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...Ramón Tabar conducted with force and velocity, and the singers did their best with Mercadante’s hysterical vocal lines....
...His recent appearances in Tosca have shown how well his bright voice with its fast vibrato can step up to the mark and this disc of arias from the big Verdi operas is a fine preview of the future....
...But Ramón Arias of Transparency International in Panama said Mr Varela was “losing support and legitimacy by the day”....
...But Ramón Arias, head of the local chapter of Transparency International, says there is no room for complacency in a country where the supreme court’s chief justice was last year convicted of corruption....
...Ramón Ricardo Arias, a respected lawyer who runs the Panamanian chapter of Transparency International, said: “Panama has made an effort to adopt legislation to avoid illicit use of its financial sector....
...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....
...“The building is a symbol of Panama’s history,” says Ramon Arias, one of the owners, and the great-great grandson of the man who commissioned the building....
...The company is owned by Ramón Arias, a partner in one of Panama’s leading law firms, and KC Hardin, an American corporate lawyer-turned-real-estate-mogul....
...“Thanks to Martinelli, we are in the process of returning to our lost status as a banana republic,” says Ramón Ricardo Arias, a lawyer who heads Transparency International’s chapter in Panama....
...Where: Plaza Herrera, Casco ViejoWiFi: YesPlug sockets: YesOpen: 7am-11pmEspresso: $3.25Glass of good rum: $11.70Privacy Points: Library 5/5; Lobby bar 2/5 Panamanian businessman Ramón Arias first erected...
...It was while recovering in the Casco neighbourhood that he met Ramón Arias, a Panamanian lawyer whose family had lived in the area for generations....
...Ramón Vargas’s lightweight tenor found the heavyweight outbursts of Foresto something of a strain....
...Hans-Joachim Ketelsen was imposingly overbearing as her nouveau-riche father, but Ramón Vargas strangled on the nasty tessitura of the Italian tenor’s aria....
...It will be difficult to forget the way he phrased the quiet ascending cadence of his aria....
...Most superfluous effort: Dwayne Croft slurring the Count’s aria from Figaro....
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