Word: sung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Olivia Valere and its cousins close at dawn, so you have time to drink at least seven different types of French champagne, introduce yourself to those Italian women in hot red dresses, dance under the very sophisticated lighting system to tunes sung live by a glittering Canadian Quebecoise and make friends with the owner...
...opera. The project was a gamble: A not-so-young Pavarotti left concerts in front of royalty and football fans to tackle the role of Otello, a notoriously difficult one, for the first time. What's more, Pavarotti brought his radiant tenor to a tragic role usually sung by deeper voices. This calculated risk almost turned to disaster when most of the principals and the conductor took ill before the performances that were to provide the material for the recording...
...despite such standards as The Man I Love and the title song. Radically reconceived in 1930, it then featured I've Got a Crush on You and still funny satirical ditties. Neither book is good enough to hold the stage these days, but both scores are meticulously sung in a new recording, invaluable to musical buffs. A high spot: tap numbers that capture the clatter and swish of each individual shoe...
...course of his drama, Beaumarchais (well sung by baritone Hakan Hagegard) decides to enter the action -- don't ask how -- to enable his beloved to escape prison and flee to Philadelphia. The scheme depends on selling her diamond necklace, which changes hands roughly as often as the Rhine gold. In the end Marie decides to accept her grisly historical fate, though she does confess that she has fallen in love with Beaumarchais...
...help reunite some 10 million families separated by the peninsula's hostilities from 1950 to 1953 and the long standoff that followed. These human bonds have long been sought by South Korean President Roh Tae Woo and opposed by the xenophobic regime of North Korea's Kim Il Sung. Pyongyang's about-face seems to reflect its concern over growing diplomatic isolation and sharp setbacks to its own economy...