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List of The Sopranos episodes


Season four, for example, premiered sixteen months after the third season finale, and the sixth season returned almost two years after the end of season five. "The Sopranos" stars James Gandolfini as the Italian-American New Jersey-based contemporary mobster Tony Soprano. Edie Falco plays his wife Carmela Soprano, and Lorraine Bracco as his psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Melfi. The continuing story arc of "The Sopranos" is of how Tony Soprano deals with the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads.
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List of The Sopranos characters in the Soprano crime family


DiMeo crime family members (Paulie Gualtieri and Tony Soprano) to the Germans, how when in Military history of Italy during World War II the Germans invaded the country. He is friends with Furio Guinta. A criminal associate of Christopher from Long Branch, New Jersey sometimes referred to as "Giovanni" and in a payment dispute. Furio and Chris beat him badly in the back office of The Crazy Horse Too in West Long Branch, New Jersey and Adriana La Cerva witnesses the beating in season 4. Later, in season
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Junior Soprano


of Jimmy Hoffa and investigation into the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Tony fondly recalls how as a child Junior taught him how to play baseball and took him to New York Yankees games. Both Junior and Johnny dropped out of high school and turned to a life of organized crime, joining the DiMeo crime family. It was revealed in season 2 episode 2 that Junior was a WWII veteran. Junior Soprano reveals "In Camelot" that he was on a date with Fran Felstein at the 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey
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Stephen Brown (television producer)


Stephen R. Brown is a television producer who is best known for producing game shows and reality television. Brown has worked on numerous shows in association with Stone Stanley Entertainment, including "Fun House", "Shop 'til You Drop", "Legends of the Hidden Temple", and "The Mole". Brown has also executive-produced "Law & Order", "The Wire", and "How Much Is Enough?", as well as many episodes of "The Sopranos" final season. In
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Made in America (The Sopranos)


an abrupt cut to black followed by several seconds of silence led many viewers to initially believe that their cable or DVR had cut out at a crucial moment. Opposing interpretations soon emerged among viewers regarding the ultimate fate of series protagonist Tony Soprano, with some believing that he was killed while others believe that he remains alive. One argument for the former points to a conversation that Tony had in the midseason premiere episode "Soprano Home Movies" with his brother-in-law Bobby, in which Bobby comments on how suddenly and
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The Sopranos (season 2)


strong cast and solid writing add depth to the show's occasionally unlikable characters and their repellent deeds, making for thought-provoking, consistently compelling viewing." Ed Bark of "Dallas Morning News" wrote, "[It] could be the best TV series of our times. Not for everyone, no. But for what it is, The Sopranos is near magical." Steve Johnson of the "Chicago Tribune" praised the series for accurately portraying human communication, observing how the show reveals "matters of the greatest
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Television show


nine episodes (of "The Sopranos") will be part of what is being called either "Season 6, Part 2" or "Season 6B", or in ""Futurama" is splitting its seasons similar to how "South Park" does, doing half a season at a time, so this is season 6B for them." Since the 1990s, these shorter seasons also have been referred to as ".5" or half seasons, where the run of shows between September and December is labeled "Season
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D-Girl (The Sopranos)


"D-Girl" is the 20th episode of the HBO original series "The Sopranos" and the seventh of the show's second season. It was written by Todd A. Kessler and directed by Allen Coulter, and originally aired on February 27, 2000. "* = credit only" Tony and Carmela confront A.J. for damaging his mother's car while driving it without permission. When they lecture him on how he could have killed the girls in the car, A.J. remarks that "death just shows the absolute absurdity of
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Bach cantata


chorus as a French overture. Typically Bach employs soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists and a four-part choir, also SATB. He sometimes assigns the voice parts to the dramatic situation, for example soprano for innocence or alto for motherly feelings. The bass is often the "vox Christi," the voice of Jesus, when Jesus is quoted directly, as in , or indirectly, as in . In the absence of clear documentary evidence, there are different options as to how many singers to deploy per part
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Steve Schirripa


. His breakthrough role was in "The Sopranos" (2000), playing Tony Soprano's mobster brother-in-law Bobby Baccalieri for five seasons. For his first two seasons on the show, he wore a fat suit to fit the role. His many television appearances include "Angel," "Casino Cinema", "", "Hollywood Squares", "Joey", "Law & Order", "Law & Order SVU", "My Wife and Kids", "Ed", "
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List of The Sopranos characters


