Gay City News - Lisa Daltirus made an excellent, devout and tragic Serena, her "juicy lyric" soprano radiating a particularly thrilling spin on top. Lester Lynch drew a tough assignment: portraying Crown with Baker onstage - but he gave it a good shot, even if
Los Angeles Times - McGraw recognizes a catchy tune when he hears one, and this one not only has an instantly hummable chorus but also telegraphs his ambitions as an artist with a nod to Kris Kristofferson in Alphin's lyric: "Since I ain't got nothin' / I ain't got
Boston Globe - Staging a real masked ball complete with violent intrigue might be less daunting than what Boston Lyric Opera has taken on with Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera." It's a co-production with Opera Colorado and The Minnesota Opera, but the world premiere
Detroit News - with "Traviata" closing the season) may be "a bit of a hard sell," DiChiera says he decided on such chancy repertoire "because I wanted to create that kind of contrast, to show how Italian opera evolved -- from the bel canto style through the lyric
Enfield and Haringey Independant - It begins with the first single, Love Is Dead, with the opening lyric: "Nothing ever goes right, nothing ever flows in my life." Anderson says it's the most honest song he's written since Trash a decade ago. The fact that the Anderson still captures
Nashville City Paper - From the sentimentality and tenderness expressed in Lovin You Against My Will or the suggestive romanticism underpinning the lyric celebrations in Songs About Rain, Allan shows he can also illuminate more upbeat narratives and scenarios
MTV - More story-driven songs, concept songs, songs that actually say something rather than just a trendy lyric are coming into popularity. People always want to hear good chords and nice melodies and the right words. It goes in phases, but I think
E Canada Now - After singing about his love interest having a bevy of attractive women to choose from, Sanjaya forgot the next lyric. He realized he forgot to change women to men and now the pronoun predicament implies that Sanjaya s either
Belfast Telegraph - Brian Friel's award-winning play Dancing At Lughnasa is to return to the Lyric Theatre in Belfast for the first time in over 10 years. The world-famous classic will run from June 1 to July 7, directed by Northern Ireland native Mick Gordon, who
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - The song's best-known lyric _ ``way down upon the Swanee River'' _ is a misspelling of the name of the Suwanee River that flows into north-central Florida out of the neighboring Okeefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia. It replaced ``Florida, My
