'IN THE PENAL COLONY' In more modest precincts American Opera Projects offered a striking performance of this chamber opera by Mr. Glass, based on Kafka's short story of the same name, at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights in October.
The women (or, as Alfie says, "birds") belong to different generations, from middle age (as strikingly incarnated by Shelley Winters) to adolescence (an equally striking performance by Jane Asher), and — again avoiding spoilers — Alfie, stuck in a seemingly permanent youth, is made aware of the passing years when he's supplanted in one lover's bed by a younger man with an electric guitar.
She appeared in April 1836 as Lady Macbeth in a striking performance.
As an encore Mr. Ehnes rewarded the enthusiastic audience with a striking performance of Paganini's Caprice No. 16.
At the heart of the film is a striking performance from Ray Liotta who plays mobster Henry Hill.
Annette Bening gives a striking performance as the bohemian 1970s mother in "20th Century Women".
The acting has the raw reality we find in Ken Loach and, at the centre, as Richard, there's another striking performance by Paddy Considine, who co-scripted the picture with Meadows.
Formative frictions aside, the account was seamless and ravishing, with striking performances by the tenor Sean Panikkar and the narrator Jean Stilwell.
Equally, there are striking performances by Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, Tom Bower and others as townspeople and lawmen, their faces leathery and weathered by the remorseless world they live in.
In 2010 there were striking performances by the Chinese pianist Sa Chen and the Czech Libor Novácek (who gave a spine-tingling and in my experience unsurpassed performance of Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition).
