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...José Coca Loza makes limited impact as Atlante/Melisso....
...Carrie-Ann Williams, making her ENO debut, rose impressively to Micaëla’s aria and Nmon Ford brought flair to his suave, smiling Escamillo....
...I am riding with Arias through the tobacco fields near El Bordo one evening, with the estancia’s gaucho José Maria Gallardo, when Arias tells me how his seven-year-old son recently received a 1,000-peso...
...His roles currently include Cavaradossi and Lieutenant Pinkerton in Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly respectively, and Don José in Bizet’s Carmen....
...Lexi and Alithia, Xavier and Jose, Annabell and Jackie — to name only a few. “How do you look at this girl and shoot her? Oh, my baby. How do you shoot my baby?”...
...A pop-up concert of the Miami Beach Classical Music Festival might add a beautiful aria to the mix, in the bright midday sunshine....
...When he finally subsides into her lap, the scene resembles — in José Quintero’s staging — a Renaissance Pietà....
...Her full-bodied, well-modulated mezzo soprano makes thrilling work of the “Card” aria, soaring from breathy introspection to a theatre-filling blast of sound, a vocal expression of Carmen’s fatal allure....
...Did she have any sympathy, she is asked, for her hapless lover José, who is jilted and betrayed by her capricious ways? She perfectly synchronises a weary eye-roll and a shrug. “Not really....
...Francesco Meli veers between gentle delicacy and searing intensity, sometimes from phrase to phrase, but his Don José has straightforward commitment....
...Bizet, Massenet, et al L’Opéra Jonas Kaufmann (Sony Classical) A pattern has emerged which sees Jonas Kaufmann release a disc of operatic arias each autumn in time for the seasonal market....
...Maria José Siri’s Cio-Cio-San was short on vocal power but crafted her text artfully....
...The show’s curator, Jose Carlos Diaz, says that the travel ban will not affect Moshiri coming but may prevent some of his family in Tehran from attending the opening....
...Developed by MGM Resorts, the company behind gigantic Las Vegas properties such as Aria, the Bellagio and the MGM Grand, National Harbor is technically in Maryland, eight miles to the south of downtown Washington...
...José Ramón Arias, an opposition legislator in Maracay, feels hunger is double-edged: “There is looting everyday here, but the capacity for mobilising people has diminished....
...Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti performed a concert the night before the 1990 World Cup final in Rome and brought the aria Nessun dorma to the ears of millions....
...When he and Plácido Domingo teamed up with José Carreras to form the “Three Tenors” act, “Nessun Dorma” became their staple, sung almost competitively in a mega-decibel finale, and on the triple-platinum...
...EU officials said that France would be represented by Ségolène Royal and Spain by José Manuel Soria....
...“The main problem for the PP is corruption — their image is tainted, and there really is no immediate cure for that,” says Manuel Arias Maldonado, a political scientist at the University of Málaga....
...José Mujica, Uruguay’s outgoing president, warned recently that Venezuela could face a coup led by dissatisfied government factions and the military if the situation continued....
...“Podemos is trying to put some distance between themselves and Syriza,” said Manuel Arias Maldonado, a political analyst at the University of Málaga....
...“They don’t know which way to go, so they are going nowhere,” says Mr Arias Maldonado....
...Spain’s nominee, Miguel Arias Cañete, is also mentioned as a potential trade commissioner....
...René Barbera, a charming Nemorino, makes a strong bid for inclusion in the current bumper crop of bel canto tenors with a disarmingly simple yet dynamically subtle account of his big aria....
...With votes counted in some 83 per cent of polling booths, José Domingo Arias, Mr Martinelli’s chosen candidate with the ruling Democratic Change party, had secured 32 per cent of the vote, while Juan Carlos...
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