Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.
Oleg Balashov, a robust-voiced tenor, gave a charming veneer to the equally awful Kuragin.
Even Arturo, the arranged husband Lucia murders, was charming as sung by the young tenor Matthew Plenk.
Tyler Duncan sang Friendly with a strong, clear tenor, and Andriana Chuchman proved suitably charming of voice and mien as Flora.
Mostly written in the three decades before the First World War, these charming bel canto airs are usually heard these days as virtuoso tenor encores; here, Heppner restores them to their rightful dignity as charming period settings of superior lyrics, full of buoyancy and grace.
On the recording the great tenor Richard Tucker, singing with style and crisp diction, performs a charming English version by the Martins, which plays with the meaning but gets the point across and closely follows Mozart's melodic line: To doubt Dorabella is simply absurd, Completely absurd!
The appealing cast is headed by a charming young couple: the French soprano Cassandre Berthon as Cendrillon, and the Canadian tenor Fr?ric Antoun as Prince Charmant.
As his daughters, Fleur de Bray (Clorinda) and Heather Lowe (Tisbe) were deliciously nasty; Nico Darmanin's gleaming, hard-edged tenor brought touches of bathos to his panto Prince; Nicholas Lester was a suitably charming Dandini.
His silvery-bright, ringing tenor, with a visage of pug nose and jutting jaw, enhance a stage swagger that nails the domineering, superficially charming but ultimately boorish Pinkerton.
Just be charming, charming, charming.
