Some of the finest playing of the evening was achieved in Miss Vosgerchian's own Recitative and Aria, a pianistically inspired piece which revealed some Stravinsky influence and worked up to a ...

Matthews dramatised the Countess’s Act 3 recitative and aria from The Marriage of Figaro, Dove sono entirely with her voice, exploring the recitative with hesitant self-doubt, finding classic ...

It begins with a round of mimed action during which some observers usually expect the dancers to burst into recitative and aria at any moment. The white-clad sylph (Margrethe Schanne), her ...

Recitative was speech-like declamation with minimal accompaniment, usually from a harpsichord or fortepiano: it paved the way for the set-piece aria in which a character could ruminate ...