As in the Carter, there are plenty of contrasting dynamics, colors and tempos in these works.
The contemporary scenes, in which the amusing Ms. Tateishi, as the radio narrator, chats with an unseen producer or phones her lover, cleverly make the point that the sexual and social dynamics coloring the relationship between Shun-kin and Sasuke have not exactly gone the way of gaslight.
Richard Croft, the tenor, used dynamics and color affectingly to create the upheaval in the title role.
As usual, everything with Currentzis is extreme: tempo, dynamics, tone color, emotional contrast.
His burnished baritone sounded elegant throughout, with admirable attention given to nuances of phrasing, dynamics and color.
Here that precision was honored, it but was subsidiary to variations in dynamics and color — sometimes subtle, often expansive — that gave the music a painterly quality.
Exuberant dynamics nonetheless color the opening as four women, in Willa Kim's dazzling patchwork dresses of silk and velvet, emerge from three patterned green screens by Eugene Lee.
Meanwhile, Mr. Hvorostovsky just seemed to get better and better, increasing his range of dynamics and color, driving deeper into the music.
But in his most recent work, that is rarely the case; he seems to have turned steadily away from predictable sequences of rhythm, dynamics or color.
Articulation, dynamics and color always seemed carefully considered, and if that sharp focus yielded occasional fussiness — passages where fine-grained detail eclipsed a movement's grander shape — such moments were few.
