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...ringing now, and the maid is saying, "Shah residence," and there's something in her voice, a here-we-go-again aria, as she tells 58-year-old Bipin Shah he'd better take this...
...Kuralt were also multiple winners in the 40th annual awards show, held in Radio City Music Hall. Besides Barbra Streisand, two other planned performances were canceled due to illness -- George Strait was replaced by Vince Gill and Luciano Pavarotti's surprise fill-in was Aretha Franklin, who sang an aria. (For a complete list of winners, click here...
...soloists are without exception strong, lovely vocalists, neither too delicate nor too overwhelming for the choral and orchestral accompaniment. Bauwens is particularly notable for his elegant, tasteful use of flourishes. His "Ev'ry valley shall be exalted" aria was very beautiful, lilting, and full of little trills and decorations. The tenor part, though too often sadly neglected in the "Christmas section" of Part I, has some of the loveliest music in Messiah, and Bauwens proves himself wholly equal to it. His Part II recitatives, "All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn" and "Thy rebuke hath broken His heart...
...incredibly pure, sweet timbre and bell-like resonance. Rickards' runs were exquisite and flawless, his style characterized by very creative use of flourishes, including several impressive octave-wide jumps from ending note to grace-note. A high moment in his performance came in the "He was despised" aria. Startlingly unadorned, this aria provided a striking contrast to the equally lovely lines that followed, "He gave his back to despisers." The soprano recitatives of Pifa, the second, post-natal half of Part I give Labelle a real chance to shine. She displays a very clear, resonant voice, only occasionally marred...
Part of the humor of the operetta has to do with the absurdity of so many of its situations, for instance, when "Orlovsky" claims, "Vee Russians have a motto: chacun a son gout" and sings an aria about it, or when Eisenstein sneaks off to the party by telling his wife (who thinks he's going to jail) that "the tuxedo is the requisite emblem of innocence." But a lot of it is in the English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin, which one has to admit can be at times clunky ("transgressors taste my fury" or "your face...