The most elaborate performance visually joined Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk and Jessye Norman – sterling singers with strikingly different voice types and techniques – in selections from Song Books (1970...
...But Barbara Gaines has learnt a thing or two in nearly 25 years at the helm of Chicago Shakespeare Theater and stages Verdi’s Macbeth with few, if any, of the hallmarks of a novice....
...Preceding the Schuller were two Mozart arias sung by Barbara Frittoli, “Bella mia fiamma…Resta, o cara,” K. 528, and Elettra’s Act 3 scene “Oh smania! oh furie! …D’Oreste, d’Aiace” from Idomeneo....
...And, like the Met’s, with Renée Fleming, it has the essential ingredient of a star soprano – Barbara Frittoli – as the alluring fourth-century Egyptian prostitute who abandons the oldest profession in favour...
...Otherwise, it was Schubert and Mozart, including the irresistible “Der Hirt auf dem Felsen”, in which Fröst was joined by Barbara Hendricks, whose lyric soprano is beginning to fade but still gives pleasure...
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