Hints and tips:
...I think the new lines are being sung wistfully by Tory hardliners who, deprived of the possibility of an immediate Johnsonian comeback, are already plotting the next defenestration....
...Angharad Lyddon’s stylish Irene benefits from firm mezzo tone and Patrick Terry sang and played a restrained Andronico....
...Sung by Mattie Delaney, though, a different, more troubled story emerges....
...The first song Lead Belly recorded for them was “Goodnight, Irene”, the waltzing lament of a married man gone astray. He told the Lomaxes he’d heard the song sung by his uncles as a child....
...Lead Belly would never have sung the overtly sexual “get” in the 1930s....
...Iréne Theorin is an assured Elektra, who tellingly mixes full-voiced utterances with phrases sung in a hushed but intense tone. But she doesn’t dominate the stage vocally as an Elektra should....
...Far from being neglected, his large-scale works are in danger of over-exposure and it is easy to start getting choosy whenever performances are the slightest bit less than magnificently played or sung....
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