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I am in complete agreement (while still trying to figure out why in my
report last week, I misspelled her name consistently...:(
From Heuwell Tircuit's Dec. 11 www.sfcv.org review -
Thursday's performance (of Berio's "Epiphanies") was in every sense
a Spectacular, wherein performance levels ranged between the merely
excellent to the nearly unbelievable. Soprano Flanigan, for instance,
has either sold her soul to the devil, or she possesses the greatest
command of vocal technique and controlled timbre since Kirsten
Flagstad.
During the half-hour Berio work, she sang with incredible beauty
for the lyrical moments, soared through atonal coloratura filigree,
shouted, spoke, raged, hissed and gestured through six languages:
French (Proust), Spanish (Machado), English (Joyce), Italian (Sangumeti)
and German (Brecht). All was beautifully accomplished with assurance.
She moved though Berio's demands with the kind of ease one expects
when hearing the average Christmas carol. And mind you, she made
herself heard through all this against an orchestra worthy of Mahler
in a particularly extravagant mood.
Janos Gereben/SF
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