The effect of some fresh singers was less alchemical when I returned to Des McAnuff's spare, cool Met production of Gounod's "Faust" on Friday evening, two months after it opened.
It's a band that can slap out the same power-chord thrashing as any of the day's other 20 bands, but variety keeps it fresh: the singer, Serj Tankian, is a dervish, howling down political absurdities as well as just going crazy for crazy's sake.
But Mr. Abel turned these handicaps into virtues and led a cast of fresh young singers in a remarkably satisfying performance of Rameau's sensible 1754 revision rather than the 1737 original.
Other labels began to approach Swift, but most saw her only as a fresh-faced singer.
As the cover star of British Vogue's July 2018 issue, the fresh-faced singer looks a world away from her usual self, minus her signature cat eye makeup and trademark high ponytail.
The performances are smart and exciting, and Mr. Domingo's vocal maturity finds depths in the music that younger, fresh-voiced singers might miss.
Enter Piccola Lirica, which advertises itself as youth-friendly, meaning it hires fresh-faced singers and shrinks grand operas like "Tosca" from "Godfather" to "Pinocchio" length.
As a fresh-faced folk singer she was the American Idol of 1957, she joked.
In the last year, he's won Grammys, squired fresh-faced UK singer Ellie Goulding, collaborated with the Doors.
But with winter arriving, "the Métro is warm, and you can get a large audience," said Clara Marchina, 24, the fresh-faced lead singer.
The band featured R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills and their longtime touring guitarist (and former Young Fresh Fellow) Scott McCaughey, singer-guitarist and Dream Syndicate founder Steve Wynn and Boston Red Sox organist Josh Kantor.
