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Vira Slywotzky sings Barber

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USA's Vira Slywotzky performs Do not utter a word from Barber's Vanessa, in concert four of the 2009 competition.

Vanessa has been awaiting the return of Anatol, her lover from twenty years ago. When Anatol is shown in, Vanessa cannot look at him, and tries to curb her strong emotions. She tells him to say nothing, to do nothing - as he may not wish to stay after hearing what she has to say. She confesses that she has been waiting for him all these years, sure that he would return to her. She has been so lonely, and she has tried to keep her beauty for his sake. But this is not her Anatol - he is the son of her lover and another woman.


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