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Much of the Spanish fleet was destroyed, and substantial supplies were destroyed or captured. There followed a series of raiding parties against several forts along the Portuguese coast. A Spanish treasure ship, returning from the Indies, was also captured. The damage caused by the English delayed Spanish preparations for the Armada by at least ...
The Spanish Singer is an 1860 oil painting on canvas by the French painter Édouard Manet, conserved since 1949 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York. Composed in Manet's studio, it employed a model and props which were later used for at least one other painting. [ 1 ]
The 1980s saw Carreras occasionally moving outside the strictly operatic repertoire, at least in the recording studio, with recitals of songs from zarzuela, musicals and operettas. He also made full-length recordings of two musicals – West Side Story (1985) and South Pacific (1986) – both with Kiri Te Kanawa as his co-star.
The song reflects Mercury's love of opera with his high notes and Caballé's operatic vocals, backed by a full orchestra. Originally released in 1987, it was one of the biggest hits of Mercury's solo career, reaching number eight in the UK singles chart. After Mercury's death in 1991, it was featured at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Maria Felicia Malibran (Spanish pronunciation: [maˈɾia feˈliθja maˈliβɾan]; 24 March 1808 – 23 September 1836) [1] was a Spanish singer who commonly sang both contralto and soprano parts, and was one of the best-known opera singers of the 19th century.
The painting must have been substantially reduced on the left, now showing only part of the original composition; the chair on the left is probably a later addition, apparently intended to balance the composition on this side when the canvas was reduced Portrait of a Man: 1632: Oil on panel: 90.8 x 68.57: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: 62a
Because of the constant singing of eighth notes in 6 8 meter at an allegro vivace tempo, the piece is often noted as one of the most difficult baritone arias to perform. [1] This, along with the tongue-twisting nature of some of the lines, insisting on Italian superlatives (always ending in "-issimo"), have made it a pièce de résistance in which a skilled baritone has the chance to highlight ...
The elegant gentleman is a combination of English and French: 1) the hairstyle en Grecque carré à dos d'âne; [note 12] 2) an English handkerchief of black muslin; 3) an Anglo-French coat; 4) a vest en fond filoche; [note 13] 5) tight breeches en bleu mignon or strong blue worsted; 6) two large watch chains; 7) blue and white checked silk ...