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{ text: 'Despite the abundance of younger star countertenors these days, none of them yet match Chance\'s intelligent delivery and supreme ability to get inside the English language.', source: 'The Guardian'},
{ text: 'Michael Chance, his counter-tenor coppery gold as the Voice of Apollo.', source: 'The Times, on DEATH IN VENICE'},
{ text: 'Michael Chance is a seasoned exponent of what is still the best counter-tenor since Handel\'s time, and every word, every malicious intention is crystal clear.', source: 'The Guardian'},
{ text: 'Chance has scaled the vocal heights with the cream of early-music artists, and the reasons were clear.... He is a musician of impeccable taste and expressive vibrancy.', source: 'Cleveland Plain Dealer'},
{ text: 'Michael Chance plays a stealthy Oberon who sings the words with an eloquence fitting for some of the finest poetry in the English language.', source: 'Financial Times, on A MIDSUMMER NIGHT\'S DREAM'},
{ text: 'How Chance\'s vocal expressiveness combines to give an impression of both intimacy and ethereal \"distance\" isn\'t easily explained.', source: 'The Independent'},
{ text: 'Chance was flying again on gilded wings over the alto arias.', source: 'The Times'},
{ text: 'Michael Chance, the phrasing in his voice is like perfectly still water, the words crystal clear, but causing not a moment\'s interruption to the surface of a depthless grief.', source: 'Caroline Gill, BBC Radio 3, on Vivaldi\'s STABAT MATER'}
];
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