On her own, Ms. York was at her best in "Bel piacere" ("It is a great pleasure") and "Lascia ch'io pianga" ("Let me weep"), both also from "Rinaldo".
It's fascinating to realise that while the German Wagner was obsessed with singers and singing, with an ideal of "bel canto", it was the Italian, Verdi, who had little interest in singing for its own sake.
"After that, fame, money, 'Why don't you live in Bel Air?' It's like, 'Why would I want to do that?' I'm quite happy living the natural life of the writer.
Tell us about your neighborhood: If you had one word to describe your Bel-Air, it would be _________.
Once, at a funeral service near a quiet pond ringed with willows, my father prodded her: "Ma ,e un bel posto, vero?" It's a beautiful place, isn't it?
It's called the "Bel-Air," believe it or not, and it uses the natural processes of the plant inside the dome, roots and all, to filter out some nasty household pollutants like benzene and formaldehyde.
The main strength of BEL is that it is easily human-readable and machine-computable, making it an ideal language to capture literature evidences from manual curation as well as text mining pipelines.
