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As Ibn-Hakia, the Moorish physician brought in by the king to cure Iolanta, Brandon Coleman revealed an exotic vocal coloring well suited to the foreign doctor’s mysticism. Coleman’s delivery of Ibn-Hakia’s aria — another high point of the opera — was gripping and well paced
Ibn-Hakia, sung by Brandon Coleman in a wonderfully resonant bass voice. He handled with clarity Tchaikovsky’s tricky modal tonalities, in the aria ‘Two Worlds’, in which the physician advises the king on how Iolanta can be cured.
As Ibn Hakia, the Moorish physician brought to cure Iolanta of her blindness, Brandon Coleman had a cloudy timbre, but confident and consistent throughout his range.
Brandon Coleman put his pleasing bass voice to good use as Angelotti, lucidly evoking the fugitive’s dread of capture and execution at Scarpia’s hand.