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You can sample Wagner at a safe distance, via a different kind of big screen, in a live relay this Saturday of the Metropolitan Opera New York's new Rheingold, the start of its first new Ring in 20 years (with Bryn Terfel as Wotan and directed by Robert Lepage), which opened on Monday with Hollywood glitz, thousands watching in Times Square, and a predictable reaction of joy and outrage.
Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Gergiev Fiona Maddocks 2010
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"It's thrilling to walk through the rehearsal rooms and have three of the greatest bass-baritones right now rehearsing under the same roof — Bryn Terfel, Ren é Pape, Ildar Abdrazakov," said Met general manager Peter Gelb.
Taking Flight With the Met Pia Catton 2010
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The curtain call was a delicious mini psychodrama, with Kaufmann, the artist-hero Cavaradossi, taking a simple bow as the audience roared, Terfel equally restrained, provoking a perhaps even more thunderous burst of foot stamping and cheers.
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Unless you hate the interference and really wanted the heady decadence of the ROH's recent staging (just out on an EMI DVD with Bryn Terfel), you can hardly take exception.
Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio Fiona Maddocks 2010
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Terfel, in every sense a towering and mesmerising presence, gave that sordid show of piety even greater force than usual.
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Terfel reveals the tortured, self-loathing complexity of this evil character, too often done merely as a monster.
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The Teatro Real was booked, the queen of Spain invited, and a roster of stars importuned, including Bryn Terfel, Dolora Zajick and René Pape.
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The Washington National Opera - where Domingo remains general manager through June - has supplemented its shortened, five-opera season with two concerts featuring big stars Bryn Terfel, the Welsh bass-baritone, will sing another on March 12.
Juan Diego Florez at Opera House: With metallic voice, tenor sets gold standard 2011
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With a cast led by three of the greatest singers in the world – Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel and, in the title role, Angela Gheorghiu – the stampede of applause alone makes the floorboards tremble.
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My brother told me that it was going to be a big deal – starring Bryn Terfel as Wotan, Deborah Voigt as Brünnhilde, and with James Levine conducting.
Wrung Out in the Ring Cycle Ralph Garder Jr. 2011
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