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...imagery and visual techniques in the movie, it is easy to be distracted and miss the peculiar role. Sally Potter gives sex in the movie. Only rarely can one ever be sure whether the character on screen is male or female. The lyrics to the mystical soundtrack are always soprano and a male singer is always, displayed. The ancient queen Orlando befriends, Elizabeth I, is played by a male actor. This makes a bedroom scene so hilarious that it is almost disturbing...
...recording, with soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow in the title role and John Mauceri conducting, is probably as good a performance as this very demanding work is likely to get. But for a better take on Korngold's particular genius, rent a videocassette of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex...
...When the singer wants to talk back at a lover who's been "runnin' 'round with those nasty hoes," she has to cut her way through a lush sonic rain forest. As if she were afraid of getting lost in the jungle depths, Jackson enlisted the aid of opera soprano Kathleen Battle, whose soaring obbligato she chases through the song like a kid following a bread-crumb trail out of a fairy-tale forest...
Crooning in a lovely soprano voice--only occasionally dropping to a husky low whisper--New York cabaret singer and female impersonator Grae Phillips captivated an audience of more than 100 in the Adams House dining hall last night...
Seek and ye shall find: since its release last April, more than 200,000 copies of the Nonesuch CD, featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Zinman, have been sold worldwide, 140,000 of them in Britain. An average classical album usually sells around 15,000 copies; the Gorecki recently sold 14,000 in a single day in Britain...