Associated in particular with the spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory, he was celebrated universally for his powerhouse voice, electrifying top notes, clear timbre, a very elegant and passionate singing and remarkable performances.

Essentially a lyric tenor with spinto capabilities, Bergonzi was greatly admired during the peak of his career for his beautiful diction, smooth legato, warm timbre and elegant phrasing.

Tauber had a lyrical, flexible tenor voice, and he sang with a warm, elegant legato.

The préfecture is located in the palace built by the intendant of Montauban ( the equivalent of a préfet before the French Revolution ), and is a large elegant 18th century mansion, built of pink bricks and white stone, with a steep roof of blue gray slates, in a style combining northern and southern French styles of architecture.

... the maid of honor, Miss Annie Stephens, was as pretty as a French pastel, in a directoire costume of yellow satin with a long coat of green velvet sleeves, and a vest of gold brocade ... The bride was a fair vision of youthful loveliness in her robe of exquisite ivory white and satin ... her slippers were white satin wrought with pearls ... an elegant supper was served.

The French conqueror brought to an end the most fascinating century of its history: during the 18th century Venice became perhaps the most elegant and refined city in Europe, greatly influencing art, architecture and literature.

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (; 24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901 ) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times.

Aguascalientes historic downtown is home to several outstanding museums including the Aguascalientes Museum ( Museo de Aguascalientes ), the city's art museum, housed in a Classical-style building designed by the beloved self-trained architect Refugio Reyes ; the Guadalupe Posada Museum ( Museo Guadalupe Posada ), located in the historic nationhood of Triana, exhibits the life and work of José Guadalupe Posada ; and the State History Museum, which is housed in an elegant Art Nouveau mansion typical of the Porfirian period with and ornate patio and dining room with vegetable motifs in a Mediterranean style, with a French Academism facade, and interior columns and an arcade of pink stone characteristic of Porfirian Eclecticism.

The figures are very elegant and fine-linked represented: probably a French influence, and, at the same time, an important style characteristic of the Minoritenwerkstatt, which date back until approximately 1360.

His poetry is elegant and polished, and largely free from the trivialities of the Anacreontic lyric of the earlier generation of imitators of French literature ; but he lacked imaginative depth.

Whereas elegant variation in English prose is thought by some to be excessive, in other languages — French, Urdu and Sanskrit, for example — it might be thought to be a good writing style.

Previously, the site taken up by Yarralumla house was occupied by an elegant, Georgian-style homestead with shady verandahs on two sides, a shingle-clad roof and rows of French windows replete with shutters.

Assuming that he had been on the continent with the Duke of Bedford, Dunstaple would have been introduced to French fauxbourdon ; borrowing some of the sonorities, he created elegant harmonies in his own music using thirds and sixths.

Carte hired manager César Ritz and French chef Auguste Escoffier, who established an unprecedented standard of quality in hotel service, entertainment and elegant dining, attracting royalty and other wealthy guests and diners.

The Sunday Times ( UK ) reported on 20 June 2008 as follows: A mansion worth £ 15m in one of Paris's most elegant districts has become the latest of 33 luxury properties bought in France by President Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon ... a French judicial investigation has discovered that Bongo, 72, and his relatives also bought a fleet of limousines, including a £ 308, 823 Maybach for his wife, Edith, 44.

Oboists of the past had tended to be divided between the French school ( elegant but thin and reedy in tone ) and the German ( full and rounded but rather clumsy, with little or no vibrato ), but Goossens brought together the best qualities of both styles.

Admired by Alexander Pushkin and Vladimir Nabokov, the style of his writings is elegant and flowing, modelled on the easy sentences of the French prose writers rather than the long periodical paragraphs of the old Slavonic school.

In 1777 he published under the title of Discours choisis his panegyrics on Saint Louis, Saint Augustine and Fénelon, his remarks on Bossuet and his Essai sur l ' éloquence de la chaire, a volume which contains much good criticism, and remained a French classic through the nineteenth century, as long as elegant rhetoric was valued in the pulpit.

Its textiles and handcrafts, its elegant blend of Islamic, Berber, Andalucian and French cultures, and its cool climate in the mountains have made it an important center of tourism in Algeria.

On the superb Kirribilli Point location, Colonel Gibbes erected, between 1842 and 1843, a graceful single-storey house with wide verandahs and elegant French doors.

Despite her insistence on the more elegant French pronunciation most people usually call her " Mrs Bucket " or more disparagingly " The Bucket Woman ," behind her back.

An elegant and highly skillful dribbler, passer, and goal-scorer, Francescoli was nicknamed El Príncipe (" The Prince " in Spanish ) or Le Prince ( in French ).

This stallion and others were used to create a more elegant, smaller and sleeker look in the French Percheron, while still retaining the traditional bone and foot structure.

An elegant band of music, consisting of French horns, hautboys, clarionets, and bassoons, playing God Save the King.

Very elegant turtlenecks of silk or nylon knit, especially made with French cuffs for formal dress affairs, have also seen success in American fashion.

At the 1872 Congress of the Breton Association at Saint-Brieuc, he argued that the songs had been completely manufactured in the manner of MacPherson, because, he said, he had never himself met with ballads in such elegant Breton and free of borrowed French words.

Eliza obviously made an impression on her teachers, as a Mr Grant, who taught art at the little school, was later to recall her as " an elegant and graceful child.

