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...The dark bass of Jongmin Park, standing in for Ain Anger as the Grand Inquisitor, embodied awesome religious power....
...), with her brother Don Carlo, who swears vengeance against both Leonora and Alvaro....
...Dingle Yandell’s bass voice as Theseus is imposing....
...Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado has led multiple Wagners at El Real; the cast includes Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley and South Korean bass Jongmin Park....
...Best of all was a sojourn in Al-Andalus: Carlos Cano’s song about the last Arab ruler of Seville, al-Mu’tamid ibn Abbad, was followed by a setting of the poet-king’s own farewell to the Alcazar and to the...
...Bass Michele Pertusi’s underpowered Filippo was easily dominated by bass Alexander Tsymbalyuk’s black-voiced Grande Inquisitore. The chorus of courtiers, guards and monks made stirring contributions....
...Bragg has pushed his lovely-looking sea bass about a bit; as predicted, neither of us could be bothered with the broccoli....
...British bass baritone Christopher Purves sings Saul, the Old Testament king driven mad by his envy of the young David (Danish countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen)....
...The saxophonist can easily overwhelm, but here his rhythm section plays with the confidence and commitment of long-term acquaintances — Scott Colley played acoustic bass on Potter’s first Vanguard recording...
...Cimarrón: La Recia Cimarrón After the death of their harpist Carlos Cuco Rojas the Colombian band’s singer Ana Veydó has taken full grasp of the reins, bringing a feminist grit to their galloping joropo...
...Much of the strength of the cast lies in its native Italian singers, especially Gianluca Buratto’s dark bass Seneca, Carlo Vistoli’s concentrated Ottone and the magisterial Ottavia of Marianna Pizzolato....
...Add to that the 36-year-old US composer Carlos Simon, and Elena Urioste on violin....
...The evolution has not just been commercial: Horowitz notes cutting-edge and influential exhibitions at institutions such as the ICA Miami and The Bass Museum....
...Cimarrón, perhaps the best-known joropo band, was founded more than two decades ago by the harpist Carlos Cuco Rojas and the singer Ana Veydó....
...The classic quartet were intact, but a second bass player, Donald Garrett, stirs the waters underneath, and saxophonists Pharoah Sanders and Carlos Ward push sonics into the realms of white noise....
...“In all seriousness, I wish Carlos the best of luck.” Additional reporting by Arash Massoudi in London...
...The magnificent Bass, one of Miami Beach’s Art Deco gems; the Pérez Art Museum Miami, showing international 20th- and 21st-century work with a strong emphasis on serving the diverse communities of Miami-Dade...
...The Connaught, Carlos Place, London W1K 2AL Café Deco From the team behind cult favourite 40 Maltby Street comes new European-style eatery Café Deco....
...The set opens with the soulful “Be Present” unfolding over steady walking bass and then a call-to-arms motif comes in with a pedal-point riff....
...Carlos Ghosn is accused of a big fiddle in Japan. But a double bass did not feature in his escape. Pity....
...This is the festival’s third year at this venue and it is marked by further building works (a handsome colonnade round the opera house) and operas on a grand scale, opening with a revival of Verdi’s Don Carlo...
...Only Franco Fagioli, a snivelling dweeb of a Nerone, and Agrippina’s henchmen, Andrea Mastroni and Carlo Vistoli, had anything resembling DiDonato’s flair for comedy....
...Countertenor Carlo Vistoli and bass Gianluca Buratto added Italian flair....
...and bass voice undimmed....
...Carlo Lepore’s leathery bass made for a wicked Geronte, and Massimo Cavalletti’s Lescaut was deliciously seedy as he caressed his sister....
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