Hints and tips:
...Insung Sim and Andrés Presno, as Raimondo and Arturo, hold their own. Giacomo Sagripanti conducts with verve....
...The singers, wearing black contemporary garb, with white for Fiora, move on a shadowy, mainly bare stage....
...There were further strong contributions from Valentina Pluzhnikova (Alisa) and Leonardo Cortellazzi (Arturo). La Scala’s irrepressible chorus gave stirring interjections....
...They were keen patrons of the arts with the multilingual Sassoon inviting artists, writers and musicians into their circle including John Singer Sargent, Arturo Toscanini and Charlie Chaplin....
...There, 35 years ago, I heard a wonderful recital by the late Lucia Popp, one of my favourite singers....
...The 15 years-of-litigation event that Osorio referred to involves Argentina and its high-profile stand-off with Paul Singer's hedge fund, Elliott Management....
...Michieletto imagines Falstaff as a retired singer — a guest of the Casa dreaming of former glories....
...Yet much of what we ordinarily hear today in La fanciulla del West is the handiwork of conductor Arturo Toscanini, who beefed up the music to fill New York’s vast Metropolitan Opera House, where it premiered...
...Two world-class singers bouncing up and down in time to the music, faking orgasm while singing, is an absurd sight....
...If Wysocka’s realist approach wore thin, the lead singers’ musical characterisations redeemed the evening....
...The holdout creditors in the case of Argentina are comprised mostly of hedge funds, led by Paul Singer, the billionaire investor....
...When his agent Arturo Canales and I drove into the office car park earlier, a car more or less attacked us from behind, hooting. We dismissed the incident as yobbery....
...Its producer, Marco Arturo Marelli, wants us to see La fanciulla del West as a gritty modern drama, so out go the traditional saloon bar and log cabin, and in come a trailer park café and ugly piles of shipping...
...The Libertad has been held in the port of Tema since October 2 after an injunction by NML Capital, a subsidiary of the billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Capital Management, which is seeking to collect on...
...To dissuade the port authorities from boarding the 100 metre-long frigate – something Arturo Puricelli, Argentina’s defence minister, called “an act of hostility” and “a flagrant attack on our sovereignty...
...In 1910 Arturo Toscanini brought it to the Met, where the staggering cast boasted Olive Fremstad, Enrico Caruso and Louise Homer (later Margarete Matzenauer)....
...Sutherland’s well-known 1970s studio recording finds her in less scintillating form, but it has a massive plus in Pavarotti’s Arturo....
...Dwayne Jones provides a colourful cameo as a foppish Arturo and Clive Bayley thunders as the preacher Raimondo....
...Russian soprano Anna Netrebko sings the role of Elvira; tenor José Bros takes the part of her true love, the Royalist Arturo....
...boxing champion; Hercules, an aspiring boxer; Luis Terranova, a gifted tango singer; Polka, a gardener; Olinda, a laundress; the photographer Leica; Ricardo Samos, who supervised the book-burning and would...
...Medieval singers performed in a wide-ranging declamatory style that today’s tightly categorised singers would find inconceivable, and some 16th-century tenors even sang in the bass register....
...Marco Arturo Marelli’s new production of Richard Strauss’s inward-looking 1942 opera is decorative from start to finish....
...The flamenco guitarists José Luis Negrete, Antonio Muñoz and Arturo Martínez, and singers Alfonso Cid and David Castellano were the musicians who sometimes played on their own when not providing accompaniment...
...As the voice of the Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa drifts around his tiny studio, Fernando Salas prepares to end his daily shift at Radio Horizonte 106.7FM....
...Earlier, we had thunderous hardcore jazz-rock from bass tyro Stanley Clark and efficient smooth-jazz from Bajan Arturo Tappins....
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