The following is a listing of fictional characters from the HBO series "The Sopranos". To view characters organized by their associations, see the subpages section. The following is a list of characters that are, or at one time were, a recurring guest on the series; they are listed in the order that they first appeared on the show. Many characters have had storylines that have spanned multiple seasons, while the others are restricted to arcs that occurred during a single season of the show. Rosalie "Ro" Aprile
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Musical instrument classification


more than one category: for example, the cello may be considered either tenor or bass, depending on how its music fits into the ensemble, and the trombone may be alto, tenor, or bass and the French horn, bass, baritone, tenor, or alto, depending on which range it is played. In a typical concert band setting, the first alto saxophone covers soprano parts, while the second alto saxophone covers alto parts. Many instruments include their range as part of their name: soprano saxophone, alto
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Leona Mitchell


Leona Mitchell (born October 13, 1949, Enid, Oklahoma) is an American operatic soprano and an Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame inductee. She is also a Grammy Award-winning soprano who sang for 18 seasons as a leading spinto soprano at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In her home state of Oklahoma, Ms Mitchell has been awarded many honors. These include the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. Her
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The Sopranos


role of Tony Soprano, but HBO felt that the role should go to an experienced actor. Van Zandt eventually agreed to star on the show as mob consigliere Silvio Dante, and his real-life spouse Maureen was cast as his on-screen wife Gabriella. The cast of the debut season of the series consisted of largely unknown actors, with the exception of Dominic Chianese and Nancy Marchand, but many cast members were noted for their acting ability and received mainstream attention for their performances. Subsequent seasons saw established actors Joe Pantoliano
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The Sopranos


. "The Sopranos" ushered in "Six Feet Under", "The Shield", "Rescue Me", and "Big Love"." Weiner said that when he became a "Sopranos" writer after having written the "Mad Men" pilot, "Whatever I had intended ["Mad Men"] to be ... was very different after seeing how seriously David Chase took human behavior. Real human behavior", giving "Maidenform" and how Peggy Olson's baby affects her as examples. The series
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Too Many Sopranos


Too Many Sopranos is an opera by Indiana University Jacobs School of Music faculty member Edwin Penhorwood. "Too Many Sopranos" is a two-act opera in English with a pastiche of song from opera's various periods. A group of sopranos is trying to get into heaven, but there is no more room in the heavenly choir. So, something has to be done, and it looks like some will be sent to Hell! Penhorwood wrote many gags into the opera based on stereotypes of sopranos, opera stock plots,
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Lost (TV series)


the show "in the dark business of exploring just how futile the modern search for peace, knowledge, recovery or profit really is." The critic did go on to say that series was not as "philosophically refined" as "The Sopranos" or "The Wire" but that it "has maximized the potential of narrative uncertainty and made it a beguiling constant." The fifth season once again received mostly positive critical reception. Season 5 was given a weighted average of 78 out of 100 by Metacritic. "Variety
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The Sopranos


passing through the toll plaza, the show had a shot of the World Trade Center towers in Tony's rear-view mirror. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, this shot was removed and replaced with a more generic shot, beginning with the show's fourth season. In a 2010 issue of "TV Guide", the show’s opening title sequence ranked #10 on a list of TV's top 10 credits sequences, as selected by readers. "The Sopranos" features a large cast of characters, many
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List of The Sopranos characters


crew in the first episode of Season 4, but there was no explanation as to where he came from and how he became part of the gang's inner circle. Carlo is not even directly referenced by name until the sixth season. His personal life is also shrouded in mystery. Though Carlo has two sons, Jason (who is seen on the show) and James (who is not), Carlo's wife (if he has one) is never seen by the audience, or even mentioned, nor is Carlo
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The Sopranos (season 6)


conflict with their New York enemies. Ratings and critical reception were both strong during the sixth season of "The Sopranos", but the ending of the final episode was controversial. "The Sopranos" won Outstanding Drama Series at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards for the second part of season six. onlyinclude /onlyinclude On the review aggregator website Metacritic, the sixth season scored 96 out of 100, based on 18 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim". On Rotten Tomatoes, the first half of the season has an 89% approval
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Laura Bretan


