Word: parlando
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...Poppea, Music Director Martin Pearlman told his singers to think of the opera as a play before they learned the notes, to put across the long stretches of parlando, or singing speech. His advice paid off, for the performance had an unselfconscious ease about it that helped to eliminate any difficulties the audience might have had with the style, dry by conventional standards but supple and expressive. Especially impressive was the Nero of Susan Larson, taking a part originally written for a male soprano; the Arnalta of Tenor Karl Dan Sorensen, playing a nursemaid in another of the opera...
...minutes of tumultuous applause. Raved the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Stratas intuitively found everything that makes the part touching, the erotic flair of the doomed girl, the fire and despair of her heart. Her light, balanced soprano obeys each impulse: from tender lyricism to great dramatic explosion, from giddy parlando to dolorous espressivo, everything is luminescent and enchanting...
Tumescent strings fill the background with throbbing sound as Burton, with lips parlando, sounds something like Rex Harrison speaking from inside a marshmallow, or-vestigially-even a bit like himself declaiming the splendors of Camelot. He delivers the lines in a throaty whisper...
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