The department for media, culture and sport will decide which region will host the pilot by Christmas, with final tenders due by the end of February.
Due date for final tenders was set for last Tuesday.
In the tender final scene and elsewhere, she sings with telling verbal inflection and her voice often has a silvery radiance that so suits Strauss.
Their names are scattered throughout the book, right up to Bryan Obst, his father's final lover, a tender 22 to Stephen's 75.
And Odessa's impulsive desire to connect with John — she defends him when he comes in for verbal strafing on the Web forum — brings them into surprising intimacy, arrestingly depicted in the play's tender final image.
Her proud parents, Ned and Monisha, and the laborers on the plantation celebrate Treemonisha as their leader in a wistfully tender final ensemble and dance, "A Real Slow Drag".
Imeneo flopped at its 1740 premiere; the version Fabio Biondi and his ensemble Europa Galante have recorded, however, is the adaptation Handel made for Dublin two years later, and includes some striking arias and a lovely, tender final duet.
Yet, as Nietzsche well knew, the man who hammered out the "Ride of the Valkyries" also created the piercingly tender final scene of "Walküre," in which Wotan, chief of the gods, bids farewell to his daughter Brünnhilde, having been forced to punish her for passionate deeds that he wishes he himself could commit.
I'm sure, sitting in the Coronet, I found this satisfying enough, a tender final counterpoint to the movie's main business of horseplay (Fletcher's mental block is used, aggressively, as an excuse for Carrey to smash office equipment, fall over, leap into walls and crush his own head with a toilet seat).
The misty chant of The Song of the Plainland and the whispering choir of Seven Dreams of Seven Birds are less easy to stomach; the best thing about this album is Anja Lechner's deft cello playing in the brief and tender final piece, Laul.