Laura Bretan (born April 7, 2002) is a Romanian-American singer and soprano. She was the winner of season six of the Pro TV series "Romania's Got Talent", and later placed sixth in season eleven of "America's Got Talent", both in 2016. Bretan was born in Chicago to parents from Romania. She first began singing when she was six years old. Bretan was taught how to sing by her mother. At age eight, she began singing at Elim Church. Both she
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The Sopranos


2002, "TV Guide" ranked "The Sopranos" fifth on their list of the "Top 50 TV Shows of All Time," while the series was only in its fourth season. In 2007, Channel 4 (UK) named "The Sopranos" the greatest television series of all time. The first season of the series received overwhelmingly positive reviews. Following its initial airing in 1999, "The New York Times" stated, "["The Sopranos"] just may be the greatest work of American popular
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List of The Sopranos characters in the Soprano crime family


up Christopher's experience as a hallucination. A Sicilian Camorra associate of Furio Giunta. Accompanied Furio to Sean and Matt's apartment to collect money for Tony Soprano. They also intimidated the two into giving them $1000 on top of the payment to Soprano. Furio and Gaetano joked about the two being homosexuals, speaking Italian so Sean and Matt did not understand. It is unknown how long Giarizzo stayed in the country or his role in the family as he has not appeared since. Sean Gismonte upon seeing him, refers to
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Birgit Nilsson


180th season at La Scala as Turandot in 1958. She performed at many major opera houses in the world including Vienna, Berlin, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Tokyo, Paris, Buenos Aires, Chicago, and Hamburg. She sang with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the all-Wagner concert that opened the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House in 1973. Nilsson was widely known as the leading Wagnerian soprano of her time, the successor to the great Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad, particularly as Brünnhilde. However,
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Music on The Sopranos


European DVD editions (in case of Season One: only the 16:9 re-issue) contain these altered versions as foreign language dubs as well as the original unaltered English soundtrack in Dolby Digital 5.1. To date, there have been two official soundtrack compilations released in association with "The Sopranos". The first, titled "The Sopranos: Music from the HBO Original Series", was released in 1999, and contains selections from the show's first two seasons. The second, titled "The Sopranos: Peppers & Eggs
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Soprano Home Movies


. "Soprano Home Movies" drew an average of 7.66 million viewers when it first aired on HBO on Sunday April 8, 2007 in the United States. This estimate was done by Nielsen Ratings. This was a significant drop from the 2006 season premiere episode, "Members Only", which attracted 9.47 million viewers and the lowest ratings for a "Sopranos" premiere since the season two opening episode, "Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office...", which drew roughly the same number of viewers as "Soprano Home
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Shawn Smith


of "The Sopranos" (third season, 2001). "Leaving California" and "Wrapped in My Memory" from Smith's solo album "Shield of Thorns" were both featured prominently on the "Long Term Parking" episode of "The Sopranos" (fifth season, 2004). Yet another Shawn Smith related song has been featured on the show: Pigeonhed's "Battle Flag" appeared on the "46 Long" episode (first season, 1999) and was later included on "The Sopranos: Peppers
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The Sopranos (season 1)


The first season of "The Sopranos" aired on HBO from January 10 to April 4, 1999. The first season was released on DVD in region 1 on December 12, 2000, and on Blu-ray on November 24, 2009. The season introduces DiMeo Crime Family Capo Tony Soprano and his family, as well as his troubled relationship with his mother Livia. Also troubled is his relationship with his Uncle Junior, who becomes locked in a power struggle with Tony after the death of the Crime Family Boss, Jackie
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Jorge Grundman


two prizes from the Boston Metro Opera. His monodrama "Four Sad Seasons Over Madrid" for Soprano, Violin, Piano and String Orchestra received in 2014 the BMO Concert Award; and his monodrama "God's Sketches" for String Quartet, Soprano and Mallets has received the BMO Director's Choice Award. In addition, many of his music has been nominated directly or included in award nomination albums, like in 2013 the award nomination as Best Classical Album for "God's Sketches" performed by Brodsky Quartet, Susana Cordón and
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Clara Dow


the repertory touring company in November 1908, remaining with them for a year as principal soprano. "The Times" thought her "quite captivating" as Patience. As the repertory seasons were the last seasons of Gilbert and Sullivan operas directed by Gilbert, Dow and Elsie Spain, who played soprano roles in the 1908–09 seasons, were the last D'Oyly Carte principal sopranos personally trained by W. S. Gilbert. At the end of that tour, Dow left the company and married an aviator, Wilfred Foulis. At the time, the
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Tony Soprano


