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...His big final aria stirs the audience to spontaneous shouts of approbation, and his performance in the glorious love duet is one of this excruciating evening’s few moments of actual beauty. ★☆☆☆☆ To July...
...In Dido’s last aria from Les Troyens DiDonato and Gardiner combined to achieve an electric sensitivity....
...Stéphanie d’Oustrac is a near-ideal Béatrice, as vivid in the spoken dialogue as she is in her aria, and Paul Appleby a charmingly docile Bénédict....
...According to one of its first critics, the composer Hector Berlioz, not particularly....
...In four hours of music, there is just one memorable aria – Isabelle’s Act Four cavatina, touchingly sung by Patrizia Ciofi with a voice a size too small....
...Manchester-educated John Tomlinson sang arias by Verdi, Wagner and Gounod; Polina Leschenko, a nimble-fingered young Russian pianist, played Weber’s Konzertstück....
...Catalogue in hand, he turned Leporello’s aria from Don Giovanni into a complete character profile, witty, profound, affectionate, scornful....
...Ticciati did not hector the music in the modern fashion, and yet his reading had attitude....
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