His voice is almost baritonal, and it lacks Italianate warmth, but this is beautiful singing nevertheless. |
Basil is the shrewdest and the most worldly, and Geoffrey Rush, with his baritonal amplitude and fondness for pomp, makes him a vain, hollow man, grasping at something that he knows has eluded him his entire life. |
When I first heard Owens, he seemed more basslike than baritonal, but he has developed a cutting, at times electrifying, upper register. |
But critics were not always kind, noting, among other problems, the difficulty of writing for a magnetic but increasingly baritonal tenor — Plácido Domingo, in the title role. |
Only the suave Gerald Finley, today's anti-hero, is entirely sanguine, but that's because his mellifluously baritonal Don has already been acclaimed in half the capitals of the West. |
I've been singing youthful, more baritonal roles for most of my life, but I can't count on them now. |