What is the Grand Tour and where are Rob and Rylan visiting? TV personality Rylan Clark and broadcast barrister Rob Rinder have joined on-screen forces to show their friendship and frolicks through Italy in the new BBC Two series Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour.The ... 05/17/2024 - 1:36 am | View Link
Drama and spirituality – Desmond O’Neill on Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle One deviation in modern performance is in the combination of voices used. Rossini specified “Twelve singers of three sexes – men, women and castrati – will be sufficient for its execution: that is, ... 05/15/2024 - 7:59 am | View Link
Rob Rinder breaks silence on Rylan Clark romance rumours after cryptic post on love Rob Rinder sparked romance speculation after he shared a quote about friendship turning into love, in response to his co-star Rylan Clark's post. 05/15/2024 - 12:46 am | View Link
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo On Training, Technique and Radical Operatic Expression Over a busy three-decade career, Anthony Roth Costanzo moved from singing in Broadway shows as a boy soprano—and backup vocals for Michael Jackson—to a successful career in one of the most challenging ... 05/14/2024 - 1:20 pm | View Link
Conversing with Renowned Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo | Insightful Discussion Anthony Roth Costanzo. Matthew Placek With a career spanning over three decades, Anthony Roth Costanzo has journeyed from Broadway as a boy soprano to providing backup vocals for Michael Jackson, and ... 05/14/2024 - 2:56 am | View Link
Castrati: The Boys Castrated For Their High Singing Voices Castrati: The Italian Boys Who Were Castrated In Order To Maintain Their High-Pitched Singing Voices. By Kendrick Foster | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis. Published May 23, 2023. Updated May 26, 2023. Starting in the 16th century, castrati were used by choirs as a substitution for women. 05/16/2024 - 4:13 am | View Website
Castrati | Encyclopedia.com Castrati are male singers, castrated before puberty in order to preserve a strong soprano singing voice. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, castrati were used extensively in Italian church choirs and were famous throughout Europe as stars of the Italian opera. 05/16/2024 - 3:38 am | View Website
Metropolitan Opera | Castrati The Vatican banned castrati in 1903, and the last known castrato, Alberto Moreschi, died in 1922; recordings of Moreschi singing offer modern listeners the only surviving example of this voice type. Fortunately, singers and directors have come up with two solutions for casting castrato roles today. 05/15/2024 - 9:18 pm | View Website
Castrato A castrato (Italian; pl.: castrati) is a male singer who underwent castration before puberty in order to retain singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. The voice can also occur in one who, due to an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity. 05/15/2024 - 4:10 pm | View Website
Castrato | Vocal Technique, Opera & Baroque | Britannica castrato, male soprano or contralto voice of great range, flexibility, and power, produced as a result of castration before puberty. The castrato voice was introduced in the 16th century, when women were banned from church choirs and the stage. It reached its greatest prominence in 17th- and 18th-century opera. 05/15/2024 - 9:44 am | View Website
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A new YouGov poll for Yahoo News shows that 52% of Americans now believe the central premise of Donald Trump’s hush money trial: that he did "falsify documents to conceal a hush money payment to a porn star." Just 22% say he did not, while roughly one-quarter say they don't know.
Nearly half of Americans said they were following the trial at least somewhat closely, at 48%, while 52% said they were not.
[Above: The last time Trump got a medal that DIDN'T include cheating at his own golf course, it was from the Saudis. -- eds.]
The first Congressional Gold Medal was struck in 1776 as a way of saying thanks to George Washington. Since then, the medal has been awarded just 184 times to hallowed figures including Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama.
The disgraced former Republican Congressman, now CEO of Truth Social, Devin Nunes joined Real America's Voice. He claimed there's a massive conspiracy against Trump's media site, causing the stock to plummet.
It can't be that the site is losing millions of dollars while not having the kind of engagement a thriving social media site needs to survive.
Don't you love it when a couple of millionaire Fox News hosts weigh in on the homeless situation as if they are experts on the issue? Yeah, me neither. But that's what Jesse Watters and Jeanine Pirro did, according to Media Matters.
"A lot of these people, when they're asked and given a home, they don't want to go into the home," Watters insisted.
New York Times: “Two years into President Biden’s term, his aides began negotiating with Saudi leaders to have the kingdom establish diplomatic relations with Israel. But when the Israel-Hamas war began last October, the talks withered. American and Saudi officials have tried to revive prospects for a deal by demanding more from Israel — a cease-fire in Gaza and irreversible steps toward the founding of a Palestinian nation.”
“Now those officials say they are close to a final agreement on the main elements of what the Saudis want from the deal: a U.