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Special categories include the tenore di grazia (many Rossini roles); the lyric tenor (eg Alfredo in La Traviata); the halfway house of the lirico-spinto tenor (Cavaradossi in Tosca); spinto (Canio in Pagliacci); and – for the major Wagner roles – the Heldentenor.
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Reply to this maria grazia pozzi what a nice interview! another voice, another bridge …
Global Voices in English » Translator of the week: Carolina Chandra Rumuat 2009
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Maybe I could add that there is something offensive about the pervasiveness of feminist porn – heat, grazia, closer, OK, Hello, cosmo etc.
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This was the case in, for instance, the cadenza of Amelia's usually heart-rending aria "Morro, ma prima in grazia": Tamara Wilson gave a competent performance of the role, but her expression is still a work in progress.
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Grande ricchezza del cristiano il non accontentarsi solamente dell'esercizio delle virtù morali; ma il dare a tutte le proprie azioni grazia di unione con Cristo e partecipazione viva della grazia sua.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Ancor l'ha Dio per maggior grazia dato che non pò mal finir chi l'ha parlato.
Dante Alighieri Wetherbee, Winthrop 2006
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[166] Fu essa Lucrezia di venusto e mansueto aspetto, prudente, di gratissime maniere negli atti, e nel parlare di molta grazia e allegrezza, says Alfonso's secretary, Bonaventura Pistofilo, in his Vita di Alfonso I d'Este.
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius
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Che della grazia ..., the beginning of a phrase implying that the favour asked is looked for from the great kindness of the Sovereign
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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"Stiamo nella cella del cognoscimento di noi; cognoscendo, noi per noi non essere, e la bonta di Dio in noi; ricognoscendo l'essere, e ogni grazia che e posta sopra l'essere, da lui."
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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Prato where having been smitten by the _bellissima grazia ed aria_ of one of the novices, Lucrezia Buti, Fra Lippo painted her portrait in this picture, fell madly in love, and eloped [205] with her: the latter exquisite painting Vasari extols as a most rare work which was held in the greatest esteem by the masters of his day.
The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893
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