The area is known for its historic downtown, elegant Victorian-style homes, and one of Michigan's top rated public school systems, Farmington Public Schools.

Tan ' yū headed the Kajibashi branch of the school in Edo and painted in many castles and the Imperial palace, in a less bold but extremely elegant style, which however tended to become stiff and academic in the hands of less-talented imitators.

By 1990 the area's baby boom generation had grown beyond secondary education and the town's secondary school ( opened in 1936 with elegant neo-Georgian buildings fronting Fyfield Road, expanded greatly when it became a comprehensive in the 1960s ) was closed despite vigorous local protest.

Lino Frías anchored the rhythm section of La Sonora until 1976 — his guajeos ( alternatively called montunos or tumbaos ) and the improvisational quality of the solos derived from these repeated, syncopated vamp sections were elegant and percussive in equal measure, steeped as these were in the traditions of the school of Cuban / Afro-Cuban piano.

She has a very noble and elegant aura, lives in a large mansion with many maids, and is considered to be of the highest standing at their school ; she has a considerable fanbase following of both genders and is the frequent target of love confessions.

The Portela samba school in the commission made more refined, where its components parade with elegant clothes, even occasionally with tails and top hat, a model which soon came to be copied by other schools.

There are a number of " quads " around the school, some with religious statues and elegant gardens.

This elegant building was constructed in the 1880s and until 1924 housed the Academy of Saint Aloysius, an all-girls school.

Along the western side of the Praza do Obradoiro is the elegant 18th century Pazo de Raxoi, now the city hall.

Lancelot de Carles called her " beautiful with an elegant figure ", and a Venetian in Paris in 1528 also reported that she was said to be beautiful.

Jesuit priest Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, who in 1639 published a book called Tesoro de la lengua guaraní (" The Treasure of the Guaraní Language "), described it as a language " so copious and elegant that it can compete with the most famous languages.

de Paris, 1781 ), which is an elegant investigation of the problem with earthworks referred to in the title and establishes in connection with it his capital discovery of the curves of curvature of a surface.

Amongst the most important monuments are the great Château de Saumur itself which stands high overlooking the town, and the nearby Château de Beaulieu which stands just 200 metres from the south bank of the Loire river ; designed by the renowned architect Jean Drapeau, it is recognised for its light and elegant architecture.

In 1799 a Parisian fashion magazine reported that even bald men were adopting Titus wigs, and the style was also worn by women, the Journal de Paris reporting in 1802 that " more than half of elegant women were wearing their hair or wig à la Titus.

All his works were written in an elegant style ; but apart from his share in the editing of the Historiens de la France, they were mostly in the form of separate articles on literary and historical subjects.

Doña Ramona was well known for her lavish parties, the Legarda house is a tribute to Doña Ramona ( Moning ), as it houses La Cocina de Tita Moning, a fine dining restaurant that aims to recreate the wonderful parties of Manila ’ s most elegant era, using heirloom recipes of the Legardas, served on antique china, glassware, and silverware.

In the neighboring block is also the traditional and elegant Club de Viña, with its classical facade.

Santa Cruz de La Palma ( the island's main port ) retains many elegant 17th and 18th century houses, and produces high-quality handmade cigars made from locally grown tobacco.

His history is a model of exact research, drawn from the best sources, and presented in an elegant and animated style ; unfortunately, even for the men of the Renaissance, Latin was a dead language ; it was impossible for de Thou to find exact equivalents for technical terms of geography or of administration.

The Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún stated that, in all aspects of their appearance, the women were " quite elegant ", women wore skirts ( embroidered for the nobles ) and a small triangular poncho covering the breasts.

in elegant pose in February 1920 issue of Vanity Fair in a portrait by Adolf de Meyer

Guajira was refined and popularized by the Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist Guillermo Portabales, whose elegant style has become known as guajira de salón.

The housing stock varies from semi-derelict tenements near the Brussels-South railway station in the north, to elegant patrician houses on the southern borders with Uccle and Ixelles, to tourist hotels at the inner end of the Chaussée de Charleroi / Charleroisesteenweg.

We cannot here do more than enumerate the leading troubadours and briefly indicate in what conditions their poetry was developed and through what circumstances it fell into decay and finally disappeared: Peire d ' Alvernha, who in certain respects must be classed with Marcabru ; Arnaut Daniel, remarkable for his complicated versification, the inventor of the sestina, a poetic form for which Dante and Petrarch express an admiration difficult for us to understand ; Arnaut de Mareuil, who, while less famous than Arnaut Daniel, certainly surpasses him in elegant simplicity of form and delicacy of sentiment ; Bertran de Born, now the most generally known of all the troubadours on account of the part he is said to have played both by his sword and his sirveniescs in the struggle between Henry II of England and his rebel sons, though the importance of his part in the events of the time seems to have been greatly exaggerated ; Peire Vidal of Toulouse, a poet of varied inspiration who grew rich with gifts bestowed on him by the greatest nobles of his time ; Guiraut de Borneil, lo macsire dels trobadors, and at any rate master in the art of the so-called close style ( trebar clus ), though he has also left us some songs of charming simplicity ; Gaucelm Faidit, from whom we have a touching lament ( plaint ) on the death of Richard Cœur de Lion ; Folquet of Marseille, the most powerful thinker among the poets of the south, who from being a merchant and troubadour became an abbot, and finally bishop of Toulouse ( d. 1231 ).