Word: chorus
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Many of the actors seem fundamentally removed from their characters and present a muddled interpretation of Aristophanes' play--neither conveying nor critiquing its true spirit. The chorus' efforts to aestheticize the obscenity through dance, ominous vioces and hand-held masks, and thereby to introduce a deeper level to the sexual conflict, are awkwardly staged and difficult...
...melody, slow chorus from Verdi'sNabucco, part of which translates roughlyas "Oh, my country, so lovely and so lost! Oh,remembrance, so beautiful and so despairing...
...didn't understand then why old men wereweeping as the chorus sang, for I didn't know thewords. I understood later...
...deserves a medal) the clarity of every serious, fragile syllable. Helium can be oblique and witty, but here the directness is what shocks, from the boyfriend-girlfriend indictments of the verses ("He'll pay for anything, you're his money") to the anything, you're his money") to the chorus, which describes the self-image of just about everyone I know: "It's been a long time since you saw your body/ It looks like someone, yeah, it looks like somebody/ It's not beautiful, it's not ugly/ It's just your body and it looks like somebody else...
...very musical and handsome chorus completes the cast, whose loud denunciation of Alfredo's public shaming of Violetta in the second act is particularly powerful. Joel Bard's musical direction keeps the pace from dragging while making the most of expressive opportunities for the able and tightly synchronized orchestra. Of note is the delicate balance achieved of players and singers in the large ensembles...