Word: roles
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...repertoire of classic, bel canto and romantic bass roles, Ramey, 45, is without peer. He is a seductive Don Giovanni and a boisterous Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni, a poignant Don Quixote in Massenet's Don Quichotte and a terrifying barbarian chief in Verdi's Attila. This month he is in Italy for appearances at La Scala in his favorite role, the sexy Figaro in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro...
...over," he says. "But I am always looking for the unusual or the rarely performed works." The Paris Robert le Diable, the saga of a man who discovers he is a devil's son, was one such project. Another is Anton Rubinstein's obscure The Demon, whose title role was sung by the great Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin; Ramey hopes to perform the part someday...
Perhaps by now there is a consensus that Gary Hart brought himself down by his willful behavior. But at the outset of the scandal, a large part of the public was ready to blame the press for invading his privacy, and many still do. Questions about the role the press played continue to echo among journalists...
Another witness who can expect an uncomfortable turn in the spotlight this week is Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, whose role in directing American assistance to the contras was spelled out by Lewis Tambs, U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica from July 1985 to January 1987. Tambs repeated what he had previously told the Tower commission: North had asked him to open a southern front against Nicaragua's Sandinistas. The orders came from a three- man "restricted interagency group," chaired by Abrams, that included North and Alan Fiers, chief of the CIA's Central American task force...
Only 4% of all AIDS cases are classified as instances of heterosexual transmission. Nearly half of those cases actually have no identified risks of infection, but the victims were born in countries where heterosexual transmission is believed to play a major role. The CDC lists an additional 3% of AIDS cases as "undetermined" in origin. Most of these victims were people who died before being thoroughly interviewed. Says the researcher who investigates this category: "We still get a flavor that they are engaging in high-risk behavior...