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Tamagno's and voice
But his international career did not take off explosively until 1888, with the role of Otello — which Verdi had penned with Tamagno's voice in mind — serving as his global calling card.
An elegant lyric-dramatic tenor of the French school, de Reszke's repertoire overlapped Tamagno's to some extent, and although he could never out sing his Italian rival, he had a rounder voice and a suaver stage presence.
B. Steane's The Grand Tradition: 70 Years of Singing on Record ( Duckworth, London, 1974 ) contain evaluations of Tamagno's voice and artistry.
Consequently his voice, although still astonishingly powerful and kept under firm technical control, was no longer at its peak, though the recording technology of the time was almost certainly not equal to the task of capturing the full breadth of Tamagno's ability at the time.
Potter pays tribute to Tamagno's vocal attributes in his book about the history of tenor singing, averring that his " recorded legacy " is " a priceless connection with Verdi " while Steane, writing in The Grand Tradition ( pp. 19 – 23 ), praises Tamagno's discs as " artistic and devoted performances by a singer of exceptional gifts " with a " great voice ".

Tamagno's and with
) Tamagno's vocal range extended effortlessly up to a resounding high C-sharp during his prime, but he was no mere ' belter ' of high notes ; for his recordings provide evidence of his ability, even at career's end, to sing softly when required, modulating the dynamic levels of his clarion instrument with remarkable skill and unexpected sensitivity.
Scott declares in The Record of Singing ( pp. 131 – 133 ) that Tamagno's Otello recordings are " invaluable historically " with the Esultate in particular displaying " amazing force " and all of them exhibiting an " intensity of utterance " that is " unique ".

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Indeed, Henry Pleasants, author of The Great Singers, goes so far as to say that the " searing despair " of Tamagno's version of Otello's death aria, Niun mi tema, " is possibly unmatched by anything else on wax " ( Macmillan Publishing, revised edition, London, 1983, pp. 252 – 254 ).
Of more specialist interest is a 2007 release of all of Tamagno's extant 12-inch records on high quality vinyl discs by the United Kingdom firm Historic Masters.
The Historic Masters boxed set is accompanied by a biographical essay written by Michael Aspinall, who also discusses Tamagno's discography and appraises his vocal technique.
The baritone on the Otello duet is anonymous but Aspinall believes it might be Tamagno's younger brother, Giovanni, who had a minor singing career.

Tamagno's and on
The small group of composers featured on Tamagno's combined recorded output of 1903 and 1904 comprises Giacomo Meyerbeer, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet, de Lara, Giordano, Rossini and, naturally enough, Verdi.
Symposium Records has released a two-CD anthology of Tamagno's published and unpublished recordings ( catalogue number 1186 / 87 ), while an extensive selection of them was issued on the Pearl / Opal label ( CD 9846 ) in 1990.

Tamagno's and two
The amount charged for each of Tamagno's discs represented at least a week's wages for the common man and for that outlay he would receive a single-sided product, sometimes containing less than two minutes of music.

Tamagno's and recordings
Clearly, Tamagno's recordings were aimed at upper-crust customers, as were those made by such eminent contemporaries of his as Nellie Melba, Adelina Patti, Pol Plançon and Mattia Battistini.

Tamagno's and operatic
Furthermore, the Teatro Regio di Torino has acquired many of Tamagno's costumes and other items relating to his operatic career, while his butterfly collection can be viewed in Varese at the Villa Mirabello.

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" ( Verdi expressed reservations about Tamagno's softer singing, not about the power and ring of his vocalism in dramatic passages of the score.
In 1892, he took part in a revival of Puccini's flawed early opera Edgar that was staged in Madrid under the supervision of the composer ; but even Tamagno's involvement in the enterprise was not enough to reinvigorate Edgar and it remains rarely heard.
To paraphrase Tamagno's New York Times obituary of 1 September 1905, such was the extraordinary facility of the tenor's upper register, he made the hurling forth of his high A, B and C sound as easy as everyday speech.
Tamagno's obituary in the New York Times says that he sang in the United States for the first time in 1890.
To give just five specific examples of Tamagno's foreign engagements in the wake of the 1887 premiere of Otello, he performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1894 – 1895, at London's Lyceum Theatre in 1889, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in 1896-97, at the Paris Opera in 1897, and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1895 and 1901.
Tamagno's medical condition failed to improve, however, and he suffered a heart attack while at the villa.
Tamagno's beloved daughter Margherita, who had been born out of wedlock, and for whom he cared from her birth, inherited his considerable estate, according to biographer Ugo Piavano.
They were made during February 1903 at Tamagno's holiday retreat in Ospedaletti and during April 1904 at a ' studio ' in Rome.
The British Gramophone & Typewriter Company, HMV / EMI's predecessor, produced all of Tamagno's shellac discs, which were 10 or 12 inches in size and played at a nominal 78 revolutions per minute.
( Such sessions could be a daunting experience for singers of Tamagno's generation, who were accustomed to performing before an audience in an opera house environment.
Roland Gelatt's revised edition of The Fabulous Phonograph ( Collier Books, New York, 1977, p. 119 ) asserts that Tamagno's recording contract, signed in December 1902, was the first to embody " the royalty principle ".

