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...The role of Semele is nothing short of a gift and Joélle Harvey brings to it period style and a bright voice, skipping about showpiece arias such as “Myself I shall adore” with admirable precision....
...big sister Fatima, while Raphael Wittmer’s ingenuous Ali and Thomas Berau’s fatherly Sandro pinned it all together....
...Through an excellent cast, including tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Tamino, soprano Erin Morley as Pamina, baritone Thomas Oliemans as the bird-catcher Papageno (his Met debut) and soprano Kathryn Lewek as the...
...The soloists sing marvellously as an ensemble, but the arias drag. Disappointingly, the rain stopped and the opening night ground on to its remorseless conclusion....
...February 28 to August 26; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Le Portrait de Dorian Gray’ and ‘Les Trois Soeurs’, Théâtre le Ranelagh Thomas Le Douarec brings Oscar Wilde’s fantastical novel...
...Aria was originally a project of Dominic Cummings, the prime minister’s former chief adviser....
...There is a forthright Donna Elvira from Irish mezzo Paula Murrihy, at her best in the tricky second aria, “Mi tradi”....
...He’s clearly intrigued, though, as later the guitarist strums through his favourite song in the world — an Italian aria, obviously. Part of Last Days’ abstraction derives from its source....
...None of the cast escapes what Thomas calls the “near hysterical state of living trauma”. Mezzo Niamh O’Sullivan comes closest with her deeply felt singing of Asteria’s calmer arias (Vivaldi’s own)....
...The narrator is a primary school teacher called Estella, played by Gertrude Thoma....
...The best-known piece on the bill is John Adams’s Chamber Symphony, another jazz-flavoured score (the second movement is called “Aria with Walking Bass”)....
...A pop-up concert of the Miami Beach Classical Music Festival might add a beautiful aria to the mix, in the bright midday sunshine....
...The letter also emphasised the government’s plans to invest in skills and infrastructure while setting up Aria, an £800m scientific research agency modelled on a US government body....
...If something other than Easter music is sought for the holiday weekend, try Thomas Adès’s 50th birthday concert with the London Symphony Orchestra....
...The “Aria Italiana” hurtles along at a breakneck speed. The “Wiener Walzer” spins on its heels with insouciant abandon. The performers have brilliance to burn....
...On the empty stage of the Muziektheater in Amsterdam, soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and baritone Thomas Oliemans stalked each other around the stage, at first lovingly in an excerpt from Lehár’s Die lustige...
...One was made in the studio, the other in the historic St Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach lived and worked for a quarter of a century....
...King Crimson’s album Starless and Bible Black takes its title from a line in which work by Dylan Thomas (above)?...
...Joanna Marie Skillett improved after a shaky start to give Fiordiligi youthful dignity, matched by Thomas Elwin as a strong-voiced, sometimes stiff Ferrando....
...Join Claer Barrett, personal finance editor, and Daniel Thomas, chief UK business correspondent, for a live video discussion at 12pm UK time on Tuesday August 11....
...The story is played out as a Georgian romp backstage at the opera, set among demanding prima donnas and flouncy fops, though director Adele Thomas skilfully allows space for serious emotions....
...Their joint mini-album follows tours of the UK and Mexico together (Cegvera’s guitarist Gerardo Arias used to be in Vinnum Sabbathi)....
...For the semi-staging of Dido and Aeneas, director Thomas Guthrie chose to represent the characters with half-life-size puppets....
...It is not the bass line of an unknown Wagner monologue or Puccini aria....
...She sounds radiant, despite a cloudy start in her opening aria (as happens with so many singers of the role) and projects strongly in this big theatre....
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