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...“Copy her weighty elbows…” Many others from The Book of Beauty find a place in the show, including Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith, an early patron....
...Not surprisingly, Fleming’s career horizons are widening....
...In fact, it was by marrying her second cousin that plain old Countess Marie Aglaë Bonaventura Theresia Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau became part of the princely family....
...Through all this Fleming’s Countess floated with aristocratic dispassion....
...Fleming is born to the role of Countess, issuing glorious streams of refined lyricism with remarkably clear diction, managing both a youthful glow of inner delight and a hint of world-weary cynicism....
...The atmosphere will be relaxed, it’s ideal for young people, for families with children like mine (aged two, four and six, the products of his marriage, from 1999, to Clarissa, Countess of Törring-Jettenbach...
...The soprano Ren‚e Fleming wonders, with barely concealed bafflement, how a young man could begin to understand the woes of a frustrated middle-aged woman such as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro....
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