Word: sopranoã
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This alteration to the soprano??s text played a crucial role in demonstrating the communicative difficulties between the opera’s two characters—how do two people interact when they are in entirely separate worlds? Parra offered a succinct answer: “It was clear you couldn’t do this with typical classical music...
...betray three men simultaneously in the show’s first hour and emerge as a paragon of fidelity in the second one. She didn’t have an excellent romantic figure to work with in Jay Smith’s Ormindo, whose alto—bordering on soprano??was at first a bit disconcerting.James B. Onstad ’10 seemed to understand Baroque pantomime better than the rest, delivering both comedy and drama at exactly the right moments. Another standout was Julia S. Cavallaro ’08 as Mirinda, Erisbe’s lady...
...hushed music of the prelude before Isolde’s song. Her clear voice easily soared over the orchestra’s accompaniment. Rich and full in sound, each individual note seemed to weigh down the phrases, pushing against the natural flow of the musical lines. Despite the soprano??s heavy phrases, Hangen, was able to control the piece’s flow and ebb and give the music a sense of direction. Though the ensemble was a bit messy at the song’s end, the finale elicited warm applause and a few whistles of admiration...
...Council investigates, the situation in the projects gets more and more combustible, with racist white cops on one side and vaguely offensive straw-men of feisty blacks on the other. And then, that plot line sort of disappears just in time for “The Soprano??s” Edie Falco to arrive as the leader of a group of mothers who organize hunts for missing children. Falco has the magic power of importing hundreds of volunteers on a moments notice...
...their parents, dentists and partners-in-practice David (Campbell Scott) and Dana Hurst (Hope Davis). The blond babes are also the only thing rooting David to the roost—he thinks he has witnessed his wife stealing a kiss backstage at her debut singing Verdi as an amateur soprano??and his visions of her infidelity envelop him as the movie progresses. These fantasies are spurred by David’s ethereal companion, Slater (Denis Leary), his most difficult patient, who follows him home in spirit to tap his repressed emotions. Through accomplished acting and exacting direction...