Word: aria
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...climbed up on a platform overlooking Kurt Baum, In the middle of some aria, Mr. Barrone yelled at us, "Raise your spears, boys!" We raised our spears. Then he yelled, "Wave your spears, boys!" We waved our spears...
...Minor yesterday afternoon and evening in Symphony Hall would not have satisfied a purist. The retards on cadences were exaggerated, the orchestral part at the end of "Et Resurrexit" was omitted and so was the first Osanna. The soles were taken more slowly than regulation, particularly the bass aria, "Et in Spiritum Sanctum," for it is quite frankly a pastoral dance, inspired by the word "Vivificantem" (Giver of life...
...with the overture, and stayed in it to the last gaily triumphant note. It was, however, the dramatically restrained passion of Kathleen Ferrier's singing, in a voice that is even and full through its two-octave range, that carried the show. Few had ever heard the familiar aria I Have Lost My Euridice so sumptuously sung...
With her old self-confidence, she mastered four new Italian roles, broadened her acting ("You do things here New York would consider a little corny"), opened as Leonora in Il Trovatore. At the end of her big first act aria, the audience went wild. Next day, Astrid found herself the talk of the town...
...English translation that went over so well in "Idomoneo" seemed to bog down in "Giovanni." Recitatives like "What dreadful thing has happened" smacked unfortunately of Gilbert and Sullivan, and the Catalogue Aria collapsed. Giovanni's drinking song was taken at half speed, evidently to fit either the language or the voice...