"capo") and ""de facto"" boss of the DeCavalcante crime family. Bobby Boriello and Mark Damiano II portrayed Soprano as a child in one episode each; Danny Petrillo played the character as a teenager in three episodes. In the first season, Tony is a "capo" in the DiMeo crime family. Between the first and second seasons, he is promoted to street boss, a position he retains until the sixth season; his uncle Corrado "Junior" Soprano is the official boss up until early
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Beverly Sills


incisiveness and a vivid sense of text." Soprano Leontyne Price was "flabbergasted at how many millions of things she can do with a written scale." Her vocal range, in performance, extended from F3 to F6, and she said she could sometimes hit a G6 in warm up. These are the roles that Sills performed on stage or for television or radio. Sills received many honors and awards from the 1970s through her final years. Here are a list of her major awards, divided by category: Sills was
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Grant Park Music Festival


band The Decemberists. Other performers include pianist Valentina Lisitsa, soprano Jonita Lattimore, baritone Nathan Gunn and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore. The Joffrey Ballet also performed with the Festival. The principal conductor is Carlos Kalmar. Guests in the 2007 season included Marc-André Hamelin, Russell Braun, Erin Wall, Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus and many more performing the works of composers such as Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Leo Brouwer, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Tan Dun and Ferruccio Busoni. The 2010s included a scheduled Grant Park
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The Sopranos


Chase had conducted interviews and tours with both, which strongly inspired some characters, settings, and storylines portrayed in "The Sopranos". On December 19, 2007, a federal jury ruled against Baer, dismissing all of his claims. Many of the actors on "The Sopranos" are Italian Americans, like the characters whom they portray, and many had appeared together in films and television series before joining the cast of "The Sopranos". The series shares a total of 27 actors with the 1990 Martin Scorsese gangster film
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List of awards and nominations received by The Sopranos


at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. "The Sopranos" received 23 Golden Globe Award nominations, winning five of them. The show won four of its five nominations for its first season, while three of the main cast members were honored, respectively, and the series winning Best Television Series — Drama in 2000. "The Sopranos" was honored with two Peabody Awards: one in 1999 for its first season and one in 2000 for its second season. Upon receiving the award in 2000, it was noted that "Combining
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Too Many Sopranos


and traditional staging. The Sandman is taken fully from "Hänsel und Gretel", 'Unnamed Bass' is a reference to the fact that basses can be fairly anonymous in the opera community. The piece has become a popular one for opera workshops because of the many soprano parts and its relative brevity. Four sopranos are brought to heaven's gates, but are stopped by St. Peter. Room has opened up in the heavenly choir for only one soprano. Each auditions in her own way with an aria that exemplifies the traditions
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June Anderson


doubt there's been a markedly better Norma since Callas and Sutherland. The "Toronto Star" wrote of Anderson's portrayal in "Norma":[T]he title role is a jewel for any soprano diva's crown. . . .And how very special that one of the great contemporary Normas, American soprano June Anderson, is present to bring down the house. . . . Anderson, a late addition to the cast, has a remarkable dramatic presence. . . Anderson captures the full conflict that besets Norma...The American soprano also captures the
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Tony Soprano


1959, to Livia and Johnny Soprano. His father was a "capo" in the DiMeo crime family. He grew up living with his parents and two sisters, Janice and Barbara, in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey. Tony's paternal grandfather, Corrado Soprano Sr., was from Ariano in the Province of Avellino who immigrated to the United States in 1911; he was a master stonemason who helped to build a church in Tony's old neighborhood. In adulthood, Tony recalls how Johnny used Janice as
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List of The Sopranos characters in the Soprano crime family


