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...Verdi’s dark thriller was last aired inadequately in a static costume drama at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in 2009, purely a vehicle for Plácido Domingo’s first crack at the baritone role....
...The Catholic Archbishop of Panama Jose Domingo Ulloa has mediated. The turmoil has led to frustration in Panama’s business community....
...He has commissioned and installed eight large oil paintings by the artist Maria Kreyn representing Shakespeare plays....
...Maria Izabel de Jesus, a retired 72-year-old who lives in the east zone of São Paulo, says food has become unaffordable. “It's too much. You can't buy anything,” she says....
...Salome Jicia’s Donna Elvira provided glimpses of vulnerability, Marianne Croux’s Zerlina and Emanuele Cordaro’s Masetto were pleasingly rustic and Maria Grazia Schiavo’s Donna Anna and Juan Francisco Gatell...
...General Juan Domingo Perón, one of the most successful populists of the last century, once claimed that all Argentines are Peronists....
...Zeffirelli’s other productions included Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, which opened the new Metropolitan Opera in 1966, and Otello at La Scala in 1976, with Plácido Domingo and Carlos Kleiber....
...Maria Agresta’s Desdemona and Marco Vratogna’s Iago have the advantage of being native Italians, but she lacks beauty of sound and he is rough-hewn and dry of voice....
...Argentines — at least in the major cities — are generally not ready to sell at a loss and face little pressure from lenders to do so, says Domingo Speranza, who runs Newmark Grubb Bacre, an agency based...
...Marianne Crebassa is ferociously resolute as the scheming Irene, while Maria Grazia Schiavo has a disarmingly supple evenness of tone as the tragic Asteria....
...Maria Agresta sings Desdemona with a clear, bright, true Italian soprano....
...It is over,” says Julio Bárbaro, who was a congressman in the 1970s under the final government of Juan Domingo Perón, the movement’s legendary founder. “It is just a memory now,” he adds....
...Despite mounting esteem in her lifetime and latterly the prestige of working with John Murray, the most glamorous publisher in London, Austen earned far less than her contemporaries, Frances Burney, Maria...
...For skincare, I rely on María Muñoz at Clinique Française in Madrid – she also makes me laugh, which is a beauty treatment in itself....
...Excerpts from his 1966 opera Don Rodrigo take star tenor Plácido Domingo, recorded a few years back, into modernist territory. Gisèle Ben-Dor, a Ginastera champion, is the conductor....
...Maria Victoria Murillo, an Argentine political scientist at Columbia University in New York who specialises in labour relations, questions whether unions will strike in the short term....
...Valentino designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccolo chose her to close their Delphos-gown-inspired couture show last month: and no wonder — Verhoef embodies the same timeless grace....
...Maria Agresta and Francesco Meli, the Lucrezia and Jacopo, do not have the most individual voices, but they are genuine, 100 per cent Italian, sure of the style, and both knew to sing softly as well as with...
...Carreras and Domingo, two of the “Three Tenors”, sang it last time round. Now Jonas Kaufmann steps forward as the star tenor of his generation....
...You could not fail to admire the 72-year-old Plácido Domingo, delivering Siegmund’s “Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond” from Die Walküre with heroic panache, even if not quite with the burnished tone of...
...Even when, within living memory, Placido Domingo or Jon Vickers bestrode the stage, no one raised eyebrows when they “blacked up”....
...Santo Domingo’s son Alejandro continues to support the newspaper financially....
...More than half a century after she gave up the part, Maria Callas still tops the list....
...“She is an example to any entrepreneur,” says María Lucía Roa, the national head of Ashoka, the social innovation programme through which Escobar passed....
...She has collaborated with Plácido Domingo and directed the inaugural gala of the Spanish presidency of the European Union. The two met three years ago....
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