Narrated in the highly idiomatic voice of Vernon Gregory Little, a fifteen-year-old Texas boy whose rotten luck it is to find himself a "skate-goat" in the aftermath of a Columbine-type massacre of sixteen high-school students committed by his best friend, "Vernon God Little" is raucous and brooding, coarse and lyric, corrosive and sentimental in about equal measure.
Celso Albelo, in his Met debut as Leicester, possesses a sweet and idiomatic voice, but no singer is served well next to two powerhouse divas hurling insults at each other.
His writing is so idiomatic, always voicing the instruments in a way that exploits their character and makes the player feel good.
That Petrucci published many of them without text is strong evidence of this; additionally, some of the pieces (for example, the fanfare-like Vive le roy) contain writing more idiomatic for instruments than voices.
Heggie's strength is the naturalness of his vocal writing; singers who otherwise balk at new opera delight in his idiomatic feeling for the voice.
Any small amount his voice lacked in idiomatic Frenchness or depth of tone, he more than made up for in detailed expression, dark vowels and long phrasing.
Mr. Guest has improved immeasurably in channeling Cash's midnight-hued voice, and his cool, idiomatic performances of Cash's songs received the strongest responses at the performance I saw.
These are idiomatic renderings cleanly rearranged by Ms. Souza for voice and guitar without changing the essence of the originals.
But the solo singing was not sufficiently idiomatic; the performers were either reluctant or unable to push their voices to the edge of cracking, a technique that gives Arabic vocal music its impassioned character.
Ms. Stemme goes on to chart the development of Minnie's character into a mature woman convincingly, and her voice — rich and true — sounds every bit as idiomatic in Puccini's music as it does in Wagner's.
