Hints and tips:
...The sizeable cast includes Chloë Sevigny, Alice Braga and Francesca Scorsese (daughter of Martin)....
...Kristine Opolais conveyed the heroine’s essential innocence with properly subdued rapture and, a few harsh climaxes notwithstanding, sang radiantly....
...Amid endless brouhaha, the German tenor was supposed to glamorise a new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, with Kristine Opolais illuminating the title role....
...The arrival of Nora’s estranged childhood friend Kristine (sensitively portrayed by Caroline Martin) throws Torvald and Nora’s small world into relief....
...Pippin – which will also probably win Andrea Martin the Featured Actress in a Musical award – received 10 Tony nominations, and will take the Best Revival of a Musical award or my surname isn’t citric....
...Dvorák Rusalka Kristine Opolais/Bavarian State Opera (Unitel Classica, 2 DVDs)...
...At the premiere of Martin Kusej’s Rusalka, all the dead animals were made of rubber, and all the blood was synthetic....
...Kristine Opolais pulls off Polina’s tantalising ambiguities and Alexander Teliga’s resonant bass flashes comic verve as the General....
...Also included: a spectacular study in daffiness by Kristine Nielsen and some rage-fuelled commentary about the absurdity of using torture to fight a war against torturers....
...Kristine McIntyre, given the unenviable task of enforcing Zeffirelli’s silly staging, kept the characters focused, the traffic patterns clean....
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