Recalling his time on the set of Great Expectations, in which he delivers a deftly tender performance as blacksmith Joe Gargery, Jason told me of the first time he came across Helena Bonham Carter, who'd just been cast as Miss Havisham.
Set in the later years of the artist's life, from 1828 onwards, Leigh's film follows Turner through the denial of his daughters and the loss of his father (a wonderfully touching and tender performance by Paul Jesson) to the discovery of new life and love amid growing sickness and infirmity.
The tenor Piotr Beczala brings an exciting, youthful voice to his ardent, tender performance as Rodolfo, although he still seems a tenor who is working out aspects of his singing.
This production is well worth seeing, though, for Liam Brennan's tender performance as Pop, a tragic clown out of time and out of a job.
Another highlight was Ms. von Otter's slightly sassy yet tender performance of the standard "Walkin' My Baby Back Home," performed in a version with Swedish lyrics.
In a tender, theatrical performance, Mr. Rayner runs away with the play, and most audiences will happily cheer him along, since the peripheral characters (his sister and nephew, for instance) seem like padding to his story.
It is a tender, touching performance by Nolte and one that should be remembered at awards time.
After returning in a black leather miniskirt for the encore that began with a tender solo performance of "Strange Mercy," Clark brought back her band, calling Mintseris a "Svengali" and Johnson "a grand architect".
The tenor Piotr Beczala brings his exciting, youthful voice to his ardent, tender performance as Rodolfo, although he still seems a tenor who is working out aspects of his singing.
Her tender performance as Stella in the recent Broadway revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" was the lone bright spot in a lackluster production.
Bevan's tender performance of "I know that my Redeemer liveth" from a hospital bed is outstanding, as is the uncredited violin obbligato in "If God be for us", but "Since by man came death" is frayed and sour and the mass resurrection from perspex sarcophagi is crass.
