Word: tenoritis
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...Since national elections tend to sway the undecided voters in a local election, the feeling in North Carolina is that Hunt and Helms are hostages to the political fortunes of Mondale and Reagan. They are thus both representative of and subject to the national forces that will decide the tenor of the next four years...
...open now on Saturday nights. Sports and sitcoms illuminate the color TV. Lizards skitter down the screens on the porch, and alligators slither down the canal just beyond. Now and again someone will have a go at the organ, and Father Jim will sing in his tenor, "No more will I go all around the world,/For I have found my world in you!" There are 630 members of Henry's Hideaway...
...City Opera this season, all the signs pointed to a disaster. The work was little known, and had been dismissed by earlier generations as inconsequential. The intended conductor, C. William Harwood, died unexpectedly last April at the age of 36, and the lead soprano withdrew. During the dress rehearsal, Tenor Barry McCauley objected to Conductor Allesandro Siciliani's tempos and stormed off, while Siciliani threatened to take the next plane back to Italy. Peace was restored, but two hours before the curtain, a can of drain cleaner exploded in the face of the orchestra's harpist; a hasty...
...Rondine, the company has revived Léo Delibes' fragile song of the subcontinent, Lakmé, and mounted an operatic staging of Stephen Sondheim's Grand Guignol Broadway masterpiece, Sweeney Todd; next month it presents Philip Glass's new opera Akhnaten. Splendid singing? Clarion-voiced Tenor Jerry Hadley shone as Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, and the company's impressive roster of young sopranos this season includes Kaaren Erickson, Elizabeth Hynes and Elizabeth Knighton...
...individual performances are nearly flawless. Mignes-Johnson combines a mesmerizing screen presence with a powerful voice. Both tenor Domingo and baritone Raimondi are also on the mark, although their acting is stiffer than Mignes-Johnson's. One only hopes that the soundtrack has been doctored as little as possible, because that would add a technological taint to what appears to be a wholly natural and soaring film...