Mr. Brownlee, who has earned a strong reputation in the bel canto repertory, with his agile voice and lustrous top notes, sang potently in the selections, which he has recorded for release later this year.
Mr. Brownlee's agile, expressive voice has a sweet timbre and strong, lustrous top notes, which he will demonstrate on Sunday with the aria "Ah, mes amis" from Donizetti's "Fille du Régiment".
When she first made her name, in the nineteen-eighties, as a Mozart specialist, she was noted chiefly for her fluid phrasing and her lustrous tone.
Still, Mr. Bell played with lustrous tone, temperament and command.
The exceptions mostly came when he played his trumpet, projecting in a hard, lustrous tone.
A plate of roasted duck was lustrous and tender, with a tropical note of pineapple in the accompanying rice and a haunting note of anise in the Marsala-based sauce.
Monica Salmaso has a gorgeous, quintessentially Brazilian voice: quietly lustrous and sustained, suffusing each liquid note with languid secrets.
Ms. Netrebko sang an elegantly sad aria with lustrous warmth, aching vulnerability and floating high notes.
And that is what Dylan has done for us, in that alchemical combination of the notes he plays and the lustrous words he puts to them.
