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from Loré Lixenberg's performance of John Cage's Aria
as part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Cage Weekend (Jan 2004)
Loré Lixenberg
brought the house down on Saturday night with Aria: Cage's
wittiest and most virtuosic multi-lingual vocal work, scored
for amplified voice and whatever else might come in useful.
Here it was a television, a vacuum cleaner, a camera, a packet
of crisps and the sassiest, funniest and riskiest stage presence
around. Ecco la diva! She should have been on the telly.
Anna Picard, The Independent
Lore Lixenberg's account of Aria for
solo voice was witty and brilliantly realised
Andrew Clements, The Guardian
The most outstanding performance was
given by the soprano Loré Lixenberg in Cage's Aria.
Lixenberg is not just a good singer, she is a deeply theatrical
performer, who constantly transgressed the boundaries of musical
performance, inspired by Cage, with ease and astonishing results.
It brought back the excitement of the convention breaking
inventiveness of Cage. Lixenberg has energy, wit and highly
accomplished vocal abilities, which made her live performance
a rare event.
Jean Martin, Music Web
The élan of Richard Benja-
field's student troops was only beaten by soprano Loré
Lixenberg's earlier solo delivery of Cage's music-theatre
masterpiece Aria, complete with TV, vacuum cleaner, bag of
crisps, and wobbles and shrieks in multiple styles.
Geoff Brown, The Times
Reviews of Loré Lixenberg's
performance in Jerry Springer - The Opera at the Edinburgh
Festival and the National Theatre, London
When Lore Lixenberg's soprano Baby
Jane makes her entrance, sitting on a swing and trilling the
show's melting ode to TV fame - "This is my Jerry Springer
moment. I don't want this moment to die", later to be
surreally reprised by a chorus line of quick-stepping Ku Klux
Klan members - you can almost hear the sound of cash tills
ringing, it's so theatrically perfect.
Daily Telegraph
Lore Lixenberg has never sounded better
as Baby Jane - effortlessly floating her high notes.
Metro
Loré Lixenberg (Peaches and
Baby Jane) in particular haunts the mind's ear and eye for
days afterwards.
British Theatre Guide
Loré Lixenberg is heart-rending
as Baby Jane
Metro Life
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