United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Mitchell H. Cohen United States Courthouse in Camden, New Jersey with Junior, who comments on how ""You get a full chicken and it's enough to bring home and get two meals"", when Junior complains about how they missed the "early bird special". Later in the episode when Junior is hospitalized after falling down steps, he tells his lawyer, Harold Melvoin: ""tell Beppy to bring the chicken home"", signaling the possibility of
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Christopher (The Sopranos)


Gabriella lectures Father Phil about how much the mob wives, especially Carmela, have given to the parish, and says he had no right to bring in a guest speaker who intended to shame them about how they make a living. Meanwhile, Paulie begins to create tension between the Soprano and Lupertazzi families when he tells Johnny about Ralphie's joke about his wife, and also about Tony's purchase, and quick turnaround, of Junior's warehouse. Johnny demands a share of the warehouse profit, to which Tony agrees; he
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Whistle register


C or 1046.5 Hz) to two Gs above (G or 3136 Hz). Some children, however, can produce pitches that surpass the upper limit of the keyboard. In European classical music, the whistle register is used primarily by coloratura sopranos. Many parts in the coloratura soprano repertoire extend beyond "high C" and often extend up to high F (F or 1396.9 Hz). Although many coloratura sopranos use whistle tone vocal production to sing these notes, some operatic sopranos are capable of singing up to "high
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Bruce Adolphe


piano works from Mr. Adolphe: "Chopin Dreams" and "Seven Thoughts Considered as Music", both of which Grante recorded for Naxos American Masters series and released in November 2017. In 2019, Adolphe's "I saw how fragile and infinitely precious the world is" for mezzo-soprano, cello, and recorded sounds from space (provided by NASA) and planet Earth was recorded by mezzo-soprano Theodora Hanslowe and cellist Sophie Shao and later premiered (in live performance) by mezzo-soprano Kady Evanyshyn and Ms.
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James Manos Jr.


James Manos Jr. is an American film and television writer and producer. Manos worked as a co-producer and writer on the first season of "The Sopranos". In 1999, Manos won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for his work on the episode "College" of "The Sopranos". The award was shared with his co-writer, "The Sopranos" creator David Chase. He then completed two seasons as consulting producer on "The Shield". He developed, produced,
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Meadow Soprano


Meadow Mariangela Soprano, played by Jamie-Lynn Sigler, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series "The Sopranos". In the early seasons, Meadow is shown as a smart, spoiled, party-goer, over-dramatic, in-denial, and in some ways, a troubled kid. In the later seasons, she would later learn the consequences and reality of life, money, education, politics, and relationships. Her little brother, A. J., would later go through all these phases as
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Livia


. A heavily fictionalized version of Livia appeared in the 5th and 6th seasons of "". This version of Livia is in fact the daughter of Xena, raised by Augustus to be the military champion of Rome. Nancy Marchand portrayed Livia Soprano in the first and second seasons (1999-2000) of the HBO series "The Sopranos". Like her namesake, Livia Soprano influences the family’s affairs through schemes and intrigues, which culminate in her plot to have Tony killed. Marchand died shortly after the conclusion of the
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List of The Sopranos characters in the Soprano crime family


"Soprano Home Movies", Tony mentioned to Bobby Jr. how it was unusual that Bobby Jr. had never whacked anyone, considering his father was "the 'Terminator' in that respect", suggesting that Bobby Sr. was responsible for numerous homicides before his retirement to Miami, Florida in 1993. He did not like the humidity in Florida but enjoyed playing shuffleboard. Bobby Sr. told his son that he didn't want him involved in mob life and wished that he himself could have just stayed in the shop and cut
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Bel canto


towards the end of the 19th century, as did such new sub-categories as lyric coloratura soprano, dramatic soprano and spinto soprano, and various grades of tenor, stretching from lyric through spinto to heroic. These classificatory changes have had a lasting effect how singing teachers designate voices and opera house managements cast productions. There was, however, no across-the-board uniformity among 19th-century bel canto adherents in passing on their knowledge and instructing students. Each had their own training regimes and pet notions. Fundamentally,
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The Sopranos (season 6)


