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  • L'anima d'ogne bruto e delle piante di complession potenziata tira lo raggio e il moto delle luci sante;

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • ‘Nabucodonosore,’ with Count Pizzicato, with a bellezza, a grandezza, a raggio, that excited in the bosom of the audience a corresponding furore: her scherzando was exquisite, though we confess we thought the concluding fioritura in the passage in Y flat a leetle, a very leetle sforzata.

    Mens Wives 2006

  • La luna immobile innonda l'etere d'un raggio pallido.

    A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

  • I said as much to the master, and he consented to give me "Bel raggio," of "Semiramide."

    In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

  • The eighth scene is introduced by a graceful female chorus which leads to Semiramis's brilliant and well-known aria, "Bel raggio."

    The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876

  • Is it carnal affection, or, del suo prestino stato (of Plato's ante-natal state) il raggio ardente?

    The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Walter Pater 1866

  • From allusions in the sonnets, we may divine that when they first approached each other he had debated much with himself whether this last passion would be the most unsoftening, the most desolating of all -- un dolce amaro, un si e no mi muovi; is it carnal affection, or, del suo prestino stato (Plato's ante-natal state) il raggio ardente?

    The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater 1866

  • Playing Semiramide as a platinum blonde siren, Myrto Papatanasiu a striking Violetta for WNO a few years back sounded uncomfortable with the coloratura of the showpiece aria "Bel raggio", but later produced some expressive and dynamic singing, blending beautifully with her Arsace, the mezzo Hadar Halévy, in the magnificent duet "Giorno d'orrore".

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The "Doppio raggio in fronte," I found in the shape of a pair of horns, which, at the first glance, gave something quite Satanic to the head, which disgusted me.

    The Diary of an Ennuyée 1827

  • 'DERCHE gli Ibn compagna L' eftivo raggio ardeote L* agricoltpr non fente,

    pieces selected from the italian poets 1784

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