Its famous mad scene apart, Lucia is surprisingly Classical, based on a succession of conventional double arias and bipartite duets. |
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Handelian arias were either brilliant vocal displays or sustained sublime showstoppers. |
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At that audition I did not have any Baroque arias prepared so I sang my usual bel canto coloratura and he hired me on the spot. |
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Whether in strophic arias, simple canzonettas or elaborate madrigals, Kiehr's singing is effortlessly lush and nicely emotionally understated. |
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Soprano Rosalind Sutherland sings in the New Year with an excellent selection of arias, polkas, marches and waltzes from Strauss. |
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His arias became more expressive in the 1840s, but he also continued to use popular song types such as barcarolles, ballades, and chansons. |
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Like opera itself, the novel is outsized and outrageous, with evil curses, nervous breakdowns, and overwhelming arias. |
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Nevertheless, her plain delivery stripped of vocal runs, trills and decorations can make her long baroque arias sound staid and matronly. |
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Songs, arias, and operatic scenes are mixed together, and that works well too. |
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While everyone performs well enough, it is only in the closing arias that the opera comes alive. |
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It is a beautiful opera, full of lush arias, sensuous waltzes, and an intriguing amount of transvestism. |
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On the other hand, the arias, despite some dangerously unstable passages and wobbly intonation from the orchestra, were excellent. |
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Some of the introductions to these arias are quite lengthy, which gives the players their own chance to shine. |
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Later, as a teenager, I took voice lessons and spent afterschool hours sitting at the piano, singing show tunes and arias to an empty house. |
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She was also a gifted singer and could sing French opera arias in perfect pitch. |
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Most of the work is punctuated with recitatives and arias with not much choral work but the work did not bore me at all. |
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Italian solo cantatas of the late 17th and early 18th centuries contained arias on the operatic model. |
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It should be noted that Mozart was hardly kind when scoring the operatic arias for the full lyric soprano. |
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The portrayal of the situations is assisted by cantatas, arias, duets, operas and music. |
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Only Bartoli could have made best-selling albums out of obscure arias by Scarlatti, Vivaldi and Gluck. |
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He has perfect clarity in the fastest patter arias that would leave most bass-baritones tripping over themselves. |
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In the solo arias in the first and third acts, Pavarotti rang out the high notes with that clarion sonority that is unmistakably his. |
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Through the difficult moments she kept herself going by listening to operatic arias or Beatles' compilations over a headset. |
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The concert includes Mozart's Requiem, Missa Brevis, operatic arias and music for the Christmas season. |
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Nevertheless, a concert of operatic arias and scenes, or a complete concert performance would not have been impossible, of course. |
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These four scenes for Savage are quite significant, involving not just recitative but a sequence of strong da capo arias. |
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This is one of my favourite arias from one of my favourite oratorios, and a piece I have known since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. |
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But she was no stranger to the operatic arias, because her parents often took her to the opera in Monaco, where she grew up. |
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Yet the beauty of Bellini's arias and ensembles would leave a lasting mark on operatic history. |
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But bursts of operatic arias, incessant chatter and the clatter of pots and pans give it a curiously relaxing bustle. |
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Two seasons ago she gave a thrilling concert of Verdi arias for the Concert Association. |
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I would love to return to Ireland one day to sing concerts of arias and Irish songs. |
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From hilarious scenes to heart-rending arias, the show promises audiences a fun evening with an original take on opera in all its guises. |
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Opera, as most of them knew it, with its arias, love duets, and noble emotions, did not interest the composer. |
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How distant those days of divas and arias must seem now as he watches the clouds gather over the Cuillins. |
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The first two cantatas consist of two arias, each preceded by a recitative. |
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There are some great arias, fine ensemble pieces, and choruses whose effect is visceral. |
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Also, the music is more sectional, with clearly defined arias, ensemble pieces, and choruses. |
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The characters don't so much speak as speechify, in arias out of second-rate literature. |
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The baroque Italian used for the libretto is complicated and often encumbers the listener, taking away from the melodic tunes of the arias. |
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The concert will include many opera favourites including arias from Bizet, Puccini and Dvorak. |
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In the 18th and 19th centuries the barcarole inspired a considerable number of vocal and instrumental compositions, ranging from opera arias to character pieces for piano. |
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Taylor, a native of Vancouver who is known for her stunning voice in arias and Black spirituals, performs regularly at concerts, recitals, and special functions. |
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At the New York City Opera he sang the title role of Handel's Rinaldo, a marathon venture with eight arias, two duets, and batches of tricky roulades. |
