He dearly wants Anna to marry the valiant Venetian general Calbo, a pants role spanning an enormous range and replete with fiery coloratura, sung here by the dark-hued mezzo-soprano Patricia Bardon in an uneven though courageous performance.
Placing Foster's songs in an ideal setting to understand their impact, Mr. Kirwan has reinvigorated them, with members of the full-throated cast singing a fiery "Camptown Races"; a tender "Oh, Susanna"; a soulful "Old Folks at Home"; a stirring "Hard Times Come Again No More".
Actually they spend most of the game on their feet — screaming, singing, and hurling fiery objects into the air.
The song's "sharp riffs, fiery speak-sing vocals and constant forward momentum" exemplify the band's typical sound.
Mr. Daniels inhabited the pieces, singing with a rich tone, fiery emotional drive and a commanding sense of drama.
These two musicians are an ideally matched duo, with Mr. Denk's fiery playing complementing Mr. Bell's luxuriant singing tone.
I heard she carried two full-grown ladies for 10 years named Michelle and Kelly," Morgan retorted, in a fiery zinger at Beyoncé's earlier days singing with Destiny's Child.
Whether singing alongside her brother in the Fiery Furnaces or as frontwoman of her own band, Eleanor Friedberger has always cut a singular figure, askew to her surroundings.
Allmusic considered the song "By the Way" to combine "fiery Hollywood funk, gentle harmonies, a little bit of singing about girls, [and] a little bit of hanging out in the streets in the summertime".
Singing both verses of her fourth-act cabaletta with fiery accuracy — a challenge even for more experienced singers — Ms. Yu conveyed a startling intimacy in the huge Met, as if you were peering into Leonora's fevered thoughts.
