Word: dictional
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...German version of the Ring especially, one could see and hear London's influence on the singers' diction, gestures and all-round Wagnerian style. Where his touch left off, Conductor Henry Holt's picked up. The Vienna-born, Los Angeles-reared Holt, 41, has been the Seattle Opera's music director for nine years. His Wagner may lack Sir Georg Solti's dynamism. But it has warmth, coherence and authority...
...speaking with her mother's haughty assurance yet still compulsively playing Daddy's girl, that she is instantly, perceptively comical in a way that the men's flabby clowning is not. Her blue-blooded New England accent, sharp and petted, is a perfect edge against Nicholson's nasal, sparwling diction and Beatty's bland tones (though she's mostly allowed to say things like. "You're so je ne sais quoi, I could just eat you!"). She has a great face, amazingly variable: she looks like the cherub on the Gerber Food labels. When she rages about boredom and neglect...
Although born and raised in New York City (and a 1951 graduate of Harvard), Gwynne has mastered his small-town New Hampshire accent to absolute perfection. The consistency and authenticity of his diction are uncanny. I've never seen so fine a Stage Manager. And this is the best work Gwynne has ever done--a flawless performance...
...Collegium displayed the polished technique that has become the hallmark of Adams's choruses. Their tone was solid and well-blended; their diction was a model of properly popped consonants. Yet the performance didn't really get off the ground until well into the second half. Like a sonnet reader who calls attention to each iamb, Adams tended to emphasize the repetitive Baroque rhythms at the expense of larger phrases. Part of this problem can be traced to the widespread malady of the pick-up orchestra. This was the usual random group of instrumentalists thrown together to accompany a university...
...tawk propah. Last week, at a seminar with an audiologist invited by the United Taxi Owners Guild, the hackies struggled like so many Eliza Doolittles to correct elided consonants, curdled diphthongs and other "substan-dardisms" peculiar to the area. If all goes well, they may give up on diction and speak only when spoken...