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As he only comes to notice a year before he joined Handel's company, the bass who sang so vigorously in those early arias written for him must have been remarkably young. |
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Mining fresh musical landscapes, they segued from Broadway show tunes to musical comedy to arias by Verdi and Puccini in a sparkling cabaret revue. |
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Here opera arias prove more effective than a s.w.a.t. team and diplomats combined at resolving an international incident. |
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This he accomplishes like an oratorically gifted Luca Brasi by muscling transgressors with arias of insult. |
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This compilation includes operatic arias and crossover songs. |
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But I do agree with you about the exquisiteness of some operatic arias. |
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This time, as well as operatic arias, Caruso included some Italian songs. |
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Nevertheless, he still can tear passion to tatters in the verismo arias. |
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Drawing from the previously and newly recorded material, he was able to assemble a collection of the complete tenor arias. |
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Neal Goren conducts a buoyant performance, and the young cast gamely dispatches the impracticably difficult arias. |
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He quickly established an accessible, repeatable operatic formula, combining situation comedy plots with the frequent arias demanded by his audiences. |
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The arias contained in the work are dominantly of two types, the aria di bravura, with rich coloratura elements, and the aria parlante, in declamatory vocal style. |
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Feel free to show your appreciation by clapping at the end of big arias, at the end of a scene and, of course, at the final curtain call. |
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Over the years Fabienne has developed a career in entertainment where she adds naughtiness and fun to her interpretation of famous arias. |
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Or lose yourself in Puccini's heartbreakingly beautiful arias in works such as La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. |
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Its pure coloratura sparkled through her early arias, drawing bursts of applause. |
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Ben Johnson's performance as Alfredo is heroic, transcending his impossible character and delivering his arias with heart-rending plangency. |
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The free elements of the composition take the forms customary at the time: da capo arias are predominant. |
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Passages in archaically stern counterpoint sit alongside the most modern, even chivalrous arias. |
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Donald Maxwell is a seasoned operatic buffo, who nicely cherishes, relishes and polishes his pontificating arias, with chorus usually dancing attendance. |
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Those which survive consist of some dozen motets, solo strophic arias with instrumental accompaniment, and a few cantatas and organ chorales. |
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Each candidate must present seven opera or opera buffa arias of their own choice, drawn from the l8th, l9th and 20th centuries. |
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For evening performances, Chen shifts her arias to melodramatic tales of ancient swordsmen. |
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Brightman is a pioneer in transcending and melding mainstream musical genres, from pop and Broadway showstoppers to operatic and classical arias. |
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Few novelists have the ability to make the English language do whatever he wants, to make it do cartwheels and sing arias. |
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The recitatives were no longer rhymed, contrary to the arias and recitatives of German opera. |
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Snatches of arias from operas by Verdi fly past like wisps of sound and accompany the memory of situations in which his mother rediscovered love. |
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Christine Goerke not only plays Armida with sly wit, but she also sings the exacting fioriture and lyrical arias with razor-sharp precision and elegant musicianship. |
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Divas once raced over from the Covent Garden opera house to perform their arias. |
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Matthew White's gorgeous, pure countertenor resounded like a clarion call during his solo arias? |
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In fact with his square face and jet-black hair he looks a bit like a singer of operatic arias. |
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The final two arias are sung by Alcina as she begins to lose her magical powers. |
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Musically, the work follows Puccini's previous style: Continuity in the musical language which is barely interrupted by one or two arias. |
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Singing arias and lieder in their original language, which the performer usually hasn't mastered and certainly doesn't think or feel in, is a huge challenge. |
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This work contains one of Handel's favourite arias, Cara sposa, amante cara, and the famous Lascia ch'io pianga. |
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Handel's operas are filled with da capo arias, such as Svegliatevi nel core. |
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For the first time Handel allowed Gioacchino Conti, who had no time to learn his part, to substitute arias. |
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For this performance the transposed Guadagni arias were restored to the soprano voice. |
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Handel permitted singers to employ grace notes in the arias of his oratorios, but he insisted that they should not be mere embellishments serving simply for outward display. |
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Transitioning from audibles to arias would seem the most disharmonic of bridge passages, with the barbarity of football and the elegance of opera at opposite ends of the entertainment spectrum. |
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Never had his melodic genius been more effulgent: the score contains some of his most precious jewels, like Cleopatra's arias, now seductive, now lamenting. |
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It has an impressive double choir and an enlarged spectrum of arias and madrigals. For the first time, a composition made general use of the combination of arioso and arias. |
