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- Big voice at Buxton Festival: Jason with lean and hungry look
John Robert-Blunn, Manchester Evening News, July 1984
"I LOVE singing anything and everything," said Howard Haskin over tea and biscuits in a very English neo-classical hotel in Buxton… (More)
- Second Orphée Howard Haskin brings more character to the role
Franz Straatman, Trouw (Amsterdam), 24 January 1990
It was one week before the Nederlandse Opera was due to start rehearsals for Gluck's 'Orphée et Euridice' when Bruce Ford, the contracted tenor, cancelled. Opera managements, however, cannot just open a can of high tenors (with a knowledge of this infrequently sung French role besides) when this happens… (More)
- Twenty grams of foam for a perfect Lenin
Franz Straatman, Trouw (Amsterdam), 27 April 1992
"The director Pokrowski looked very surprised when I greeted him in Russian at our first meeting. That was his second surprise. You see, Pokrowski, the librettist and the composer had not actually anticipated that De Nederlandse Opera would contract a black American for a role meant to strongly resemble Lenin in their imagination."… (More)
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