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...The recording’s other main attraction is Lucy Crowe in the lambent arias of the title role....
...Presented with style by mezzo Susan Graham, a Santa Fe regular, it included interviews, an appreciation of the opera and the favourite aria “Largo al factotum”, sung by Joshua Hopkins, who would have been...
...In this new recording, tenor Joshua Ellicott sings that scene with a probing inwardness....
...Some operas, such as Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, seem like vehicles for a single aria....
...The standout singer is Joshua Hopkins as Machiavelli, with Karin Strobos supporting as Fortuna, although it has to be said that the better roles are for male voices....
...Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti performed a concert the night before the 1990 World Cup final in Rome and brought the aria Nessun dorma to the ears of millions....
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...And Graham Hubbard’s production for Aria Entertainment and Szpiezak Productions, packed with witty and engaging performances, gives it a poignant UK premiere....
...And with such polished Handelians as David Daniels, Hilary Summers, Brindley Sherratt and Rosemary Joshua in other leading roles, plus an enchanting young American soprano, Joélle Harvey, as Atalanta, this...
...Joshua Hopkins is likewise superb as the Count, contrasting a smooth, honeyed tone with a characterisation that is lecherous and abusive. And Lydia Teuscher’s Cherubino is pure joy....
...Rosemary Joshua did her considerable best for Nitocris, the Babylonian queen mum who gets inexplicably sidelined after a grand opening soliloquy....
...Rosemary Joshua and Rainer Trost completed the line-up of what will surely go down as a festival event to remember. () www.eif.co.uk...
...The Bach half featured extracts from three cantatas (there was no chorus performing, so this was an arias-only evening)....
...Rosemary Joshua sings Partenope with charm, delicacy and a finely drawn line....
...The Cleopatra was Rosemary Joshua, looking svelte and sounding expressive, and Cornelia was Christianne Stotijn, who alone was left to underplay her role....
...He meets his match in Camilla Tilling’s classy Dorinda – this singer can do no wrong in my book – while Rosemary Joshua contributes a sweetly sung Angelica....
...Her singing of operatic arias by Massenet, Gounod and others becomes compulsive listening. Her French operetta solos fizz like vintage champagne. 7....
...The compendium of derivative touches also features dancers accompanying arias with undulating mild rap, and a costume mix that goes from a Sherwood Forest tunic for Caesar to a hip modern suit for Tolomeo...
...Olga Pasichnyk sounds both pure and robust as Dorinda, Rosemary Joshua warms into the role of Angelica as the evening progresses and a bearded Beth Clayton brings smouldering androgynous athleticism to the...
...Toby Spence and Joshua Hopkins are first rate as Tamino and Papageno; William Lacy conducts with stylish assurance....
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