Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Private Lives, Noel Coward's tremendously funny play about what might happen when you run into your exspouse on a balcony during your honeymoon with your current spouse, is playing at the Lyric Stage, 54 Charles St., Boston. Performances are Thursday through Sunday at 8 p.m. with a Sunday matinee at 3 p.mn...
...season in New York last week. Weighing in at well over 300 Ibs., his swordsmanship lightheartedly heavy handed, Pavarotti did little visually to make a believable character of Manrico. Vocally it was another matter. This was the kind of elegant, radiant singing that has made Pavarotti the most exciting lyric tenor in all opera. For Pavarotti and opera fans alike, Manrico was a major turning point in a notable career. It was the first time at the Met that Pavarotti had ventured beyond light lyric roles into the deeper waters of dramatic Verdi. It is a step wise lyric tenors...
Watkins attempts too much: he wants Edvard Munch to be biography and documentary, criticism and speculation, psychological analysis and lyric flight...
Fenway is a magnetic old arena, with its 33,368 wooden seats wedged around the grass playing surface at a dozen different angles. "Fenway Park," John Updike once wrote, "is a lyric little bandbox of a ball park. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg." Fenway represents the essence of the game: its powerful, alluring character has drawn millions of New Englanders inside the confines of its red-brick walls summer after summer for the last six decades...
...swashbuckler is essentially a lyric form. The pleasure lies in watching lithe and graceful men defeat villains whom wickedness has rendered ineluctably clumsy. What was fun about an Errol Flynn or a Douglas Fairbanks Sr. movie was not their inevitable triumph but the innumerable ways they found to demonstrate the true nature of their foes by making them trip over their own outsized feet...