Word: tenore
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...music, as terse in style as the libretto, is sardonic too. Sample: the young guitar-playing tenor of the piece (David Lloyd) manages to parody the Walthers and Rodolfos of romantic German and Italian opera without sounding exactly like either...
...tenor of his speech gradually changed from denunciation of the Catholic officials who had taken his pulpit away from him to a bitter dissertation on Jews and the Jewish faith. "For all my troubles, I've been calied every name that a Jew or a heretic could think of," he began...
...York City Opera atoned for its delay with a brilliant production. With fine dramatic performances by Soprano Patricia (The Consul) Neway and Tenor Robert (Tales of Hoffmann) Rounseville, The Dybbuk was well worth the 18-year wait...
Television Opera (Tues. 11 p.m., NBC) brings back NBC's talented Peter Herman Adler & staff for eight once-a-month productions of opera in English. The opener: Leoncavallo's Pagliaci. In spite of the singing of Soprano Elaine Malbin (Nedda) and the acting of Tenor Joseph Mordino (Canio), Pagliaci nearly fell flat for want of action and poor lighting. Even so, Director Adler proved his point that television deserves opera. Next in the series: Tchaikovsky's Pique Dame; GianCarlo Menotti's untitled opera, specially commissioned...
Until a Russian-born tenor named Maxim Karolik came along, the first half of the 19th Century was rated a mediocre period in U.S. art. American painting at that time showed little of the imagination and enterprise that marked the nation's westward expansion; most artists contented themselves with rusty, romantic sunsets and tight, bright genre scenes. The dreamy landscapes of the Hudson River School and Albert Bierstadt's Wagnerian-mood pictures of the Rocky Mountains were considered the best...