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...Lohengrin was far from a one-man show. Marton, a dazzling Wagnerian soprano who is equally adept at setting off such potent Italian fireworks as Turandot, made a gloriously fearsome opponent as the evil sorceress. Her blazing fury as she confronts her weak husband Telramund (Baritone Franz-Ferdinand Nentwig) near the start of Act II won a spontaneous ovation that stopped the show. Providing a worthy foil for Marton's villainy was Tomowa-Sintow, a lyric soprano with a pure, unforced voice that improved after a somewhat shaky first act; her fateful exchange with Ortrud in the second...
...demonstration, but now as darkness fell, a few among the crowd became restless. Gathered in Makati, Metro Manila's high-rise business district, they began setting fire to automobile tires and piles of yellow confetti. With no police or soldiers in sight, predictions by the government of President Ferdinand Marcos that the daylong rally would culminate in violence seemed about to come true...
...been conceived, by the government at least, as an occasion for President Ferdinand Marcos to show his dedication to the democratic process. After nine years of martial law came to an end in 1981, a permanent national assembly was set up to replace the rubber-stamp legislature that had existed since 1978. In May, opposition candidates unexpectedly won 63 of the new assembly's 183 seats in elections that were relatively free of corruption. Last week the assembly held its first session, to choose officers and then hear the President's state of the nation address...
Somebody should remind President Ferdinand Marcos of this quote from Cato the Elder: "I would rather have men ask, after I am dead, why I have no monument than ask why I have...
Almost a month has passed since the Philippines held a nationwide election for its 200-seat National Assembly, and still there is no final count. The election commission, whose members are appointed by the government of President Ferdinand Marcos, has conceded that the opposition more than quadrupled its representation, from 14 to at least 62 seats, but has yet to give a final tally for eleven seats...