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
The song Sweet Transvestite has been described as the first big, glam-rock aria of the musical, and is the audience's introduction to Dr Frank-N-Furter.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
By contrast, Tyson’s subsequent aria revealing his own old trauma is pat and unconvincing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 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
“Oh, sometimes he reads them poetry. Or he starts talking to them in French. Or singing an aria from an opera. Mr. Brewer has quite a good voice.”
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
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Renowned internationally, she had a busy concert schedule focused on art songs, choral music, opera arias and Negro spirituals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Conductor Corrado Rovaris tended to push the tempi, however, which heightened the excitement but left little space for expressivity and nuance in the rage arias and other moments of high drama.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
He bestows on his characters arias, and Daniel’s cast delivers them as though the words were expressly made for these particular actors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
With its surging choruses and humorous arias and recitatives, to say nothing of its jazzy harmonies and dance rhythms, it possesses an irresistible satiric edge while still evoking American certitude amid Cold War challenges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Indeed, against the backdrop of scientific endeavour and machine-like precision there was a very human emotion that enriched every note of Handel’s solo arias in opera and oratorio: compassion.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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