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David Daniels. "Handel: Oratorio Arias".
[] Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Nelson. English texts. Virgin Classics CDC 72435 4549724
Countertenor David Daniels offers a new collection of arias from Handel's English oratorios, including selections from Belshazzar, Semele, Theodora, Saul and Jephtha, plus "He was despised" from Messiah. Daniels brings to bear his customary velvet tone, nuanced musicianship and impeccable taste, and he receives commensurately elegant accompaniment from conductor John Nelson and the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. Often, however, Daniels's refined sound production is undercut by less than complete involvement in Handel's frequently dramatic musical characterizations. All of Daniels's dynamic sensitivity, stylistic authority, control over his vibrato and dazzling coloratura somehow leave him just short of wringing the full emotional impact out of these pieces. Sometimes it's not even obvious he's singing in English --although he ...
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- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Phillips, Larry November 1, 2003 700+ words
DAVID DANIELS occupies a rarefied category of classical...was at Tanglewood that I met with David Daniels on the morning after his debut performance...develop the voice that you have? David Daniels: I developed it by just singing constantly...
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- Newspaper article from: Windy City Times Davis, Andrew March 18, 2009 700+ words
OPERA World-famous out countertenor David Daniels is known for his superlative artistry, magnetic stage...Davis is the music director of Lyric Opera of Chicago.] David Daniels: [Laughs] No, I didn't, but it is funny, isn...
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- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) CARMAN, JOSEPH May 8, 2001 700+ words
CLASSICAL Countertenor opera star David Daniels talks about how he learned to stop worrying and love his...entity with which she constantly reckoned. For opera star David Daniels, it was what he called "the other voice" that would eventually...
- THE THREE COUNTERTENORS.(David Daniels, Bejun Mehta and David Walker)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Gurewitsch, Matthew March 1, 2001 700+ words
...Tolomeo and Nireno are played by grown men singing in the range of a (female) mezzo-soprano, as the composer intended. David Daniels, suave and subtle, his timbre well suited to melancholy meditation, is the L.A. Caesar, with the firebrand Bejun Mehta...
- Soaring success: out opera star David Daniels gives the first Carnegie Hall...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Dukowitz, Gretchen November 26, 2002 700+ words
It wasn't practice that got opera star David Daniels to Carnegie Hall, at least not the first time. "In 1986, my partner, John, and I were in school at the Cincinnati Conservatory...
- HIS SECRET VOICE.(countertenor David Daniels)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country HERRERA, PHILIP March 1, 2001 700+ words
"In my age group, none of us went to school to be a countertenor," says DAVID DANIELS, thirty-four, the burly, bearded, hoop-shooting son of two voice teachers. "I was finished with school, struggling to...
- A Midsummer Night's Dream; Left to right: David Daniels (Oberon), Ofelia Sala...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Johnson, Victoria Stapells June 22, 2005 700+ words
...Sala (Titania). Peter Rose (Bottom) excelled both vocally and theatrically. Unexpectedly, the voice of countertenor David Daniels (Oberon) was too gentle and somewhat lost; he did not come across well as the ominous Fairy King. The fairies' placid...
- His voice is high and mighty--and mighty high.(operatic countertenor David...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Shute, Nancy November 25, 2002 700+ words
David Daniels is a football fanatic, a scruffy-bearded guy who loves screaming his lungs out at Washington Redskins games. But he won't...
