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...He made his Met debut in 2019 as a fine Siegfried, and this night he sang with superb intonation and a shapeliness to his phrasing....
...Watts also sang Finzi’s spiritual Dies Natalis. There was another premiere in Ryan Latimer’s brief, high-energy Pound of Cure....
...Hungarian-born pianist András Schiff as the soloist in each, leaving Fischer’s customary quirks mostly for the encores (each of these concerts featured one in which the players put down their instruments and sang...
...There is an outstanding Tom Rakewell in New Zealand tenor Thomas Atkins, a graduate of the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, where he sang the final scene of this opera in the end-of-year...
...The downside is that you can only treat one area at once, unless you buy multiples. £205, achedaway.com Aletha Health The Mark The hips don’t lie, so sang Shakira....
...Ludovic Tézier, French baritone now at his peak, has amplitude and power to spare, and sang a glamorously voiced Count di Luna, albeit rather solid and standing stock still for much of the time....
...“He sang to us of dreams and captured stories of emigration, heartbreak, love and joy.”...
...Selaocoe talked of a journey through the many rhythms of Africa, but the real spark was lit in the music’s spontaneity as he and Keita improvised, sang singly and together, and drew the audience into rhythmic...
...In the brilliantly written Age of Hope, Richard Toye calls this the birth of modern Britain....
...And it came out of the so-called medicine shows, where the young Little Richard backed literal snake oil salesmen, and louche Southern clubs where drag acts sang lyrics blunt enough to still make your teeth...
...As in Bayreuth last summer, her mighty voice has taken on some shrillness at maximum volume, but at anything less than blazingly loud she sang with beauty and dignity....
...Bass Günther Groissböck sang King Heinrich with power, fine articulation and a natural, near-chummy expression....
...He was a regular visitor to the Three Choirs Festival when he was young and sang in a performance of Mahler’s gargantuan Symphony No 8 at the age of nine....
...Senior officials in Helsinki argue that they need to keep their sang-froid. It remains unclear just how much Erdoğan is playing to a domestic audience ahead of his tricky re-election bid in May....
...It is bad luck that Noel Bouley fell ill just before the first night, necessitating a last-minute stand-in from Roland Wood, who sang Scarpia while Bouley acted the role....
...he sang at Cafe Oto in east London — a reminder of art’s role in collective survival, to get people through....
...Although Bayreuth had experienced a brief golden age in the 18th century, it was a backwater when Richard Wagner started his opera festival there in 1876....
...Conductor Richard Farnes focused on accuracy and detail in the orchestra and paced the opera with a sure sense of direction....
...Angharad Lyddon’s stylish Irene benefits from firm mezzo tone and Patrick Terry sang and played a restrained Andronico....
...Kathryn Rudge sang Sāvitri with warmth and beauty, and Anthony Gregory and Ross Ramgobin gave her strong support as the husband and Death....
...“My aunt thought the singer before me was going to win because she sang for so long,” says Davidsen, looking back at the experience with some amusement....
...They get to have some fun, too, sometimes smoochy, sometimes jazzy, and lifting the spirit in their final song, Jimmy López Bellido’s rousing, anthem-like “Where Once We Sang”. ★★★★☆ ‘How Do I Find You...
...This is potentially third time lucky for its director, Richard Jones. His first Ring for Scottish Opera, started in 1989, was abandoned partway through....
...Rothschild & Co has hired Sang Shin as a managing director on its media and telecom advisory team, based in New York. She joins from Evercore....
...A group of five of Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words really sang with generosity of feeling....
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