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'YOU are old, Michael Adams,' young Kramnik said, 'and your play is exceedingly passive. Those 'afterthoughts' of the world of politics and international affairs formed the core of his experience. It's a black farce again, an amazing tragi-comic juggling act: Norrington, like Mozart, keeps his tempi imperative, but never breathless; orchestrally he has rediscovered the capricious and poetic alliance between instrumental and vocal lines, and the casting of lighter, fresher voices is very much in scale with the instrumental timbres.Andreas Schmidt's mellifluous, baritonal Don is well- pitted against the coarser, weathered tones of Gregory Yurisich's Leporello; Lynne Dawson's Elvira catches enough of the febrility and all of the coloratura in 'Mi tradi', Amanda Halgrimson's Anna has the vocal reach, flexibility, and temperament (a discovery, this), while John Mark Ainsley's Ottavio is an eloquent respecter of line and embellishment. 'I just want to play football, Claire,' Darren says fiercely to his girlfriend 'To win. Labib Kamhawi, whose family come originally from Nablus on the West Bank, and who had sat on the royal commission to draw up the national charter, berated the 'undeclared policy of discrimination in all respects.

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