THE OPERA OF TIMUR

"[...] his assistant—whose bafflement was conveyed by Timur’s eerily high tenor—bloodily extracted one organ after another from the corpse and proclaimed it “normal.

"Young assistant who does the riotous cutting, Ambrose Strang, is sung by the riotously effective Timur...Southwell and Timur are L.A.’s two most distinctive singers"

Kazakh-American tenor Timur, a specialist in contemporary music, sang Strang, his brightly incandescent tenor providing an oddly effective counterweight to Peel’s viciously etched character.