Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made Rouben Ter-Arutunian gowns, it is impossible to imagine Battle's ever taking a letter or raising a ruler again. She is an ethereal Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, a sparkling Zerbinetta in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and a beguiling Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which she will sing at the Metropolitan Opera later this month in a new production by French Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle...
...ready laugh, which tells worlds about her. She can laugh in the face of one complicated situation after another," she notes. But more significant clues are to be found in the music. "Even the music laughs," she says. "When she sings, 'Ding, ding,' in her duet with Figaro, the orchestra goes, 'diddle, diddle, diddle dum,' which it doesn't do when Figaro sings the same phrase. To me that's the orchestra laughing...
...blaming Hernu, a close friend and associate of Mitterrand's, Fabius was attempting to distance both himself and the President from what French newspapers were calling the "Underwatergate affair." But after repeated denials of official involvement, Fabius' reversal provoked widespread skepticism. A Sofres-Le Figaro poll taken just before the Premier's midweek TV appearance indicated 52% of the French people believe that Mitterrand and Fabius knew beforehand about the plan to blow up the Rainbow Warrior. Fully 78% condemned the decision to sabotage the ship...
DIED. George London, 64, commanding bass-baritone with a rich, dark-hued voice and the dramatic presence to convey the menace of Scarpia in La Tosca, the majesty of Wotan in The Ring and the elegance of Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro; after a long illness; in Armonk, N.Y. He found success quickly, with critically praised debuts at Europe's leading opera houses and New York City's Metropolitan. In 1960 he became the first American to sing Boris Godunov at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. In 1967 a paralyzed vocal cord cut short his career; he turned...
...upward surge of the superdollar was news around the globe. THE DOLLAR IS DEFYING ALL LAWS OF GRAVITY exclaimed Madrid's financial daily Cinco Dias. Newspapers across France's wide political spectrum were equally excited. Read the front page of Paris' conservative Le Figaro: OVER 10 FRANCS, THE DOLLAR HAS GONE THROUGH THE CEILING. One edition of the Socialist tabloid Le Matin included a replica of a $1 bill. By buying a copy for the newsstand price of 4 francs, the newspaper proclaimed, readers could get a "dollar" at a 60% discount...