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  • Dying heroines are no novelty in opera, but this exit is especially classy in its strict composition: the ground bass heard in full before the aria's first words is repeated 11 times, which adds to the restrained, tragic intensity.

    The 10 best classical tear-jerkers Fiona Maddocks 2010

  • Well operatic it is, but huge tales compressed into short aria's for a single opera?

    Filmstalker: Harry Potter opera? 2006

  • The Telegraph today speaks of the aria's 'intense, jaw-dropping beauty'.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Jessica 2007

  • The Telegraph today speaks of the aria's 'intense, jaw-dropping beauty'.

    Wanted: one brave director Jessica 2007

  • That Amfortas communicates the disgrace of racial calamity in music of compelling beauty should not close the mind to his aria's and the essay's source in the same polluted well, not a minor business, in my opinion.

    Wagner & Politics Gutman, Robert W. 2001

  • The aria's meaning, the ears, the Soul, swiftly deposit -

    Leaves of Grass [1867] 1867

  • The aria's meaning the ears, the soul, swiftly depositing,

    Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855

  • Jaroussky's well-articulated phrasing expanded the aria's melodic amplitude without ever disturbing its effortless forward motion, and his da capo variations were both bold and convincing.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN 2011

  • But Michie sold even that, delivering the aria's quick-step patter superbly and shaping the musical lines with knowing insinuation.

    SFGate: Top News Stories Joshua Kosman 2011

  • The violin takes up the theme with kindred fervor before bolting off into a mini-concerto with furious scales und fervent arpeggios, as if giving full fury to the aria's emotional, if purely rhetorical, defense of Jesus.

    CounterPunch 2010

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