The vicar stood at the altar, white-haired and bespectacled, and, above, the choir sang in confident voices.
Gone was the swimmer's strong, confident, singing, counting athletic self.
Ms. Harris, for the record, has nothing like Mr. McCarthy's confident singing voice.
Although she had gone to finishing school in Paris and had a surprising good and confident singing voice she was pathologically shy all her life.
Topping the cast, the mezzo-soprano Christine Abraham as Lazuli was the most vocally confident, singing with bright, clear sound and moments of grace.
At a recent rehearsal at the Rattlestick, Ms. Vega seemed confident singing into an old-fashioned boxy microphone, but was still finding her feet with the spoken sections and admitted that memorizing the script was the hardest part.
At different points, each went above and beyond their role, particularly Mr. Nance, who looked as if he were having conniptions, and was singing in a confident voice that was bigger than Mr. Brown's, which felt like the point: expertise and tradition are just one kind of instrument.
Zayn talks about how he feels much more confident singing his new, solo music and discusses the possibility of a future tour before Clara Amfo plays his record.
Maura Johnston of The Village Voice wrote that the fans who attended the show, "were able to watch her bask in their singing the supremely confident 'Irreplaceable' and 'Best Thing I Never Had' as fearlessly as they might at home".
Walking slowly and firmly and singing wordless but confident-sounding phrases, Theo Bleckmann exuded authority as a doctor examining Ms. Monk.
