Word: weltschrnerz
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...voice is bright and well cultivated rather than monumental, but at her best she left no doubt what Janáček had in mind. She is a superb actress who lacks only a measure of grandeur to suggest a woman doddering under the weight of three centuries of Weltschrnerz. But then, by the opera's standards, she is still three centuries or so too young for the part...
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