Word: lyric
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there anything wrong with this? Not exactly. Battle is our reigning lyric coloratura soprano, and Marsalis, a prodigy who continues to grow as both a classical musician and a jazzman, makes a worthy collaborator. It is hard not to be dazzled and delighted by the pyrotechnics they provide in these predominantly bright, florid selections from Handel, Scarlatti, Bach and others. Yet the album, like its predecessors, seems an event built as much on personality and packaging as on musical impulses. And the limitations of its formula are exposed by the nature of most soprano-trumpet duets: the nonstop bravura finally...
...Never Can Tell at the Lyric Stage...
...redeeming power of art in this day and age. Who could possibly believe that the weak, the twisted and the bitter could really be brought back into the fold of civilization just by acting out a play? Timberlake Wertenbaker, author of Our Country's Good, currently playing at the Lyric Stage, certainly thinks...
...Lyric Stage's production may not have quite as much polish as you could wish for, but the spirited acting and the barren stage lend themselves to a certain charm. The play is acted out against Joe levendusky's economical stage design of four gum trees and an anonymous white mass that might be an anthill or a ship's sail...
...ultimately, the Lyric Stage creates a triumphant production, more than worth your while, which proves that art can actually show a "wicked" man that "there is more to life than crime and punishment...