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Title: One star for the tenor
Review: This is the worst Regiment I have ever seen. It's a characature, a stupid cartoon with painted outdoor scenery and painted indoor furniture. Voices are good, the tenor (if you can stand to look at him) is wonderful. And Devia! She is terrible, a clown, my guess is (like his other comedies) Donizetti meant this to be amusing, fun, not an asinine farce. (How do you spell asinine, I don't have spell check.) Devia has good agile voice (so do lots of coloratura sopranos) but when she bothers to end an aria on a top note (which she rarely does) she slides (so do LOTS of coloratura sopranos - and I won't listen to them either). To be a good singer these days, you need lots of hype, PR, a cult, a good photographer and a following. What you don't need is a voice. To get a good coloratura today you need Sumi Jo or a time machine!
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