Word: voce
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...less for artfulness than for artlessness. He sang and acted with his peasant's gusto-"with the whole force of his body," one critic wrote, "as naturally as a gamecock fights." Vocal style usually went out the window when he saw a chance to prolong a honeyed mezza voce, a thundering high B-flat, a sob, a gulp or a tearful portamento...
...each) before the bell summoned them back for the second act of Barber of Seville. The setting was a knockout, bright and modern-looking, and the heroine-this time it was pretty Roberta Peters-sang a tricky song he had often heard on the radio, called Una Voce Poco Fa. After that there was a lot of fine singing and clowning. Fat Fernando Corena sat in a fat chair and glared suspiciously at everybody; tall, skinny Jerome Hines wore a crazy hat, sat in a tall, skinny chair, giving him arguments. The heroine seemed to have two other...
...Premier were inviting Frenchmen to use the London agreement as they had for four years used EDC, to delay Germany's sovereignty and rearmament while pretending to inch towards it. In effect, he was asking the Assembly to approve German rearmament in theory, while suggestting sotto voce that the new German army might never become a reality...
...almost a sotto voce footnote, Attlee declared that China's rulers maintained "far too many delusions about the West," but by and large, he had "been impressed by certain very definite reforms that, from all we could gather, marked a new departure in China." Attlee said that there was "evidence," although he cited none and admitted there was really very little, that "you have [there] a government that is incorruptible, that is genuinely working in accordance with the principles believed and has done some very remarkable pieces of work, a government based on the good will of the peasant...
...Carnegie's big stage, Anna Maria had gone through a program that might have taxed many an older, more experienced singer. She had sailed confidently and surely through the coloratura flights of Rigoletto's Caro Nome and Una Voce Poco Fa from The Barber of Seville, had expertly sung the difficult death aria from La Traviata. In her pink silk party dress, hands clasped in front of her, she sang her songs in a clear sweet voice that made one listener stand up and shout in rapturous Italian: "Un' angelo dal paradiso...