Word: tenoritis
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Here is the effortless technique of Melba, formidable in the mad scene from a 1901 Lucia di Lammermoor. Here is the Italian tenor Emilio de Marchi, the first Cavaradossi, ringing the rafters with a triumphant Vittoria! in a 1903 Tosca. Here too is the white-hot French soprano Emma Calvé, a peerless Carmen; the Polish soprano Marcella Sembrich, who negotiates the Queen of the Night's treacherous coloratura con molto brio in a 1902 Magic Flute; and the soaring American soprano Nordica (née Norton), who must have been one of the most glorious Brünnhildes in history. And here...
...next four years, students would revisit that day. Sept. 11 changed the tenor of life at military academies and left students in New York City and Washington, D.C. feeling more vulnerable. But at Harvard, the effects have been more subtle and cerebral...
...Nabokov’s professional racing career came to a halt after a chance incident in Italy, when he asked a tenor and his wife if he could keep his car in their yard the night before a race at a nearby track. Come morning, the couple told him that he could take back his car—but only if he would abandon racing to devote himself entirely to opera...
...Even more important, the compromise proves that rumors of the death of the political center have been greatly exaggerated; centrists have sent a clear message to Bush pushing for the nomination of less extremist judges. Hopefully, the political center can continue to exert influence over the Senate, changing the tenor and motivation behind the judicial nomination process...
...what a voice it is. It’s a tenor of sorts, less sweet than early Neil Young, but equally capable of expressing the whole spectrum of emotion. Molina has a boundless reservoir of feeling which he taps into on each of his songs...