The performance was technically impeccable and musically overwhelming; richly deserving of the lengthy standing ovation.
Harris is probably a better singer than Mitchell, particularly in the upper range, but his performance, while technically strong, occasionally seems studied.
Hoffman's performance is technically splendid and very watchable, but I'm not sure he offers much insight into what lies beneath the mannerisms.
Their performance was technically precise, almost dry, but charged with emotion and drama – and ignoring both the intense heat building up in the theatre and the moths fluttering around the stage.
From the thin toasts with a whorl of rich chicken-liver pate licked with blackcurrant jam that act as curtain-raiser to the chocolate skulls finale, it's quite the performance: both technically assured and risk-taking.
Benicio Del Toro's performance is technically flawless: you can be sure when he crooks his arm to look at his watch, or squints at a comrade through a plume of pipe smoke, or peels an orange, that you are seeing the thing done exactly as Che would have done it.
Her performance was "technically dazzling yet deeply felt", he added.
Bond's performance is technically smashing, but the more he pushes to connect with the audience, the more his mien resembles that of a trapped animal.
