Word: bel
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Sills gave a dazzling performance of technical brilliance and dramatic depth. Sills the singer tossed off the intricately ornamented bel canto lines with fire and easy grace; her voice is a light silvery instrument that takes cadenzas at breakneck speed and makes them sparkle. Sills the actress managed to breathe life into the flat character of Pamira--the daughter of the governor of Corinth who is torn between love for her country and love for the Turk King Maometto, her father's enemy. Sills's Pamira was emotionally focused--a earess of Maometto's arm conveyed sexual delight...
Siege will provide Sills with a generous supply of ornate bel canto pyrotechnics, notably Pamira's Act II "Si, ferite"(Yes, strike me). Says Sills: "This role is longer than Norma, I hope to tell you. I wish I were getting paid by the note." She gets paid by the performance, of course: $1,000 at the New York City...
...Anna Bolena; and more recently, Bellini's / Puritani. Vocal fireworks are Sills' glory. She has a light, lyric coloratura so clear and swift that it seems phosphorescent. Though she is the best Manon around, her trademark has become the revival of obscure operas of the 19th century bel canto...
...dominated Revolutionary Council moved last week to consolidate its powers. In the aftermath of the previous week's right-wing coup attempt, the all-military 24-member council appeared on television for the first time before being sworn in at ceremonies in the president's office at Belém Palace...
Intoxicating Malice. O'Hanlon's most controversial, heart-rending chap ter is one in which he blames the Ul ster savagery on the frustrations of Irish family life. In the Catholic Republic and the outposts in Londonderry and Bel fast, he argues, swarms of unwanted children bedevil hopeless parents: "Any body who lives in Ireland can testify to the absence of love in the average home." Fathers drink too much, then beat their wives and children with heavy, indiscriminate hands. Violence learned at the hearth is later re-enacted in the Irish Republican Army...