Word: sopranoes
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...music is undeniably majestic. Morris writes that “for the rest of the century, symphonic composers would struggle in vain to write anything that sounded bigger.” Beethoven, deaf and facing the orchestra, did not realize the audience was enthusiastically clapping until a teenage soprano turned him around...
...wrenching intensity. Without a credible foundation for Carmen and Don José’s attraction, this production was unable to reach those emotional heights. Still, the scenes that belonged to Baldwin alone were charged with excitement, owing much to her versatile voice. Baldwin, a mezzo-soprano, brought her voice to the extremes of sweet delicacy and gnarly roughness in order to capture Carmen’s allure. Similarly impressive were the vocal talents of Jennifer Baldwin Peden (real-life sister of Christina), who played Micaëla. With her dulcet soprano, Peden gave Micaëla?...
...secret to some of the best HBO series is dirt. Not filthy language, not nudity--actual dirt. The muck in the streets of Deadwood, Tony Soprano's soldiers exhuming an incriminating body, the Fisher family tossing shovelfuls in the grave as Six Feet Under buried its lead character Nate--all this soil embodies the network's insistence on deprettifying its subjects...
That's happened a number of times. Julia MacKenzie in Side by Side by Sondheim in London, when she did Broadway Baby, started it very tentative and quiet and timid and then suddenly opened up in a Wagnerian soprano--that was something that had never occurred to me, and it was stunning...
...everyone hopes--will become routine. American audiences will doubtless give standing ovations to major Soviet troupes. "The Bolshoi Ballet will sell out as long as the world turns," says Niefeld. Cognoscenti hope that future visits will also bring such top performers as Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, Saxophonist Alexei Kozlov, Mezzo-Soprano Elena Obraztsova, and even Pianist Vladimir Feltsman, whose career was halted by Soviet authorities in 1979 when he applied for permission to emigrate to Israel...