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Word: dorma (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television broadcasts. The record turned into by far the best-selling classical album of all time (total sales: around 10 million, and still going strong); only a dozen or so albums of any description have sold more copies. The program's most popular aria, Puccini's Nessun dorma, became a fight song not only for the World Cup competition but also for record buyers everywhere, who used it as an anthem to get them onto the freeway in the morning or ready to confront the boss. All'alba vincero (At dawn I shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: They're Baaack! | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

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