intensely and bright
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Most of the species can produce large amounts of deoxyanthocyanins in response to various stresses, including bright sunlight and extremes of temperature, causing the water surface to appear to be covered with an intensely red carpet.
Bareket doesn't refer to any particular colour, while Smaragdos was often used in Greek literature to refer to an intensely bright crystal found in columnar formations.
Although thirty-six years his junior, “ Christofor ” as she was nicknamed, was very bright, intensely loyal, and a devoted partner.
The object, intensely bright and a dull metallic silver, was shaped like a huge upright diamond, about the size of the Dayton water tower, with its top and bottom cut off so that they were flat rather than pointed.
: Similar to californica, but head and back more intensely colored, with bright purplish tinge to blue of head.
She favoured dark and deep blues, very dark greens, and heather-toned purples as well as intensely bright orange and deep saffron yellow.

intensely and voice
Voice problems that require voice analysis most commonly originate from the vocal folds or the laryngeal musculature that controls them, since the folds are subject to collision forces with each vibratory cycle and to drying from the air being forced through the small gap between them, and the laryngeal musclature is intensely active during speech or singing and is subject to tiring.
" Philip Burton tutored his charge intensely in school subjects and also worked at developing the youth's acting voice, including outdoor voice drills which improved his projection.
His health showed signs of collapse from 1883 ; in January 1887 he lost his voice, and suffered intensely from the failure to make himself understood.
# 70 % of voice hearers reported that their voices had begun after a severe traumatic or intensely emotional event, such as an accident, divorce or bereavement, sexual or physical abuse, love affairs, or pregnancy.

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Listening for hours to his laments that the war and `` Mist Fair's '' poverty afterwards had robbed the mare of many a racing triumph, and to his predictions of greatness for the procession of foals to come, Jenny could look forward to years of conflict with an animal who disliked her intensely and showed it.
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Due to the situation in Iberia, Martel believed he needed a virtually full-time army — one he could train intensely — as a core of veteran Franks who would be augmented with the usual conscripts called up in time of war.
The book's style was innovative, combining naturalism with gothic melodrama, and broke new ground in being written from an intensely first-person female perspective.
The album's accompanying tour featured the band performing an intensely physical show with treadmills and a large Greek temple set.
* Tsoureki, a traditional Christmas and Easter sweet bread also known as ' Lambropsomo ' ( Easter bread ), flavored with " mahlepi ", the intensely aromatic extract of the stone of the St. Lucie Cherry.
It is, though, an intensely personal work with little dramatic power that only succeeds in appealing to readers after substantial editing.
Together with this intensely positive feeling state, people who have near death experiences also report that consciousness or a heightened state of awareness seems as if it is at the heart of experiencing a taste of ' Heaven '.
Booth's stage performances were often characterized by his contemporaries as acrobatic and intensely physical, leaping upon the stage and gesturing with passion.
Libya long claimed the Aouzou Strip, a strip of land in northern Chad rich with uranium deposits that was intensely involved in Chad's civil war in the 1970s and 1980s.
Atta initially stayed with the two high school teachers, but they found Atta frustrating owing to his closed-mindedness and intensely introverted personality.
Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.
While singers are emotionally engaged with the lyrics, often intensely so, they remain cool, relaxed, and in control.
Santorini tomatoes are renowned ; they are cherry tomatoes that are extremely tasty and sweet, and with an intensely red, staining colour.
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Dirac, who had just then been intensely involved with working out the foundations of Heisenberg's matrix mechanics, immediately understood that these conditions could be met if A, B, C and D are matrices, with the implication that the wave function has multiple components.
Another serious concern is that the huge number of neutrons released in the fusion reactions react with the plant, causing them to become intensely radioactive themselves, as well as mechanically weakening metals.
Leepson asserted that the majority of people favors some sort of sex instruction in public schools, and this has become an intensely controversial issue because unlike most subjects, sex education is concerned with an especially sensitive and highly personal part of human life.
Well-educated, with an organisational ability, business acumen, focus on detail and diplomatic skills that surpassed even Carte's, Lenoir gradually became intensely involved in all of his business affairs.
In his review of Ivry's biography for Library Journal Larry Lipkis is persuaded by Ivry's research that, " There seems to be little question that Ravel was an affected, intensely secretive dandy with gay inclinations ," but also expresses the view that Ivry's work is less persuasive in definitively linking Ravel's sexuality to characteristics of his musical oeuvre.

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