Sentence examples for vocal authority from inspiring English sources

Mikhail Petrenko brings to Gremin the vocal authority of a genuine Russian bass.

A good singer, he simply lacks the dark tone and the vocal authority to make anything of the character.

By the 1980s, when her cabaret career was going full steam, Ms. Whiting had developed a trumpetlike vocal authority that matched her gregarious, emphatic stage personality.

In print, shorn of his vocal authority and the accompaniment's rhythmic kind, the lyrics to even his greatest songs look inane.

It's a dazzling reinvention of tradition, though Jon Boden, while a natural showman, often struggles to impose his vocal authority on the juggernaut he helped create.

Of course, that meant a lack of vocal authority in many of the arias, though certainly not in the central roles.

Günther Groissböck brings vocal resonance and authority to the Landgrave.

Mr. Rumsfeld has been vocal in seeking authority for the Pentagon to negotiate not with numerous union locals, but at the national level, and he cites lengthy talks over punishment for civilian employees guilty of fraud.

It was wonderful to hear the baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky (currently appearing in the Met's new production of Verdi's "Ballo in Maschera") and the mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina bringing their vocal and stylistic authority to a duet from "The Tsar's Bride," Rimsky-Korsakov's seldom-heard opera (in America, anyway).

There were lots of good moments, but they didn't add up to a climax in, say, the pivotal council chamber scene, where the vocal weight and authority Mr. Hampson manifested beautifully at other points in the evening seemed stifled under the sheer effort of trying to convey them.

Wordier than many of Sexwitch's offerings, it sees Khan's soaring vocal combine both authority and abandon – this is a bride not keen on her marital status – amped up by Toy's raw psych-rock remix, a hairier take on the more mellifluous original.