Gifted with one of the most luscious and yet beautifully focused voices to be found among young singers, Ms. DeYoung offers a rich program of songs by Schumann, Duparc, Mahler and several American composers, including Barber and Ives.
Miss Mentzer has a neater, more focused voice than Miss Schuman.
The soprano Alyson Cambridge was sensational as Vi, her radiant smile and focused voice illuminating the club's darkest recesses.
Ms. Clark has a small but powerfully focused voice, and she wields it like a surgeon's scalpel, making her wry lyrics all the more pointed.
Deborah Voigt was the soloist in the vocal works, and in the Barber her big, powerful, cleanly focused voice was an immediate asset.
For years Ms. Swenson was admired as an exquisite coloratura soprano with a clear, perfectly focused voice and impressive technical agility, ideally suited to the bel canto repertory.
The stage-hungry dramatic ferocity is as startling as the technical bravura that makes his lean, intensely focused voice blaze like a hero's.
This study sought to test whether a brief stimulability trial of forward focused voice could produce sufficient change in acoustic analysis measures to provide visibly improved objective results and, thus, be a potentially useful mastery experience.
Though she did not command the opulent tones of the usual Wagnerian soprano, she had such a keenly focussed voice that she could penetrate the loudest orchestral or choral passage, while the dramatic tension of her performances was almost tangible.
In two of Sesto's passionate arias from Mozart's "Clemenza di Tito," the 26-year-old mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano had nuanced emotion and an even, steady, focused voice.
However, I distinctly remember the tense atmosphere and the intently serious and focused voice of my mother as she told me I would be staying with neighbours while she was gone.
