For the moment, though, the clarity of the argument isn't as important as its plangency.
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He sang with a plangency rivaling Mr. Hvorostovsky's own, and rendered the love songs beautifully.
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He was at his most captivating in the aria "Wenn der Freude Tränen Fliessen," which he endowed with expressive plangency.
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Individually, the voices belonged to wildly disparate worlds including heavy metal, punk, and the glassy plangency of Balkan folk singing.
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Robert Pomakov added an acutely taut performance as Banquo, while the heated plangency of Matthew Plenk's Macduff established him as a tenor of considerable promise.
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Given that so many of Schubert's songs place the narrator in a natural setting, the pastoral plangency of an oboe, the watery coolness of a clarinet, or the birdlike freedom of a flute add a visual dimension.
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The stellar ensemble Alarm Will Sound, conducted by Alan Pierson, brought flow and nuanced color to the score, which contains extensive passages of Minimalist chugging and sighing, wilting gestures that echo the plangency of Mr. O Lionaird's traditional songs.
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But then Callas sought to capture in her singing not just beauty but a whole humanity, and within her system, the flaws feed the feeling, the sour plangency and the strident defiance becoming aspects of the canto. They were literally defects of her voice; she bent them into advantages of her singing." Giulini believes, "If melodrama is the ideal unity of the trilogy of words, music, and action, it is impossible to imagine an artist in whom these three elements were more together than Callas." He recalls that during Callas's performances of La traviata, "reality was onstage.
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D. Iacobescu's short career, overlapping with Symbolist mutations into the avant-garde, was still characterized by a focus on the mainstays of Symbolist aesthetics. In his obituary piece, Ion Vinea described the "dreamer's verse" contributed by Iacobescu as complementing "the fastidious and strange plangency" of Minulescu's work. Writing in 1929, the modernist critic and poet Benjamin Fondane assessed that Minulescu himself was not a Symbolist, but rather one who adopted the label as "the pretext of revolt", and that Iacobescu, Ștefan Petică, and ("to a lesser degree") Vinea or Adrian Maniu were the actual voices of Romania's Symbolist school.Benjamin Fondane, "Paysages", in Jean- Claude Polet, Patrimoine littéraire européen.
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In fourteen seasons at the Met, his roles included Radames, Dick Johnson opposite Renata Tebaldi's Minnie, Calaf in Turandot, another signature role, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Max in Der Freischütz, Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer, Cavaradossi in Tosca, and a much appreciated Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, which he sang in a new 1964 production, opposite Joan Sutherland. Lohengrin was once again his debut role at the London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1963. Gifted with a shining, spinto instrument, Kónya had an easy top register placing him the category known as "jugendlicher heldentenor" while affording him the full plangency of the Italian roles as well. Kónya left only a small number of commercial recordings, including a 1963 Die Fledermaus, under Oskar Danon; a 1965 Lohengrin, under Erich Leinsdorf, both for RCA Victor, an aria recital for Deutsche Grammophon (Il Trovatore, Meistersinger, Lohengrin, L'elisir d'amore, Martha, etc.), and a recital of songs by Wagner and Verdi, with Otto Guth at the piano (MCA).
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