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...actors are as skillful as Jefferson and Scalamoni, Jessica Lichtner's "By My Side" lacks the vitality of the dances without substituting lyric beauty, and Weatherstone's unspectacular performance in what should have been the dominant role deters from the overall effect...
Alexander Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony (Deutsche Grammophon). Lorin Maazel leads a vivid performance of this lush, intense late romantic song cycle...
Onstage, he cuts a splendid figure: blond and handsome, with impossibly blue eyes, an athletic carriage and an assured, commanding presence. His distinctive, honey-rich, seductive lyric baritone voice is equally adept at the histrionic demands of opera and the more intimate sentiments of lieder. He is in demand at the world's great opera houses, has made dozens of recordings and in his native Germany has had his own television show. Along with his colleague and rival Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, he has long been regarded as a leading German baritone of his generation, and possesses a more beautiful...
...lyric-based summary resembled Director Harold Prince's production in relying on superficial descriptions of major events. But Prince's technique ideally suits his purposes. As Eva Person manipulated the media and her people, so too does Evita direct the audience's attention from one newsworthy scene to another. Prince suspends a large screen above the stage onto which he projects news-reels and still photographs of Eva's activities: meetings with the Pope, France, and Argentinian peasants. The Life magazine technique creates excitement which allows the audience to observe the real Evita's magnetism and beauty while an equally...
...Other lyrics evoke laughter of a different nature, "Screw the middle classes!" Evita demands. Sometime thereafter, she sings, "Don't Cry For Me Argentina," whose introduction contains the cliche-ridden lyric. "You wouldn't believe it/ Coming from a girl you once knew/ Although she dressed up to the nines/ At sixes and sevens with you." An otherwise wonderful "High Flying Adored" includes this unusual rhyme; "I'm their savior. That's a what they call me/ So Lauren Bacall me." Fortunately, though, the last lyrics are overshadowed by stage action as Evita rushes back and forth, gradually transforming herself...