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As Giorgetta, Eva-Maria Westbroek, who created the title role of Anna Nicole in February, conveyed the woman's hopeless, raw desire with burnished vocal colours and blowsy physicality.
Dean Smith remained a lightweight Tristan, though: not in terms of decibels or technique (he had plenty of both), but in his narrow range of vocal colours.
Yet the enormous, almost mystical sound of the chorus, the intriguing vocal colours, wacky instrumentation and sheer vastness of the enterprise give it an odd cult appeal: truly epic.
While there are undoubtedly singers who bring to Winterreise more lyrical voices, or a wider selection of vocal colours, what Bostridge achieves with his idiosyncratic palette remains an extraordinary achievement.
It is a rare singer indeed who can muster the wide-ranging palette of vocal colours, the uninhibited physical presence, and the plasticity of facial expressions required to fashion the characterisation of Kovalov as a "sad clown" in the way that the director conceives the role.
In contrast, Taymor made only one radical alteration for the 2010 version – Prospero becoming Prospera, played by Helen Mirren – otherwise offering a classically well-spoken and artily filmed account of the play which showcases Mirren's vocal colours and Taymor's visual panache and places it above the director's other Shakespeare-based works, Titus (1999) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014).
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