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...One, a blind teenager called Marie-Laure (newcomer Aria Mia Loberti), is the town’s loudest voice of resistance (and most discreet code-sender) as the host of a nightly radio broadcast which serves as a...
...Marie collects the trash carefully into a bag which she then uses as a pillow....
...April 11 to 14; further information here Performance ‘Swan Lakes’, Fleck Dance Theatre Four international choreographers — Hofesh Shechter, Marie Chouinard, Marco Goecke and Cayetano Soto — each present...
...These vocal contrasts were key, as the music is mostly recitative, the “dialogues” of the opera’s title, with no arias and only a few solo passages....
...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....
...Joanna Marie Skillett improved after a shaky start to give Fiordiligi youthful dignity, matched by Thomas Elwin as a strong-voiced, sometimes stiff Ferrando....
...The rich-voiced contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux gives an expressive but often hyperbolic performance as his clairvoyant wife, Storgé....
...The title is an allusion to the aria in Mozart’s The Magic Flute, which Lilliet tells us is the most difficult aria ever sung — it can break a voice....
...These came thick and fast in Incipit, a world premiere by the Spanish composer Helga Arias Parra that might just as well have been called The Boiler Room....
...Most ambitious of all was Strozzi’s wide-ranging aria “Hor ch’Apollo”, in which soprano María Cristina Kiehr and Concerto Soave were elegantly stylish....
...The noodle showdown is just one of several ridiculous stunts pulled by pretentious artist Serge Haulupa; others include a compressed-air-driven bagpipe aria and a performance piece entitled The Fridge Is...
...Anne-Marie Owens captures enough of the Countess’s glamorous past to make us believe in her fading grandeur....
...Daveda Karanas brings resonant vocal authority to Mother Marie, and sweet-voiced Ashley Emerson couldn’t be better as the irrepressible Sister Constance....
...Seven years ago Juan Diego Flórez became the first person since 1933 to sing an encore at La Scala, when, by popular demand, he reprised the opera’s most celebrated, and feared, tenor aria, “Ah!...
...“Mondo ladro”, the most poignant aria in Verdi’s operatic swan song, is duly upstaged: the horse steals the show. He does it again when Sir John rides to Windsor Park for his night-time assignation....
...The hero, homeworking his imaginary defence on spare evenings, alternates arias of surreal legalese with curt statements of faith and mission: “I’m not a racist. I hate everyone equally.”...
...Rosanne van Sandwijk was both Dido and the sorceress, Marie de Roy Belinda and one of the witches....
...There is just one showcase aria in Castor et Pollux, “Tristes apprêts” (which achieved some degree of fame alongside tracks by Gang of Four and Siouxsie and the Banshees in Sofia Coppola’s 2006 biopic Marie...
...Marie-Nicole Lemieux gave character to the scheming Polinesso at the expense of some exaggeration and Nicholas Phan was a bright, confident tenor as Lurcanio....
...into a gutsy rendering of Orlando’s big coloratura aria, and everybody suddenly jolted awake....
...The two favourite Cherubino arias are well sung by Jurgita Adamonyte, although she is not the strongest personality....
...He had to create enough stand-alone arias, however inane or sentimental, for the string of operatic “stars” that would give the show credibility at the Met box-office....
...Confined to the ward for lunatics, she sang aria after aria, night and day. “And Carmen could not stand it,” said Le Porz....
...The tomboy of Marie (Daughter of the Regiment) lurks unsettlingly beneath the surface....
...On Thursday the most engaging were Adriana Kucerová’s elfin Nannetta and Marie-Nicole Lemieux’s khaki-clad Quickly....
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