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text_st[0] = '<p class="review_date">May 2009</p> <p><strong>Pinkerton</strong> in <i>Madama Butterfly</i> - "... a vocally reliable St&eacute;fan Louw making the most of the part of the unsavoury Pinkerton."</p> <p class="author">by Barry Smith</p>';

text_st[1] = '<p class="review_date">May 2009</p> <p><strong>Pinkerton</strong> in <i>Madama Butterfly</i> - "Pinkerton is sung by well-known tenor St&eacute;fan Louw, who invests the role with latent racism ... making him a thoroughly unlikeable character.  ... This is an affirmation of his skill with which he acquits himself of the role."<p class="author">by Norman McFarlane</p>';

text_st[2] = '<p class="review_date">December 2008</p> <p><strong>Radames</strong> in <i>Aida</i> - "The South African tenor, St&eacute;fan Louw does not disappoint.  His Radames is interesting, with a lot of nuances and pretty moments, of which the final note of Celeste Aida, attacked piano then supported diminuendo."<p class="author">by Jean-Marcel Humbert</p>';

text_st[3] = '<p class="review_date">December 2008</p> <p><strong>Radames</strong> in <i>Aida</i> - "St&eacute;fan Louw shone in the role of Radames, at the same time fierce and loving."<p class="author">by Laurence Le Diagon-Jacquin</p>';

text_st[4] = '<p class="review_date">February 2008</p> <p><strong>Radames</strong> in <i>Aida</i> - "At St&eacute;fan Louw&#39;s first utterance of Aida&#39;s name, goose bumps chase up my arms - Louw spoils the audience with his rich tenor voice."<p class="author">by Annette Bayne</p>';

text_st[5] = '<p class="review_date">February 2008</p> <p><strong>Radames</strong> in <i>Aida</i> - "St&eacute;fan Louw&#39;s tenor gleamed in ensembles.  His ringing upper register coped magisterially with the music of Radames."<p class="author">by Riek van Rensburg</p>';

text_st[6] = '<p class="review_date">November 2006</p> <p><strong>Tebaldo</strong> in <i>I Capuleti e i Montecchi</i> - "... His phrasing was poetic and the musical line gently spun. The intensity of his communication was illuminating, being sensitive to nuance and an uncanny feeling for phrase continuity."<p class="author">by Riek van Rensburg</p>';

text_st[7] = '<p class="review_date">November 2006</p> <p><strong>Tebaldo</strong> in <i>I Capuleti e i Montecchi</i> - "St&eacute;fan Louw, one of South Africa&#39;s best tenors, did a magnificent job of the role of Tebaldo ..."<p class="author">by Moira de Swardt</p>';

text_st[8] = '<p class="review_date">September 2005</p> <p><strong>Rodolfo</strong> in <i>La Boheme</i> - "... his voice should be declared a national treasure ..."<p class="author">by Christina Kennedy</p>';

text_st[9] = '<p class="review_date">September 2005</p> <p><strong>Rodolfo</strong> in <i>La Boheme</i> - "Lyric tenor St&eacute;fan Louw gave much pleasure with his robust reading of the part of Rodolfo, acting with &eacute;lan and really getting under the skin of one of opera&#39;s favourite tenor roles. His Che Gelida Manina was most impressive, souring up to the climatic Top C with ease."<p class="author">by Wouter de Wet</p>';

text_st[10] = '<p class="review_date">Mei 2009</p> <p><strong>Pinkerton</strong> in <i>Madama Butterfly</i> - "St&eacute;fan Louw as Pinkerton se sang het ook getref.  Hy en Echalaz se vertolking van die duet &#39; Vogliatemi bene &#39; het aan hartsnare gepluk; nooit oordrewe nie, met mooi musikale lyne."<p class="author">deur Wayne Muller</p>';

text_st[11] = '<p class="review_date">February 2008</p> <p><strong>Radames</strong> in <i>Aida</i> - "The role of Radames, sung by acclaimed tenor St&eacute;fan Louw, was vocally well cast."<p class="author">by J Brookes</p>';

text_st[12] = '<p class="review_date">February 2008</p> <p><strong>Radames</strong> in <i>Aida</i> - "Dale singles out St&eacute;fan Louw, who plays the role of Radames, as one of the great South African voices to emerge."<p class="author">by Vista Kalipa</p>';

text_st[13] = '<p class="review_date">March 2008</p> <p><strong>Radames</strong> in <i>Aida</i> - "He phrased Celeste Aida nicely, even producing a soft high B flat at the end.  His finest singing came in the lyrical tomb scene in act four."<p class="author">by Wouter de Wet</p>';

text_st[14] = '<p class="review_date">April 2003</p> <p><strong>Alfredo</strong> in <i>La Traviata</i> - "St&eacute;fan Louw  posses a fine voice and sure upper register."<p class="author">by Daniel Somerville</p>';

text_st[15] = '<p class="review_date">May 2006</p> <p><strong>Cavaradossi</strong> in <i>Tosca</i> - "St&eacute;fan Louw&#39;s Cavaradossi was perfectly judged and lucidly shaped, both in dramatic and histrionic terms.  His voice created the ideal lyric abandon, swathed in exquisite phrasing."<p class="author">by Riek van Rensburg</p>';

text_st[16] = '<p class="review_date">April 1999</p> <p><strong>Beppe</strong> in <i>I Pagliacci</i> - "St&eacute;fan Louw&#39;s effortless lyricism ...  He is one of the lucky few men whose voices have developed into the sphere of a &#39;natural&#39; tenor range"<p class="author">by Paul Boekkooi</p>';

text_st[17] = '<p class="review_date">Maart 2009</p> <p> - "Louw is die mees onderskatte tenoor in die land.  Vokaal hou die arias vir hom geen probleem nie, sy stem is vry en resonant, sy asemstut nou deel van sy tegniek, en sy verhoogmanier onbevange."<p class="author">deur Thys Odendaal</p>';

text_st[18] = '<p class="review_date">October 2010</p> <p> "Aria! Opera for Everyone - "South Africa’s top lyric tenor has a powerful, rich voice that easily fills the theatre."<p class="author">by Moira de Swardt</p>';

text_st[19] = '<p class="review_date">October 2010</p> <p> "Aria! Opera for Everyone - "Louw beskik oor &#39;n goed geprojekteerde liriese stem wat sekerlik aan dramatiese krag begin wen. Hy is &#39;n deksels goeie tenor"<p class="author">by Thys Odendaal</p>';

text_st[19] = '<p class="review_date"><i>April 2011</i></p> <p> "<strong>Aria!</strong><italic> Opera for Everyone</italic> - "Louw’s technical skill was evident throughout the concert, notably in the many high Cs produced with such ease in Donizetti’s Ah! Mes amis ... His technique was never blatantly flaunted but constantly remained at the service of musical meaning."<p class="author"><strong><italic>by Lestie Hughes </italic></strong></p>';

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