Sentence examples for lustrous performance from inspiring English sources

The mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, who has made a calling card of the title role in recent years, portrays the haunted daughter of King Agamemnon affectingly — an intense, vulnerable and vocally lustrous performance.

Not exactly a lustrous performance when contrasted against the Standard & Poor's 298%.

But at numerous times on Friday, it appeared that this lustrous performance may have owed more to careful preparation in rehearsals to what was emanating from the podium that night.

Mr. Penderecki, whose days as an avant-gardist are long behind him, was represented by lustrous performances of his Serenade for String Orchestra (1997), Sinfonietta (1991) and "Chaconne in Memoria del Giovanni Paolo II" (2005), all thick-textured neo-Romantic scores that take advantage of the urgency and, in the chaconne, the meditative richness of massed strings.

In Jennifer Higdon's accessible but technically demanding Concerto for Orchestra the ensemble's brass players were occasionally at sea, and braying timbres or outright clams momentarily marred a lustrous, driven performance.

Robert King and the King's Consort give lustrous, immaculate performances throughout this series, which now stands at Volume Six.

I have admired Ms. Stemme since hearing her lustrous and intense performance as Wagner's Isolde at Bayreuth in 2006.

But this one is putting her through a promising regimen of scales and trills and, best of all, "knows someone who knows someone who knows Jimmy Levine!" She then sang a vocally lustrous and touching performance of "Mi chiamano Mimi" from "La Boheme".

So the Met brought in Ms. Garanca, best known for her vocally lustrous and agile performances of Rossini.

Happily, the composer was present to hear this lustrous and life-filled performance.

The most completely realized part of the whole performance was the lustrous solo Tiler Peck danced as Polyhymnia.