Word: tenore
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...such touchy issues as sanctions against the Soviet Union, most experts consider Kohl just as committed as Schmidt to detente and East-West trade. While quibbling about details, the Christian Democrats have generally supported Schmidt's decision to help finance the controversial Soviet gas pipeline. But the tenor of U.S.-West German relations may change. Schmidt, for example, annoyed Americans by failing to conceal his contempt for Presidents Carter and Reagan. "Kohl will be more accommodating toward the U.S.," says Walter Schutze of the Paris-based French Institute for International Relations. "It will not be a matter of substance...
Rochberg has done his best to flesh out the unpromising material. The opera, his first, is filled with striking set pieces: a lyrical duet for China (Tenor Neil Rosenshein) and his wife Annabella (Soprano Sunny Joy Langton); an ominous interview between China and his moneyed friend Orchis (Tenor Michael Fiacco), whose threatening nature is underlined by a snap-pizzicato line in the low strings; a good-natured, bibulous ensemble lauding the joys of wine. In his handling of the choruses, Rochberg is especially skillful; indeed the final chorus, extolling the virtue of confidence, recalls the Falstaffian spirit of Verdi...
...Rake-inspired by the famous series of Hogarth engravings-tells the story of Tom Rakewell (Tenor Gösta Winbergh), a naive but lustful country boy who falls under the spell of the Devil, Nick Shadow (Baritone Istvan Gati). Abandoning his sweetheart Anne Trulove (Soprano Cecilia Gasdia) for the fleshpots of London, Tom sinks ever deeper into degradation until he finally goes mad and is committed to Bedlam. In Russell's production, Tom sports a gold lame suit and a Sony Walkman. Baba the Turk, the bearded lady whom Tom marries, is a blind pop celebrity in a bright...
...that literary psychology diminishes its subject. The fact remains that Edel is incapable of being reductive, even when he tries. Stuff of Sleep and Dreams is continuously energetic and expansive. Its variety includes anecdotes, information and even Edel's eyewitness account of James Joyce leading a claque for Tenor John Sullivan at the Paris Opéra in 1929. One is simply carried along despite the assertions of theory. The methodology in the literary madness still leaves plenty to the imagination. -By R.Z. Sheppard
...college. Yet, as Charley proudly observes, the Prizzi family "runs this country just the same as the Senate does or General Motors or Alexander Haig, junior." The Mob is funnier. When the Prizzis give a testimonial banquet for one of their number, they hire the world's greatest tenor to sing one song: the number is an aria from Verdi's Les Vépres Siciliennes recounting the slaughter of the defenseless French by Sicilian patriots. The overcrowded hall is set afire by a rival gang, and 89 guests are parboiled. "Miraculously, the Congressmen and the judges came...