They are only permitted to sing while accompanied by male singers.
Because the Fifth Estate has no entertainment license, no one is permitted to sing or to play the guitar inside, and among writings and sketches covering the walls there is a warning to this effect.
If Jonas Kaufmann is permitted to sing Verdi's Otello at Covent Garden, why can't a white actor, without the obscene literalism of "blacking up", play the Moor?
Which memorable moment from Sunday's broadcast of the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards is the teen heartthrob Justin Bieber silently reacting to here? A. The sight of the British pop singer Jessie J, recovering from a recent accident and confined to a chair, permitted to sing only during commercial breaks where she is cut off by Taco Bell advertisements?
Rospigliosi's most famous libretto, Sant' Alessio (1632; "Saint Alexis"), was given a setting by Landi, which required an all-male cast, including castrati in female roles another feature of opera in Rome, where women were not permitted to sing on stage.
"Turbulent," a tense split-screen installation that featured a man and a woman in an anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better singing contest (women are not permitted to sing alone in front of a mixed audience in Iran), won first prize at the Venice Biennale in 1999, and Neshat's work is in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim, the Whitney, and the British Museum.
The ruling involved a 2008 ordinance that required performers and vendors to seek permits to sing, dance and sell items along the boardwalk through a lottery system held between Memorial Day and Nov. 1.
She recalled giving voice lessons to Mexican women whose husbands would not permit them to sing in public.
Levin devotes her life to serving a system that excludes her and her 10 daughters from formal positions of authority or leadership, a system that will not allow her a title, count her in a prayer quorum or permit her to sing at her Shabbat table if men from outside the family are present.
There have been a few snags, as when he walked off the Ed Sullivan television show in the spring of 1963 because the Columbia Broadcasting System would not permit him to sing a tart appraisal of the John Birch Society, but on the whole he has experienced accelerating success.
"Instead of welcoming these loony visitors, permitting them to sing, whistle and even raise signs, the world is liable to see the 'Zionist storm troopers' in action once again".
