Hints and tips:
...“Faced with obstacles, I don’t brake, I accelerate.”...
...“I don’t think the Catholic Church will lend itself to another circus, when there’s a bishop and priests imprisoned.” The Nicaraguan bishops’ conference has remained silent on Álvarez’s arrest....
...Starry casts and production teams include Jonas Kaufmann, Rolando Villazón, Ildar Abdrazakov, Aida Garifullina and Philippe Jaroussky, many of them in house debuts....
...“To take back the country, seeing how it is right now, I don’t think she can take it back that quickly,” he said....
...I tried to disabuse them of the idea that it all goes back now to Obama 2.0.”...
...In Argentina he introduces Rolando Uría, who has observed how hummingbirds like to feed on the flowers of salvias....
...But the weakness in the plan is Rolando’s status....
...“I’ve travelled all over the world and Australia is, by and large, the best coffee market,” says Rolando Schirato, Vittoria’s managing director, who is spearheading the push. “It’s gone a bit crazy....
...Gartenfeld says: “I was amazed when I first moved here from New York to discover what a year-round city this is.”...
...But I will still vote for the government, if not, I fear I may lose my job.”...
...During the interval, as I talked into the camera, various members of the cast rushed past and I had the surreal experience of being photobombed by the eminent Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón, who waved his...
...“I don’t think they realise the importance of reconquering the hearts of Mexicans – or can see business opportunities,” he says....
...A bonus DVD showcases nine stage roles, including a sexually charged Traviata Brindisi with Rolando Villazón from 2005....
...“By having the opportunity to study, I know I can have a prosperous future, and I am thankful,” she says, rushing to the classroom....
...“I could not believe my eyes. I thought this is impossible,” says this person. “The pope in one corner and one of the world’s best-known bankers in the other.”...
...crawling on the floor, like Plácido Domingo in Otello, or to jump into the arms of your beau while still singing, like Natalie Dessay in La figlia del reggimento, or to sing while juggling apples, like Rolando...
...Rolando Villazón Werther (Deutsche Grammophon)...
...“I was three months pregnant, the [fallopian] tube had ruptured and I had quite severe internal bleeding, I’d lost approximately a litre of blood,” she says....
...Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers union, is right to call this an “irrational business formula.”...
...delivered dense chords and sharp lines, but the enchantment lay in an intriguing array of paired-down textures and exquisite details The set opened with prowling bass, sparse piano and delicate percussion – Rolando...
...Vocally, too: for the first time in more than 15 years of my experience, I heard Jacques on opening night sing several numbers in a gravelly baritone rather than his accustomed “castrato”....
...“The way it was handled, particularly the outcome, I find is disappointing,” he said after confirming the deaths....
...But the front steps of Munich’s Prinzregententheater were crowded with hopefuls on Monday when I arrived for Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman)....
...The Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón did a fine number on What Makes a Great Tenor? (BBC4 Saturday). Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will reply with What Makes a Great Soprano? (June 19)....
...“But I really only trust my own ears....
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