debatably cruel to audience expectations but wholly committed to its thematic integrity." In "Time Out New York", Andrew Johnston placed "The Sopranos" at the top of his list of the best TV of 2007, stating: "Even before the final episode aired, the last half-season of David Chase's Garden State gangland saga embodied everything that was great about "The Sopranos". Then came the Chase-directed 'Made in America,' which miraculously restored Journey's street cred and created the kind of
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The Blue Comet


story credits) and Weiner's 12th and final. The penultimate episode marks the fifth time Chase and Weiner have collaborated on a "The Sopranos" script, following "The Test Dream" of season five and "Kaisha" (also with Winter), "Soprano Home Movies" (also with Frolov and Schneider) and "Kennedy and Heidi" of season six. The research study that Dr. Kupferberg introduces to Dr. Melfi, which she later carefully reads and which makes her decide to finally drop Tony Soprano as her patient
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Mezzo-soprano


175 Hz) and as high as "high C" (C, 1047 Hz). The mezzo-soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, lyric, and dramatic mezzo-soprano. While mezzo-sopranos typically sing secondary roles in operas, notable exceptions include the title role in Bizet's "Carmen", Angelina (Cinderella) in Rossini's "La Cenerentola", and Rosina in Rossini's "Barber of Seville" (all of which are also sung by sopranos). Many 19th-century
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Monmouth Civic Chorus


are: MCC has worked with numerous vocal soloists, directors, and composers who have moved on to the world stage, several of whom are profiled on the Chorus website. Guest artists featured in MCC concerts and solo recitals include mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano Barbara Dever, bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, soprano Angela Meade, soprano Jo Ellen Miller, soprano Jody Sheinbaum, tenor Steven Tharp, and soprano Donita Volkwijn. Eric Einhorn, a director at the Metropolitan Opera and many other stages, directed MCC
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Members Only (The Sopranos)


"Members Only" is the 66th episode of the HBO series "The Sopranos", and the first of the show's sixth season. Written by Terence Winter and directed by Tim Van Patten, it aired originally on March 12, 2006. Nearly two years have passed since Johnny Sack's arrest. Janice Soprano is raising a new daughter with Bobby Baccalieri, who has taken up model railroading as a hobby. Meadow Soprano continues her relationship with Finn DeTrolio. A.J. Soprano is now attending college. Adriana La Cerva is remembered
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Jessye Norman


of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range." Some vocal critics say that Norman is not a dramatic soprano but in fact has a rare soprano voice type known as a Falcon. The Falcon voice is closer to a mezzo-soprano timbre, but closer to a dramatic soprano tessitura. Falcon roles specifically refer to parts written to be sung by sopranos instead of mezzos, as was written for Falcon. The roles are thus often sung by lyric mezzos. This mix of sound is why many
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List of The Sopranos characters in the Soprano crime family


The DiMeo crime family, later referred to as the Soprano crime family, is a fictional Mafia family from the HBO series "The Sopranos", and will appear in the prequel film "The Many Saints of Newark". It is thought to be loosely based on the DeCavalcante crime family, a real New Jersey Mafia family. The DiMeo crime family consists of an administration and six crews. The following includes a list of fictional characters from "The Sopranos" that are associated with the DiMeo crime family. The DiMeo crime
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Soprano


and tend to "count less" in roles (although some Verdi, Strauss and Wagner roles call for stronger singing below the staff). However, rarely is a soprano simply unable to sing a low note in a song within a soprano role. Low notes can be reached with a lowered position of the larynx. The high extreme, at a minimum, for non-coloratura sopranos is "soprano C" (C two octaves above middle C), and many roles in the standard repertoire call for C or D.
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The Sopranos (season 6)


November 7, 2006, and on Blu-ray on December 19, 2006. The second part was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 23, 2007. The first part of the season focuses on the possibility of redemption as various members of the New Jersey crime family are offered chances to change their behavior, especially mob boss Tony Soprano, who confronts a spiritual awakening following a near-death experience. The second part focuses on the Soprano crime family suffering through the consequences of their actions as they come into
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The Sopranos (season 2)


strained relationship with their mother Livia and each other continues. Meadow is accepted into college, but her personal life intersects with Tony's crime life for the first time. Former boss Jackie Aprile's brother Richie is released from prison and causes trouble for Tony and his business. onlyinclude /onlyinclude The second season of "The Sopranos" received universal acclaim from critics—garnering a 97 out of 100 on Metacritic, and a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The latter aggregator reports a critical consensus of ""The Sopranos"
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Dwight Harris


Special Agent Dwight Harris, played by Matt Servitto, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series "The Sopranos". He is an FBI agent assigned to Tony Soprano's case. A minor character during the first five seasons of the series, he plays a pivotal role throughout the sixth season as a "de facto" ally to Tony Soprano in his war against Phil Leotardo. Harris is an FBI Supervisor Agent-in-Charge specializing in investigation of the DiMeo crime family with the FBI's Newark Organized Crime Division
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with Dante Greco, explained to Christopher how his fiancée Adriana La Cerva was in a car accident with Tony Soprano the night before at 2 am. Helped Frankie Cortese restrain Christopher when he showed up at the Bing with a gun looking for Tony. Escorted Chris to the New Jersey Meadowlands with Cortese where Tony almost shot him. Corky fails to mention that the hijacked load does not have the tax stamps to the Newark, New Jersey bodega that purchased them, on the cigarette cartons which are confiscated at the New Jersey-Pennsylvania
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Giulio Cesare


the most popular of Handel's operas, with more than two hundred productions in many countries. In modern productions, the title role, written for a castrato, is sung by a contralto, mezzo-soprano, or, more frequently in recent years, a countertenor. The roles of Tolomeo and Nireno are normally sung by countertenors. The role of Sesto, written for a soprano, is now usually sung by a mezzo-soprano. The work is considered by many to be one of Handel's finest Italian operas,
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Mezzo-soprano


and coloratura mezzo-sopranos. This voice has less vocal facility than the coloratura mezzo-soprano. The range of the dramatic mezzo-soprano is from approximately the F below middle C (F, 175 Hz) to the G two octaves above middle C (G, 784 Hz). The dramatic mezzo-soprano can sing over an orchestra and chorus with ease and was often used in the 19th century opera, to portray older women, mothers, witches and evil characters. Verdi wrote many roles for this voice in
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Soprano


, has a lighter vocal weight than other soprano voices with a brighter timbre. Many young singers start out as soubrettes, but, as they grow older and the voice matures more physically, they may be reclassified as another voice type, usually either a light lyric soprano, a lyric coloratura soprano, or a coloratura mezzo-soprano. Rarely does a singer remain a soubrette throughout her entire career. A soubrette's range extends approximately from middle C (C) to "high D" (D). The tessitura of
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List of awards and nominations received by The Sopranos


award. "The Sopranos" received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations for its first season (4 wins), 18 for its second season (1 win), 22 for its third season (4 wins), 13 for its fourth season (4 wins), 20 for its fifth season (4 wins), 7 for the first part of its sixth season (1 win), and 15 for the second part of its sixth and final season (3 wins). In total, the show received 111 nominations
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The Sopranos (The Sopranos episode)


phone call and learned that HBO did like the pilot and ordered a full season, all of which happened about two hours before the deadline for accepting the other network's deal. Chase was relieved as if "let out of jail. It was like a reprieve from the governor." "The Sopranos" is the first of only two episodes directed by Chase. The other is the series finale, "Made in America". Although this episode is titled "The Sopranos" on the DVD, Blu-ray and
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Mandolin-banjo


The mandolin-banjo is a hybrid instrument, combining a banjo body with the neck and tuning of a mandolin or violin (depending on whether fretted or not and how many strings it has). It is a soprano banjo. It has been independently invented in more than one country, being called banjolin and banjourine in English-speaking countries, banjoline and bandoline in France, and the Cümbüş in Turkey. The instrument has the same scale length as a mandolin (about 14 inches); with 4 courses of strings tuned
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Zabern Affair


with a long knife, and 20 years old - A hero and a chocolate-eater, and still not a single hair in his mustache. He stalks in Saverne's long alleys and crows in soprano - How long will the child be left alone without supervision? - The matter has become of utmost urgency! - That is the kind that we need so many of! - He leads the corps! And deeply moved, his people are seen to dive for enemies, deep in every privy. Since in the end
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Øyvind Torvund


