Word: bassos
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...insolent libertine whose singing suggests an appropriate mocking tone whether in love or rage. The Don's servant, Leporello, is usually caricatured as an inoffensive jester. As played by Daniel Windham, easily the finest actor of the cast, he became a figure of great sensitivity and dignity. Windham's basso was round and distinct, his stage movements expressive and natural...
...Excuse. Callas' teaching also takes in the more mundane details of performing. She often circles a singer, correcting posture and bearing. "You have a wonderful, wonderful figure," she told blushing Basso John Seabury last week. "Give it to the public." As for the semaphore signals that many youngsters-and not a few veterans -mistake for dramatic gestures, she admonishes: "Don't move your hands so much. A movement must have meaning; otherwise, please just stand still. You can stand still and you can act, as long as the stillness has an intensity, an aliveness...
...trifle overcome by the power of the orchestra, but with such unimportant texts the loss was negligible. The woodwind trio preceding the soprano entrance was beautifully played, as were the string harmonics in accompaniment. No contrast could have been stronger than that of the soprano's aria to the basso's. All three singers sounded best in their first trio: the combined volumes and timbres fitted perfectly with the orchestra. The concert had opened with Glinka's Kamarinskaya, a pleasant diversion which showed off the Orchestra's abilities admirably. The central section of the piece sounds very much like Beethoven...
...case anybody still had not guessed that the South Vietnamese were coming, helicopters loaded with airborne commando teams clattered noisily into points north of Chup, and American B-52s made basso-profundo bombing runs...
...Gill, who has a basso profundo voice well suited to the Italian comic opera, will sing the role of Basilio, the pudgy priest who is chaplain in the court of Count Almaviva. The plot of Barber is based on a play of Beaumarchais, and is related to the plot of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro...