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...mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges....
...This fascinating double-album release captures Alice Coltrane overcoming an extended period of mourning for her late husband, saxophonist John, and marks her determination to follow a spiritual path....
...An opportunity has opened up and Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian has stepped into the breach....
...It skips from brassy bombast to melodramatic arias to resonant choruses, working in cheeky homages to Philip Glass, John Williams and more as it goes....
...Mehldau’s probing lines offer an intriguing highlight on “Málaga Moon” and entwine with Potter’s soprano sax on “Aria for Anna”, a tender, warm-hearted ballad....
...It is to the credit of conductor John Nelson and the English Concert that they plough their own furrow with a profitable outcome....
...Chief conductor Donald Runnicles begged off sick on Saturday’s opening night, leaving John Fiore battling to keep things together, with little room left for subtlety. The cast, at least, is excellent....
...“Daughter” brings to mind Ennio Morricone with pattering guitar, dramatic orchestrations and a passage of soprano singing from Italian aria “Caro mio ben”....
...Italian soprano Anna Pirozzi sings the role of the titular princess, while Italian tenor Piero Pretti is her suitor, Prince Calaf....
...In Barrie Kosky’s must-see production, US soprano Lise Lindstrom sings Salome and British tenor John Daszak is Herod, while Swedish mezzo-soprano Katarina Dalayman plays Herodias....
...The Norwegian soprano was impressively loud in her Italian arias, soggily conducted, and “Rule, Britannia!”....
...Mezzo-soprano Jean Holmes, my first singing teacher, taught me how to work hard and listen for quality. My teacher when I was about 18 was Veronica Dunne, the legendary Irish soprano....
...May 2; further information and tickets here ‘El Niño’, ‘The Hours’ and ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’, The Metropolitan Opera John Adams’ opera-oratorio El Niño — a bold reimagining of the Nativity — will be conducted...
...Soprano Elena Xanthoudakis plays Lucia; tenor Rosario La Spina is her lover Edgardo....
...power, and showed his own virtuosity in four Rachmaninov interludes. ★★★★★ Also accompanied by a superb pianist (Zaccai Curtis), alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin presented a short but powerful homage to John...
...John Coltrane’s transition from Miles Davis sideman to expressionist iconoclast is well documented....
...The success of John Nelson’s recording of Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troyens set Erato, part of Warner Classics, off on a far-reaching Berlioz journey....
...In one of three casts, Angela Gheorghiu sings Mimi — the role that made the Romanian soprano a star in her 1992 ROH debut....
...John Findon delivers a fearsome rallying cry for persecution in the role of Bob Boles, but Christine Rice’s quality mezzo is on the high side for the riper lines of Auntie, the local publican....
...In the Mozart, soprano Lucy Crowe soared with heavenly beauty through the ravishing “Et incarnatus est”. ★★★★☆ In the evening a packed Royal Albert Hall gathered for a concert by John Wilson and the Sinfonia...
...Neither an opera nor an oratorio, L’Allegro is an adaptation of two poems by John Milton, with a short third part added by Handel’s librettist, Charles Jennens....
...The title track channels spiritual John Coltrane, but bears Lovano’s unmistakable stamp....
...Her soprano lilts and curves through the inflections of a vividly evoked Dorset landscape....
...Three major American works — Jake Heggie’s new opera Intelligence, Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater and John Adams’ El Niño — stand out in a packed schedule....
...As compensation, Hrachuhí Bassénz fields a creamily soft-grained soprano as Countess Almaviva, treating her arias to a heartfelt soft palette of colours, and Siobhan Stagg is an appealing Susanna, though...
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