Word: duetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Long So Wrong ought to be Krauss's sellout album--the one where she signs with a big label, paddles in the pop mainstream, does a Streisand duet, maybe has a few cuts produced by Babyface. But Krauss is a constant lass: she's been with Union Station and Rounder Records since she was a 14-year-old fiddle phenom (she's now 25). The new set has no guest shots or power-pop charts. It's just 48 minutes of beautiful music...
Though the finale of Act I, where a duet becomes a trio and then a quartet, is the opera's grandest moment, there are more musical gems in Act II. This is true partly because the orchestra's role becomes more important: it offers sympathy for the lovelorn Nemorino. Adina's emotional volatility is manifest in ever-higher notes and ever-wider leaps. Turay and Saffer, by far the most talented singers in the production, were brilliant throughout. His rendition of "Una furtiva lagrima" got more applause than any other aria; her passionate confidence in the panacea...
...libretto by Wayne Koestenbaum, author of the panegyric 1995 book Jackie Under My Skin, Jackie O is a surreal fantasy in which the former First Lady rubs shoulders with Liz Taylor and Andy Warhol, falls in and out of love with Aristotle Onassis and sings a climactic duet of posthumous reconciliation with J.F.K...
...deflowered, he swears revenge and hires a paid assassin, Sparafucile, to murder the duke at a wayside inn. As for the denouement, suffice it to say that Gilda, despite ample evidence of her lover's inconstancy, dies to save his life...but not before singing a last extended duet with her broken-hearted father...
...beginning of Act Three, combining expressive phrasing and a smooth, full richness of tone that impressed even this Pavarotti fan. But he faded a bit in the other favorite, "La donna e mobile" (in this translation, "Woman's fidelity") and went slightly hoarse in the lilting, flirtatious duet with Madalena. Nevertheless, he brought a professional polish and pleasing musicality to the role immortalized by Luciano...