Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Actor Stacy Keach, 39. "I don't have any trouble on planes, but I can't go near edges." No wonder Reach's preparations for the title role in the national touring company production of Barnum put him on edge. Not only would he have to sing onstage for the first time, he had to master the art of tightrope walking. "It took six weeks and a lot of intimidation," he admits. "I finally made it after a friend kept calling me chicken and walking away in disgust." Reach's schedule for the rest of this...
...want to dress like that! And most important: it's very sexy." Adds Lynn Manulis, co-owner of the carriage-trade Martha stores in Manhattan and Florida: "He's like Pavarotti. A lot of people don't understand anything about music, but when they hear him sing they just know he's great." And he meets an acid test of the classic designers: his clothes never go out of style. Chanel suits have become collectibles. So, now, have Armanis...
...with coloratura, she swears vengeance. Around her a chorus of barbarians praises Attila's conquests. The scene is an early example of the art of dramatic juxtaposition perfected at the end of the third act of Otello, with lago gloating over his fallen master as the Venetians outside sing the Moor's praises...
...encounters the man-historically, Pope Leo I-in the flesh, he hears the same words, set to the same melody, which Verdi has also used in that scene to raise the curtain on Attila's uneasy slumber. The act ends with a majestic chorus in which the Italians sing of their coming triumph while Attila prostrates himself in fear. Although the rest of the opera is largely conventional, these two episodes make Attila well worth reviving...
...inscrutable. That may be the wisdom in a musing early in her career by Italian Conductor Nicola Rescigno: "It is a deep mystery why a girl born into a musically unsophisticated family, and raised in an atmosphere devoid of operatic tradition, should have been blessed with the ability to sing the perfect recitative...