aria
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In Costanzo’s closing aria, “Gandhi’s Prayer,” he leaves behind, Christ-like, hatred and exultation for unsullied love.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
Mezzo Kelsey Lauritano’s Erika got a few lyrical moments, including her signature aria, “Must the winter come so soon,” which was briefly reprised—unnecessarily—to drive home the bleakness of the ending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
The entire cycle converges in her final 20 minute-long aria, a task that demands the endurance of a cross-country skier and the precision of a sharpshooting biathlete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Not everyone was happy with the last minute arrangement however, with some members of the audience reportedly booing when the opera's famous aria -- Nessun dorma -- was omitted.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
If, for Italians, the supreme expression of their love of music was the emotionally charged operatic aria, for Russians it was dance.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
In this tale of an imprisoned queen, her supposedly dead husband, and her struggle against a usurper, brilliantly characterized arias succeed each other like jewels, ratcheting up the emotion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Additional Vivaldi arias and ensembles are deftly interpolated among the scrambled “Seasons” movements, their words a combination of Ms. Ruhl’s new English texts and the original Italian and Latin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
With his sensitive interpretations, Mr. Costanzo was the standout among the singers, but they all gamely tackled the challenges of their full da capo arias.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
Playwright Richard Greenberg was the maestro of shimmering verbal arias.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
They sing arias, recitatives, choruses supported by an orchestra.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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