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Sir Antonio Pappano

Sick Singers

Michael Volpe | Posted 17.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
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Michael Volpe

If you or I get a cold we can sit at our desks, doped on Lemsip and trundle through our day's tasks unwatched, unnoticed, silently. That is a luxury not afforded a performer who must force their voice into spectacularly unnatural contortions, expending monumental amounts of energy in the process.

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LSO/Pappano; Through the Looking Screen; Early Opera Company/Wigmore Hall - review

Paul Guest | Posted 13.03.2012 | Home
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Paul Guest

Ades' Dances from his 2003 opera 'Powder her Face' explored the LSO's versatility. Pappano wonderful accented every phrase he could with his full-bodied gestures guiding the well responsive orchestra through syncopated rhythms and heavy jazz.

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