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the arts desk, 13 September 2015 |
by Gavin Dixon |
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Last Night of the Proms, 2015, London, Royal Albert Hall |
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Last Night of the Proms, BBCSO, Alsop
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A musically variable Last Night, but with plenty of Pomp and Circumstance |
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Ausschnitte: Jonas Kaufmann turned out to be the star of the show, and
his Puccini selections that ended the first half were the highlight of the
evening. Few singers can fill the Albert Hall as effortlessly as he, and
everything came together for these arias, from his idiomatic Italian to the
sheer heart-on-sleeve emotion - controlled, yes, but communicating so
directly and clearly...
....Kaufmann returned for the Lehár ‘Dein ist
mein ganzes Herz’, he too switching between styles with apparently
effortless ease.
.....Kaufmann was out of voice in Rule Britannia!,
barely audible for most of it, though no one seemed to mind.
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