Word: verdis
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...Sibelius was the only major composer to live longer (91). Schütz and Verdi died at 87, Telemann and Saint-Saëns at 86, and Vaughan Williams and Richard Strauss...
...second midfield of Verdi DiSesa, Bob Green, and Bucky Hayes is almost on a par with the first line. Behind them is the group of Leif Rosenberger, Ted Campbell, and John Powers, while the fourth midfield is Line Caplan, Dave Scanlon, and Dave Crawford...
...There are several varsity athletes playing rugby in the off-season. Verdi Disesa and Bucky Hayes played in the Fall and are regulars on the Lacrosse team. Spencer Driescharf, a starting guard in football, is playing this Spring...
Manhattan's Lincoln Center. On Tuesday at the Metropolitan Opera, Domingo portrayed King Gustav III of Sweden who tries to woo Montserrat Caballe away from her husband in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. On Thursday, across the plaza at the New York City Opera, where Domingo broke into the big time four years ago, he played the Earl of Essex to Beverly Sills' Queen Elizabeth in a splendid new production of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux. Like any operatic tenor, Domingo does a lot of theatrical dying. "When you are dying," he says with a wink...
...enjoy-or merely endure-Italian opera, especially Verdi, a word-for-word acquaintance with the libretto is not essential. Most listeners will be able to navigate the critical junctures of the average plot by developing a familiarity with a handful of catch phrases. Such verbal adornments keep the melodrama moving and can be used to tell almost any story. As in the following dialogue -drawn entirely from Verdi's Ernani -which took place between an opera-loving wife and a bored husband on opening night at the Met. SCENE...