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...But this does not take into account the real barriers they face — an argument made by Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey in their 2021 paper “Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome”....
...Bumbling hotel trainee Aaron (Ali Watt) falls in love with a mysterious, aria-warbling apparition that enlivens the corridors of his relentlessly beige workplace. He assumes he’s being haunted....
...Carrie-Ann Williams, making her ENO debut, rose impressively to Micaëla’s aria and Nmon Ford brought flair to his suave, smiling Escamillo....
...Expect an evening of the most-loved arias performed by a stellar ensemble....
...Carrie-Ann Williams and Gavan Ring trade light opera banter nicely as Marzelline and Jaquino....
...With ballets, duets and numerous show-stopping arias per soloist, Ariodante is one of Handel’s more ambitious operas....
...Toby Faber includes a letter from Ann Faber, Geoffrey’s daughter, to Ted Hughes, but notes Ann “never made a name as an editor in her own right”....
...Unlike Messiah, with its rousing choruses, Theodora is a contemplative oratorio, drawing strength from a succession of wonderful, inward-looking arias....
...Mezzo Ann Hallenberg excels in her calm, warm-toned singing of the slower arias, and there are stylish accompaniments from Il Pomo d’Oro under Stefano Montanari....
...Judith is unquestionably the star of the show, even if the swashbuckling aria at the climax goes to another mezzo as Vagaus, Holofernes’s sidekick. Ann Hallenberg gave it her all to energising effect....
...His score lurches between chattering polyphony, sounds of sawing wood, and post-romantic arias, spiced up with eerie violin shrieks....
...Other engaging set-pieces include a parody of Handel’s aria “Lascia ch’io pianga” and a poignant expression of self-doubt by Carmen....
...Ann Murray’s fastidious Marcellina is well in the picture alongside Carlo Lepore’s Bartolo and Krystian Adam’s Basilio....
...Handel Giove in Argo Alan Curtis, Ann Hallenberg (Virgin Classics, 3 CDs) Hidden Handel Ann Hallenberg, Alan Curtis (Naïve)...
...What one thinks of the director Francisco Negrin’s treatment of the familiar tale pitting Christian Crusaders against Muslim defenders will fluctuate from aria to aria....
...Ann Taylor’s Cornelia sounds miscast, while James Laing’s waspish Ptolemy reveals the Achilles heel of so many countertenors: want of vocal charisma....
...Ann Murray introduced an eloquently supercilious Marquise de Berkenfield, seconded by James Courtney’s elegantly befuddled Hortensius....
...In Barack Obama, the author includes often moving portraits of both Obama’s parents, Barack Obama Sr and Ann Dunham, and of their parents, and theirs before them – a prolonged overture to the brief marriage...
...It is this man who is soon regaled by our wildly talented heroine Ann Carter (Durbin), who has heard Gerard is on the train....
...Rachel Nicholls was scarcely less effective as the Angel of Healing – lots of rapier coloratura – and Ann Hallenberg’s deep, graceful mezzo added dignity to the part of Anna....
...The smaller roles included a brilliant cameo from Ann Murray as a waspish Marcellina, with Robert Lloyd’s Bartolo and Robin Leggate’s Basilio well in the picture....
...Ann Hallenberg’s Servilia – warm, velvety, dignified – was the other outstanding voice, while Carlo Lepore’s Tito made a solid anchor. ★★★★☆ Tel: +44 020 7638 8891...
...A romantic melodrama best known for its aria “Il dolce suono”, Lucia has featured in other art forms; Flaubert used it as a backdrop in the passage of Madame Bovary when the heroine encounters her former...
...The award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham takes the title role, Ruth Ann Swenson, whose recent performances include Marguerite in Faust at the Metropolitan Opera, will play Ginevra....
...He could bring the crowd to a hush with a lyrical aria…In other moments, he would begin what seemed a solemn train of thought, then pause, and turn it to the absurd with a quick ‘snapper’.”...
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