Though it can't be said that Mr. Langrée and his troops made the work sound entirely fresh, there were captivating passages, including the whole of the Menuetto, unusually laid back.
There are captivating animated images.
For all of Mr. Castorf's radicalism, he is a theatrical wizard, and there are captivating elements to this much-anticipated production.
Whether or not there are captivating democratic prospects out there, there does seem to be no shortage of those who think they would make the ideal running mate.
The music, by the young big-band leader Darcy James Argue and his eighteen-piece orchestra, Secret Society, is appropriately rousing, and there are captivating images by the visual artist Danijel Zezelj.
There are captivating moments, with undulant, nuanced orchestral writing; ferocious choral outbursts; and passages with a Wagnerian harmonic richness that anticipates Debussy.
As the music gains in intensity, there are captivating antiphonal effects, with ferocious outbursts passed back and forth among groupings of trombones and the organ erupting in a fit of cascading chords, holding its own against the din of brass.
There were captivating dancers like Stacey Spence, Marya Wethers, David Thomson — everywhere you looked someone was doing something fascinating, from tiny shifts in eye contact to fluid, quicksilver phrases.
While there, he was captivated by reports from Bosnia, and went off to join the Kosovo Liberation Army.
Like many other painters working there, he is captivated by the special quality of the light.
