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...Nicole Chevalier makes the title role her own, with singing of extraordinary power, agility and stamina; she is formidable....
...Nicole Chevalier plays a furious Despina, caught in a mutually abusive union with Georg Nigl’s twisted, superbly expressive Alfonso. The soloists sing marvellously as an ensemble, but the arias drag....
...Up on Shirley Heights, the air is really crisp. It’s where I can celebrate myself....
...Marie-Nicole Lemieux does her best as the frantic Cassandre; Ekaterina Semenchuk, jumping in at short notice to take over the mammoth part of Didon, copes impressively....
...Her performance in the 2020 biopic Shirley, about the writer Shirley Jackson, was critically acclaimed, and this month she takes on the role of Jane Fairchild, the fearless protagonist of Mothering Sunday...
...Nicole Chevalier’s Elettra is a worthy rival, her final fury aria a tour de force....
...The cast is first-rate, from Maria Bengtsson’s luminous account of the title role to Nicole Haslett’s effervescently air-headed Kristina....
...In the 1960s and ’70s there was a generation of great black singers, such as Leontyne Price, Martina Arroyo, Grace Bumbry, Shirley Verrett and others, who were at the top of opera’s first division....
...I grew up listening to artists like Chet Baker, Billie Holiday and Shirley Horn, so that left a big impression on me. Sadly, I can’t sing to save my life....
...Tansel Akzeybek makes a winning Paris, and Nicole Chevalier is an entirely plausible Helena. But in their narcissistic world of hysteria, it is impossible to care how anybody feels....
...Nicole Heaston is an exception in the title role, in a performance that ranges from towering rage to aching grief, always moving, utterly in command of each note’s shading....
...This production is no exception, with outstanding performances from all four young lovers – Tansel Akzeybek, Annelie Sophie Müller, Günter Papendell and Adela Zahira, as well as from Nicole Chevalier’s shimmering...
...We already have operas about Jerry Springer, Anna Nicole and Angela Merkel – why not one about Natascha Kampusch? Now Bluthaus has come to the Theater Bonn, Schwetzingen’s co-production partner....
...Only a couple of months after former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith was portrayed flaunting her assets at the Royal Opera House, another real-life figure of our times is about to find herself the subject...
...(He has sung for an album version of West Side Story, and recorded a duet with Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls.)...
...contemporary opera production dealing with dictators, then we are in a big silver blow-up Zen garden populated by autistic lost souls in absurd costumes (video: Falschfilm; sets: Hartmut Meyer; costumes: Nicole...
...Shirley MacLaine, as Ferrell’s mother-in-law, plays to the gallery. Michael Caine as Kidman’s dad plays to the floorboards....
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