Word: lyrical
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...Sons--Lyric Stage, 54 Charles St., Boston...
...average song, like the horn-sectioned ditty-turned-anthem "I Need Your Love" or the off-beat, off-key "Lisa Likes Rock and Roll". Other times, it causes weak songs to show up even worse, like the ostentatious "Leave Me Alone," which sounds like Donna Summer having lost her lyric sheet, or the let's-play-with-synthesizers "Noises", which musically proves its lyrical intent--"Noises: the sound of mediocrity." The obligatory Hunter ballads sound tired--"Old Records Never Die" is certainly the result of a bottom-of-the-barrel search for a hero--and "Rain" is a sedative that...
Burns, Blake and the Recovery of the Lyric--Leopoid Damrosch; Boylston Auditorium...
...pedestrian level. Strauss's Daphne, written when the composer was 72, is a tired piece, with only one touch of genius: the wizardry of the instrumental passage depicting the mythic heroine as she turns into a laurel tree. As Daphne, Soprano Roberta Alexander sang with an unusually pure lyric voice. But it's a long wait for the laurels-which will never be awarded to Daphne anyway. -By Michael Walsh
This has come as a surprise to those who have always thought of her as essentially a lyric soprano, including Freni. Says she: "When I started, I thought Mozart and La Bohème would be the maximum for me." For challenging her to expand her range she credits Karajan, the controversial, magisterial Austrian conductor who has played Svengali to her Trilby. It was with Karajan at La Scala that she came to international attention, singing Mimi in Franco Zeffirelli's 1963 production of La Bohème, and it has been with Karajan at his Salzburg Festival that...