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A triumph of youth
It's not often this hardened international music critic is overcome with emotion at a performance. After a life spent both front of house and backstage, there's not a lot I haven't seen.
A heroic journey
Back in the 18th century, it was the infamous castrati who ruled the theatrical stages of Europe. Tall, gangly eunuchs, they had been mutilated during childhood in an attempt to preserve their angelic singing voices. Deprived of testosterone, their voices remained astonishingly high -- a boy's voice in the body of a full-grown adult male. They were strange, yet compelling performers and became the biggest pop stars of their day.
Youthful grandeur
'Wouldn't you just die without Mahler?" So exclaims Trish, played by the redoubtable Maureen Lipman, in a memorable scene from the 1980s film Educating Rita. Dressed in flowing bohemian attire, her voice is barely audible above the crashing symphonic music pouring from the house. On the pavement stands Julie Walters as Rita, the gauche outsider, confronting a world of pretentious dinner parties and flamboyant characters whose every remark lands like an epigraph by Oscar Wilde.
Bangkok Post - Spirit of Siam
In Thailand, family is sacred and mothers above all are revered. Perhaps this is why the tale of Mae Naak -- the young mother who dies giving birth -- has resonated so deeply within the national psyche for well over a century. Refusing to leave her riverside home at Phra Khanong in Bangkok, her defiant spirit lingers, constructing a life of domestic bliss based entirely on illusion.
The Silent Prince casts a tropical spell
An opera staged on a tropical island with palm trees for scenery and the setting Sun as its backdrop sounds like the stuff of dreams. Yet, late last month this fantasy became reality when I found myself at one of the most memorable operatic events I have witnessed in more than three decades working with this art form.
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