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Blanchard mixes sputtered spoken moments into vocal phrases that unfold in a jazz equivalent of Italianate arioso.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
Recitative and arioso passages allow the singers to barrel through words at a tremendous clip.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2015
The obbligato viole d’amore parts in the bass arioso “Betrachte, meine Seel’,” were ravishingly played.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2014
Her vocal lines are mostly routine arioso, while the ensemble writing is most effective when thinned to a single line – a teetering piano solo, perhaps, or a thrummed cello.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2010
To have set them in the sustained arioso style of Tristan und Isolde would have been as impossible as it would have been inept.
From Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score by Lawrence Gilman
Short ariettas and ariosos keep “Serse,” a comic love story, moving along.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2022
His sound is drawn not from the Caucasus or Russia but from a rich well of Western European Romantic melody, and his ariosos are the opera’s best-known excerpts.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2018