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Neapolitan composers, headed by Alessandro Scarlatti, concerned themselves in the intermezzo with dramatic, comic interplay between two singers in two or three short acts made up of arias, recitatives, and duets. |
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The instruments have a sinfonia and several ritornellos, but they perform in ensemble with the singers only in two internal arias. |
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In an opera, you will hear arias, which are sung by a soloist or by duos. |
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Once again the Peruvian tenor is clearly at the top of his game as he tackles an exhausting array of virtuoso arias and scenas. |
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Venetian operas were extravagant affairs in which the improbable plots a mixture of comic and serious elements—unfolded in simple recitative, and the arias took on a new, lyrical idiom. |
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The subjective nature of the narrative is reflected in a very dramatically marked style of recitative, which presents a charming contrast to the expressive choral writing and the melodically accented arias. |
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Single-part passages for the piano, with interpolations by the orchestra with the dominant theme of the movement-a heartfelt recitative, such as often precede the great operatic arias, but wordless. |
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She handles the virtuoso arias as if they are pieces of cake and is also able to sing more reflective, lyrical moments in an appealingly simple manner. |
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The expressive virtuosity, the animated brilliance such as characterizes important bel canto arias, was later adopted by Chopin as the model for his concertante works. |
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It was usually written for a single voice and consisted of alternating recitatives and arias. Both gallant and elegiac poems were sung as cantatas, as were dramatic love stories about the Gods. |
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The greater composers of the era created thicker accompaniments, transforming their arias into duets between the voice and a particular instrument. |
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The major arias alternate with declamations and acrobatics, and the singing is always accompanied by stylized and very elaborate movements and gestures. |
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There will be two cantatas for alto voice and strings, with the organ taking the solo obligato role in the arias. |
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Wales find themselves in England's tent in Euro 2016, so Roy Hodgson will tire quickly of hearing about hwyl, hymns and arias, and homegrown heroes from the valleys. |
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As Eumolpus, the work's singing narrator, the tenor must negotiate a series of treacherous arias that suggest Russian Orthodox chant, 18th-century Italian opera and, occasionally, Cole Porter. |
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Georges Bizet's rich musicology is adapted in a Pacific feat with lali drums, bamboo nose flute, ukeleles and clapping in accord with more classical instruments to create original sounds from Bizet's famous arias. |
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To be found on this recording are arias and organ chorals associated with Advent, Christmas, New Year, Septuagesima, Annunciation, Easter, Pentecost, Trinity and Reformation Sunday. |
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In addition to ballets, designed of course for dance, one can hear choruses and arias which allow pure instrumental tones and soloistic talent to emerge from the great vocal scores. |
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Second, he was concerned about cuts: the libretto was far too long, and Mozart had set it spaciously, so that much trimming of the recitative, of the choral scenes, and even of two arias in the final acts was needed. |
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He'd been listening endlessly to CDs and had learned arias parrot-fashion. |
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More than in his other sacred music, Vivaldi here uses all traits of opera and bel canto : the arias are da capo, and the reprises may be ornamented. |
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An adaptation of the Italian cantata, with its rather linear succession of recitatives and da capo arias, the French form quickly departed from the original model, and became freer. |
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While Campbell's concert repertoire included German lieder by Brahms and Schumann, French and Italian art songs, folk songs and operatic arias, he recorded mainly repertoire from light opera. |
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In a wideranging repertoire, from baroque to modern, from the familiar to new discoveries, the group will perform solos and duets combining famous arias and unique arrangements. |
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To be released in January 2014. Mozart's arias are lesser-known, and thought to have been composed with various librettists over the course of his career. |
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In Fiala's setting, Agnes's part is recited and interlaid with soprano arias, while St Francis's answers are sung by a male chorus. |
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It's a very moving story, and Handel's music to it is great, with wonderful highlights and very special arias and accompanying recitativos. |
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Most of the arias follow the vocal section with a ritornello scored for two to five strings, occasionally in scordatura tunings. |
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The band's repertoire included signature tune Men of Harlech and Italian arias O Sole Mio and Nessun Dorma. |
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Familiar arias and choruses are dropped into a crazy quilt of a story, making up an on-the-spot opera using pieces from other operas. |
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The arias in common time often require quick, aggressive diction on chains of eighth notes, or a voice capable of great inflection. |
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Yet other ballad operas from around this time, such as Charles Johnson's The Village Opera, also have arias sung to the tune of All in the Downs', but print Leveridge's tune. |
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We are among the beautiful yet decadent people, immaculately turned out, sniffing mysterious powders and, where required, delivering their scenas and arias into mobile phones. |
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However, O graBes Musenliechtsurrounds the vocal section with identical ritornellos, while two wedding arias for four voices and continue lack ritornellos altogether. |
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