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STAFF: Whatsonstage on Michael Spyress performance as Faust in La damnation de Faust yesterday at Barbican Hall: The shining light in a drab evening was Michael Spyres, who single-handedly saved it from two-star ignominy. Having played Faust at the Vlaamse Opera last season the American tenor was able to sing without a score and interpret his character with complete security while all around him floundered. It was like a camera trick in a black-and-white movie where one lone character is picked out in glorious Technicolor. He had the voice for the part, too: even the cruel high notes rang true in ‘Merci, doux crépuscule!, and the cry of Seigneur! Seigneur! opened out gloriously. And in ‘Nature immense, Fausts extended aria in Part Four and an enormous challenge at the end of a long evening, Spyres still sounded refulgent. Mark Valencia
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:37:50 +0000

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