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...Gerald Finley (Oppenheimer in Doctor Atomic) as Antony offers a fine blend of fading nobility and lovesick weakness....
...Letter in response to this article: Surveillance would cool academic partnerships / From Peter Harris, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University, US...
...Handel wrote for the star countertenor of his day, Senesino, Schubert for his lieder-singing friend Johann Michael Vogl, Poulenc for Pierre Bernac, Britten for Peter Pears....
...That was a shame, as it was a fine line-up, led by Lucy Crowe as the Vixen and Gerald Finley as the Forester, both beautiful voices and well experienced in their roles....
...Alongside its in-house comms man Peter Reynolds, who cut his teeth at big betting outfits (Bwin and PartyGaming), two of the City’s biggest spin meisters were drafted in, too....
...Gerald Finley gives a towering performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “Doctor Atomic” of the title, and the strong cast includes Julia Bullock, Brindley Sherratt and Samuel Sakker....
...Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande Simon Rattle (LSO Live) Away from Peter Sellars’s rather doubtful semi-staging this live recording takes on a stronger focus....
...But there was a drawback: Peter Sellars’ libretto. In place of narrative, Sellars gives us snail-paced soliloquising....
...Peter Sellars is the Berliner Philharmoniker’s artist-in-residence this season, which means that the formula that proved so successful in his stagings of the Bach passions with the orchestra — singers in...
...In this pessimistic view of the opera Gerald Finley’s Golaud, powerfully sung, with every word clear, took on a new dominance....
...Although he somehow seemed more stern than evil, Gerald Finley exerted magnetism as the mephistophelian nemesis on the premises....
...It is easy for anybody who is half familiar with his music to assume that all are to English texts and were written for his partner, Peter Pears, but that is far from the case....
...“Everyone in town had passed on it,” Braff says, even after he’d secured his “dream actors”: Sir Ian Holm, Peter Sarsgaard and Natalie Portman....
...Britten Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Gerald Finley (Hyperion) Britten’s oeuvre is so dominated by the music he composed for Peter Pears, his long-time partner and creative muse, that it’s easy...
...Earlier this year Lieberson completed a new song cycle for baritone titled Songs of Love and Sorrow, which was premiered at the Boston Symphony Hall last March by Gerald Finley....
...Like his 2005 cycle Neruda Songs, Peter Lieberson’s new Songs of Love and Sorrow has its origin in a Boston Symphony commission intended for his wife, the mezzo Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, with James Levine...
...The new cycle was written for the bass-baritone Gerald Finley, who performs them here, accompanied by the BSO under James Levine....
...English National Opera’s new production of Peter Grimes, unveiled on Saturday, falls into this category....
...But Peter Grimes, an opera about xenophobia, is also an antidote to xenophobia....
...The excellent Gerald Finley, who has played Oppenheimer in every city where the opera has been seen, sings with a magnetic beauty that his unsympathetic character hardly deserves....
...The main cast excels, led by the noble Canadian baritone Gerald Finley, who created the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer....
...The London Philharmonic, the Wigmore Hall and composer Peter Maxwell Davies all launched their own CD labels....
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