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...The high point was her searing account of Violetta’s death-obsessed aria, “Addio del passato”, both verses....
...Diana Damrau has chosen a selection of arias that show the composer so feted by 19th-century Parisian audiences to be far more wide-ranging than is commonly thought....
...And then there was Diana Damrau’s conception of Elvira, whose madness (unlike that of Donizetti’s Lucia, which is the real thing) is triggered solely by doubts about her lover Arturo’s fidelity and ultimately...
...More unashamedly populist than his Austrian contemporary, Salieri penned a taut construct of short, brilliant arias, clever recitatives and witty ensembles, one of more than 40 music theatre hits....
...At Princess Diana’s funeral, there must have been an ocean of tears. It reminds me of Shelley: “Unfathomable Sea!...
...As Enrico, Dalibor Jenis was a rigid presence, struggling to stay together with the orchestra in his aria “Se tradirmi tu potrai.”...
...The duende for me came only once during this gala; it made its presence felt when Olga Borodina sang Delilah’s aria “Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix” from Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila....
...But the idea of a singer impersonating them in an opera seems absurd because our idea of opera revolves around fancy frocks, fat ladies and 19th-century arias....
...The raison d’être for this dubious revival must have been Diana Damrau, a singing actress of keen intelligence and magnetic passion....
...The dancing proves most apt for Zerbinetta’s aria, delivered amid lustful men, who bear her aloft even as she sings....
...Like a record company’s “best of” release, with crowd-pleasing arias from assorted operas, ABT does the same thing, focusing on the tried and tested works to be presented during the company’s eight-week...
...Theodora Baka held her own brilliantly as Diana, and Zachary Stains imparted swagger to Jupiter. The bass Vito Priante excelled as Iside’s lover Erasto....
...Geraldine McGreevy is a forceful Iphigenie, driven past the borders of sanity, yet magnificently eloquent in her arias....
...Most tenors omit this preposterously ornate aria. Flórez breezed through it. He alone broke ground. Tel +1 212 3626000...
...Dorinda is a military secretary who moonlights as a prostitute, Angelica a leggy blonde with a new outfit for every aria, Paris Hilton crossed with Princess Diana. Both women fall for Medoro....
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