"Trenchant, versatile" Opera News The level of the vocalism is high; unfortunately, only the lovely-voiced Russian–American soprano Yulia van Doren and trenchant, versatile Kazakh new-music tenor Timur Bekbosunov (playing non-Russian characters) prove comfortable with and convincing in the phonetics — a key factor, surely, in rendering Shostakovich’s stage works authentically.
The level of the vocalism is high; unfortunately, only the lovely-voiced Russian–American soprano Yulia van Doren and trenchant, versatile Kazakh new-music tenor Timur Bekbosunov (playing non-Russian characters) prove comfortable with and convincing in the phonetics — a key factor, surely, in rendering Shostakovich’s stage works authentically.