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Much appreciated relief came with the entrance of Sarita Cannon '98 as Belinda, Dido's confidante. Cannon's voice is consistently strong, clear and confidently delivered. As Dido, Lara Bruckmann is decidedly less imposing. Though her voice is clearly very highly trained, and possesses a wonderful, delicate vibrato and a good range, Bruckmann's performance, particularly in the first act of the two-part operetta, is hesitant and overly breathy...
...particularly striking moment arrives with the duet of Belinda and the Second Woman, "Fear no danger to ensue/The hero loves as well as you...." The close harmonies are lovely, and the two women's strong, ringing voices are well-matched. Despite slight difficulties with intonation at a few points, both Cannon and Oh demonstrate remarkable facility in the duet's challenging runs. The chorus' reiteration of the verse, on the other hand--the opera's first big choral part--lacks clarity and strength. The choral "Cupid only throws the dart/That's dreadful to the warrior's heart..." is much better...
...interesting harmonies and surprising contrasts. Unfortunately, the beauty of his work is too often obliterated by the shoddy instrumental delivery or weak chorus, if not utterly disguised by the distractingly awful acting. Dido, even in her more musically successful moments, maintains a dreadful expression of peevish nervousness. Even as Belinda liltingly intones of the beautiful queen, "Her eyes confess the flame her tongue denies," all that this reviewer could observe in Bruckmann's eye was a sour distaste for the whole situation...
...Belinda Lee is a 2L at HLS and the vice-president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau...
...real radio airplay; and it's difficult to forget those photos of Michelle Kwan, 16, slipping in last month's U.S. figure-skating championships. For Rimes, so far, there have been few stumbles. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and raised in Garland, Texas, by her mother Belinda, a homemaker, and her father Wilbur, a seismic-supply salesman who peddled drilling rigs, metal pipes and the like before quitting to co-manage his only child and produce her albums ("I'm not technical," he says of his learn-as-you-go approach...