Word: sopranoes
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...tenor seizes the title role like Domingo, whose vocal potency and dramatic intensity have redefined the part. As Desdemona, Carol Vaness caresses Verdi's most beautiful music with a pure, radiant soprano, while in the pit, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, making his Met debut, leads the score with raw power and passion. The live radio broadcast is April 2; be prepared to be taken by storm...
Fortunately, however, most of the time the words don't need to be poetry, but vehicles for the music. And the vocal and musical quality of the cast is consistently high. Laurie Anne McGowan as Violetta shows remarkable control of a powerful and expressive soprano voice...
...movie begins with a shot of the as-yet- unidentified Sophie ascending a staircase that appears much too wide for her small frame. She rises on stage. As she mounts the stairs, the orchestra accompanying Mme. Brice becomes increasingly audible, and when Sophie finally stands watching soprano and orchestra from the balcony, the audience sees the singer's face--closeup against black background--through her eyes. After the concert, Sophie proceeds backstage to introduce herself to Mme. Brice and request an audition, and is swept into the tumult of the soprano's life and her post-performance party...
...much opera means in his life, "no opera queen's apartment is that organized" and "no opera queen would have opera on in the background", waiting to be turned up at the appropriate moment. Contrast this with Koestenbaum's explanation of feeling "object" before the "subject" of the soprano voice. Tom Hanks never loses center stage of Maria Callas. Were that to happen, his status as hero of the film might be in question; opera would serve no longer as one aspect of his gay personality but as a consuming addiction that stigmatized...
...fires the temperamental soprano for being diva-like...