But opera lovers should be glad for a chance to hear it, and the Opera Orchestra of New York is living up to its reputation as a champion of less- performed works by presenting it at Carnegie Hall with Francisco Casanova -- who is become the pre-eminent second-string tenor in the city -- with a perfectly capable voice, in the title role, and Maria Dragoni and Rossana Potenza as the female rivals.
Having the nation's pre-eminent First Amendment lawyer on the set was certainly handy.
Writing in "The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt," Dr. Peacock said: "It appears that Myos Hormos was pre-eminent during the second century B.C. and that Berenice began to rise in importance during the first century B.C. and became dominant in the first century A.D. The India trade was thus developed in Ptolemaic times and the Romans merely took over and perhaps expanded a well-established concern".
This is a beautifully written book about the life and times of Henry Cotton, one of the pre-eminent psychiatrists in twentieth-century North America.
He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time.
This is serious business, as the New York Times is a pre-eminent member of the fourth estate by which our nation's leaders are held accountable and by which the electorate is informed and our democracy functions.
Germany have taken the place of Spain as the pre-eminent world team and the fourth World Cup of their history, although the first for a unified Germany, is richly deserved.
For the first season, the pre-eminent drummer and sometime keyboardist Jack DeJohnette recorded his first solo piano album, "Return," a collection of gentle but austere compositions, often in a plaintive minor key.
The West had once been pre-eminent and militarily dominant, and the first generation of third-world nationalists had sought to fashion their world in the image of the West.
Lyon ***** Around the confluence of the rivers Saône and Rhône, Lyon has risen to become France's third most pre-eminent city.
His commitment to bringing together science and daily practice resulted in his monumental Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology (1973), now named after him and still, in its seventh edition, pre-eminent in its field.
