FORT WORTH Chalk up another major accomplishment for the Citadel Worth Opera Festival. The last of this year's four productions just isn't quite the Ariadne auf Naxos of desires, but it's wittily staged, by Donald Gately, and was generally well sung at Saturday night's launching, at Bass Performance Hall.
The production, with scenery by way of Robin Vest and outfits by Susan Memmott Allred, comes from this Utah Symphony/Utah Opera. For the Prologue, your curtain rises on a huge, and handsome, neoclassical room, most white. Shipping containers usually are stenciled "Vienna Hofoper." The cast shows up in apt 18th century apparel.
After intermission, the margins in the set become a proscenium, complete with cardboard boxes. A new backdrop evokes the actual opera within the opera placing on the island of Naxos. Front painted panel rocks tend to be visibly manipulated from the chicken wings.
My own dream Ariadne would have a soprano creamier, less brassy, than Marjorie Ghd Cheap Hair Straighteners Owens', and a more liquescent legato. She also went curiously inert during the comedians' shtick. But it's a fascinating voice, with the depth together with decibels for the role. (I personally kept imagining how good an ice princess the girl could have been in the Dallas Opera's latest Turandot.) She also has the cast's best German.
Corey Bix, as Bacchus, has a tenor 50 percent a size smaller, having a tendency to spread on the top notes and an occasional patch of uncertain intonation. But it is still a hefty voice, having Ghd Sale Uk apt muscle to the overall tone. Looking like a compact cross between Jeremy Scott Adidas Ebay Jean Burnett and Lily Tomlin, Audrey Luna's spunky Zerbinetta flits fetchingly around the stage and flutters easily through her vocal fireworks.
Cecelia Hall is a real find for the Composer, her enameled mezzo strong and Vibram Five Fingers Brisbane admirably deployed. Ian McEuen is an aptly fey Dancing Master
Winding out up his face as if he's just bitten right into a lemon, William V. Madison is undoubtedly an irresistibly uptight, imperious Major Domo, delivering his or her commands in a Vibram Shoes Review shrill tenor.
Steven Eddy, Zak Engle and Eileen Porter are fine as, respectively, Harlekin, Scaramuccio and Brighella. But the standout while in the commedia dell'arte troupe is a warm Louboutin Shoes On Sale toned Truffaldin with Anthony Reed. Jeni Houser and Amanda Robie are a little raw for the nymphs Najade and Dryade, however Corrie Donovan, as Vibram Shoes Online a luminous Echo, features another of the voices I had be interested to hear more.
Audio director Joe Illick and the stream-lined orchestra (by Strauss' design) got off to a good start, with Christian Louboutin Shoes Ebay a healthy buoyancy and pliancy in the prelude, and the majority of what followed went coupled well enough. Gorgeous horn solos were doubtless the work of FWSO principal Level Houghton.
But ensemble loosened over a couple of patches, and even the small attire sometimes overwhelmed voices. There was also too many out of melody notes in more exposed keyboard lines.
All told, it was a entertaining show, and the crowd responded and laughed consistently. But I could only agree with the fact once again with The New Grove Lexicon of Opera that "the inflated closeflatters neither the romantic factor nor the original point of a piece."
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