Sayão

[sah-you, -yah-oo, sah-youn]

noun

1. Bidú Balduina de Oliveira Sayão, 1902–1999, Brazilian soprano.

Example Sentences

To take one example, the French chanson “Maman, dites-moi,” a staple of midcentury Met Opera stars like the soprano Bidu Sayao.

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Carlos Sayao, Shelton’s Toronto-based lawyer, said her victory before the arbitration court represented “the imposing of important checks and balances on the powers of national Olympic committees over their athletes.”

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“She felt she was an expired product in their eyes,” said Carlos Sayao, Shelton’s Toronto-based lawyer.

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“We could look at the bones and see what features characterize an embryo, a hatchling, and a young individual when he’s matured,” says coauthor Juliana Sayão, a bone-structure expert at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

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Leonard Warren is potent in the title role, Bidú Sayão is a girlish, nuanced Gilda, and Jussi Bjoerling — appearing at the Met for the first time after World War II — plays the Duke as if he has everything to prove.

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