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Jean
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posted: 3/12/2005 at 5:34:05 AM ET
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At the Kennedy Center, from the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28631-2005Mar11.html

(The reviewer is the main theater critic for the Post; perhaps the music critic should have reviewed it.)

An excerpt:
"LuPone, in a series of appealingly lavish costumes by Tracy Christensen, is a fine sneak of a Regina. Her distinctive voice, which once upon a time ignited the firecracker essence of "Evita," is pure Broadway, and the colors in her sound clash a bit at times with those of the more dynamic opera stars. She's a bit of an exchange student here, and although you admire her adventurousness, you also can't help wishing that she'd break into a bit of Cole Porter, or something by the Gershwins."


jmslsu01
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posted: 3/12/2005 at 12:15:39 PM ET
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So...I guess he liked Patti's performance? What a backhanded review.

Who usually writes opera reviews? Theater critics or music critics? I never read opera reviews-nothing against the opera,but I never go-so I have no idea. Although now that I'm in Houston,I want to go. I know music and the voice are the main focus in opera,and not the acting,so do music critics generally review the operas?

Interesting. I'm off to check the various big newspapers.

Jenn

Jean
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posted: 3/12/2005 at 12:35:23 PM ET
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Tim Page is the classical music critic for the Washington post--he reviews opera and--classical music.

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