Gest realized performance would be in Russia and Sumner not familiar with that tongue.
In the evening's most fully realized performance, Ms. Mazzie and Ms. Skinner joined voices for a thrilling rendition of "Summer," a glorious sunburst of vocal fanfares.
With a more fully realized performance in the central role, it might be easier to overlook the lapses into melodrama, but, unfortunately, Ms. Erbe's performance leaves a void where the play's anxious, fluttering heart should be.
A major new addition to New York's operatic ecosphere — if its first season is any indication — Opera Moderne offered a beautifully realized performance of Britten's delectable music while taking creditable gambles in a largely efficient staging.
This production, which will be seen at the Goodman Theater in Chicago and the Kirk Douglas Theater in Los Angeles this spring, benefits from fully realized performance in all the key roles, under the effective direction of Emily Mann.
With a roster of 41 choristers and 27 orchestra players, Mr. Tritle set the tone for this reverent, vibrantly realized performance of Bach's daunting score in the first Kyrie chorus.
Ms. Collette, who gives the evening's most fully realized performance, has the central role of Queenie, the plantinum-blond man trap and vaudeville dancer who lives with the violence-prone Burrs (Mr. Patinkin), a comedian.
Apart from a wonderful, realized performance by Sullivan, as a woman rendered insane by pain, and a couple of gruesomely absurd and funny moments between the priest and his zealous lover, Susannah Megann Byrne, Howard Barkerr's tragic comedy from 1993, directed by Richard Romagnoli, adds nothing original or thought-provoking to the antiwar canon.
John Cobb — who appears briefly in the middle section, lip-synching the role of an elderly female speech therapist during a videotaped interview — gives a touching, fully realized performance in the final section as Jackson, a detective trying to trace the killer of a BBC announcer.
This gap between theoretical and realized performance has the potential for process control.
