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More than 3,000 fans crammed into the Garage on Dunster Street yesterday to meet Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man and singer Redman at Newbury Comics...
Rojas is more than up to the task vocally--his voice is full-bodied and intense, if at times in a middle vocal range that makes it hard to project--but acting-wise, Rojas has fallen into the the trap of the magnificent singer who is plauged with an inability to act convincingly. He did seem to open up through the course of the opera, but his slightly grotesque nuzzling of the deathbed-ridden Violetta seemed contrived and ingenuine...
...true "hidden treasure," so to speak, of the evening--and a powerful singer who had no trouble at all acting--was baritone Vasquez, singing the difficult role of Girogio Germont (a man of high character who realizes he is not as morally superior as he thinks). Debonaire and upright, Vasquez had just the right amount of vocal and dramatic tenderness to keep the role of the pushy father from being a flat-out S.O.B. This is to be attributed no doubt to Vasquez's robust, no-nonsense singing style, which was intense and virtuosic without coming across as being overtly...
...Hoyes' essay, originally published in Diversity & Distinction, she reflects on the complications race may bring to her dream of becoming a professional opera singer...
HOSPITALIZED. RICK JAMES, 50, funk master; from a stroke; in Los Angeles. After popping a blood vessel in his neck during a performance, the "Super Freak" singer felt numb on his right side. Doctors expect a full recovery from the ailment, brought on, said James' spokesman, by "rock-'n'-roll neck--the rhythmic whiplash motion of the head and neck...