basso

Blessed with a preternaturally resonant basso — someone should record this actor for use, like the sound of ocean waves, by troubled sleepers — Page seems to have been custom-designed himself for the passages he pulls out of the texts.

But for Basso (Super 8), keeping a straight face during these scenes was easier said then done.

Basso said Alleman had a genetic predisposition for cardiac problems, as both of his parents died of heart attacks in their 50s.

"He lived a very full life," said Basso, who seemed shaken when reached by phone Monday evening.

Basso recalled Alleman as a fun-loving man who loved the Heart Attack Grill.

Dmitri had been a basso profundo singer, and to this day retains a commanding voice as well as a keen ear.

He passed them by, and haughty tenor and swaggering basso again took heart of grace.

She stood by the gate and pumped up basso-profundo bawls from her second or lower stomach.

For him Gibson executed a basso rilievo in terra-cotta, now in the Liverpool museum.

The inner apartments are much the same as the portico, all covered with figures in basso relievo.

Not far from it, on the side of a large well, was fixed a stone with three figures carved on it, in basso relievo.