Word: parlando
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
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