"Forest Construction" (chamber ensemble), "Krull Quest" (cello, electronics) and "The Stacks " (quartertone marimba or cello and elecronics). Although some of Torvund's works, such as the Nono and Scelsi inspired orchestral piece "How Sound Travels" (2006), are easily located under the umbrella of contemporary classical music, many of his pieces combine sounds and concepts from other musical traditions. In "Power Art" (2006), for soprano, guitar and 2-stringed bass, the bass
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Junior Soprano


a more considerate and humorous side of him in the later seasons and reveals a more sensitive side during his illness and house arrest. According to series creator David Chase the name Junior was taken from one of his own older cousins. In season one it is stated that Junior is 70 years old, placing his birth date in 1928 or 1929. Corrado Soprano, Jr. is the son of Corrado and Mariangela D'Agostino Soprano, who were from Ariano in the Province of Avellino and immigrated to the United States in 1911. Junior is
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List of The Sopranos characters – Friends and family


The story was to provide him with an alibi for the killing of Joe Peeps. When Tony B. asks Meadow how his daughter did in school while attending the private Catholic school Verdum Dei with Meadow and AJ Soprano, she replied "Straight A's". She shares a high intelligence, just like her father Tony whose IQ was measured at 158. Daughter of Pat Blundetto and cousin to Tony Soprano, Tony Blundetto and Christopher Moltisanti. Chris tells Tony B that the farm had been a fun place growing up until Louise moved
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Mad Men (season 4)


accomplished storytellers than myself that this season was among the series' best. But I have been deeply ambivalent about the episodes". Deggans also criticized the lack of focus on race, as well as the show's attempts at unpredictability, comparing it to "The Sopranos". He did, however, praise the character development of Peggy Olson. The fourth season was celebrated with 19 nominations at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (the most nominations the series has ever received from the Emmys), as well as many other industry
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Made in America (The Sopranos)


in March 2018 as a prequel titled "The Many Saints of Newark". It was then-HBO chairman Chris Albrecht who suggested to Chase to conclude the series with the sixth season. As with every episode of the season, the plot outline of "Made in America" was developed by Chase and his writing staff, which for the final season consisted of executive producers Terence Winter and Matthew Weiner, and supervising producers and writing team Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider. Frequent episode director Tim Van Patten also provided Chase with some
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Oberto (opera)


, who does suggest that "in this shape-shifting tendency, the opera was, of course, very much of its time." In his recollections in 1881 (quoted in Budden) following his return to Milan from Busseto in 1838, Verdi describes how he was invited to meet the La Scala impresario, Bartolomeo Merelli, who had heard a conversation about the music of the opera between soprano Giuseppina Strepponi and Giorgio Ronconi in which she praised it. Merelli then offered to put on "Oberto" during the 1839 season
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Francesco Tamagno


married, Tamagno possessed an affable personality in addition to a shrewd business brain and a careful attitude to money. Soprano Nellie Melba's most recent biographer, Ann Blainey, recounts how Melba reacted to Tamagno's penny-pinching when she twice encountered demonstrations of it during the 1894-1895 New York Met season: "His astounding voice was said to have 'the metallic penetration of an eight-inch [artillery] shell', but at heart he remained a simple peasant, and his peasant-like parsimony was a source
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A Ceremony of Carols


"Deo Gracias" have the choir reflecting harp-like effects by employing a canon at the first in stretto. The original 1942 publication was written for SSA (Soprano, Soprano, Alto) children's choir. In 1943, an SATB (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) arrangement was published for a full choir. Many of the movements are written as rounds or call-and-response pieces – lyrically simple for the sake of the children performing. The SATB arrangement shows these origins quite clearly throughout many of
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Musical instrument


: Some instruments fall into more than one category: for example, the cello may be considered tenor, baritone or bass, depending on how its music fits into the ensemble, and the trombone may be alto, tenor, baritone, or bass and the French horn, bass, baritone, tenor, or alto, depending on the range it is played in. Many instruments have their range as part of their name: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone horn, alto flute, bass guitar, etc. Additional adjectives
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Paterson, New Jersey


in the first season of "The Sopranos" in the episode "Pax Soprana" as the place where Junior Soprano's friend, Capri's grandson, committed suicide after taking poor designer drugs; As a favor, Junior Soprano had Mikey Palmice and another individual toss the dealer, Rusty Irish, over the falls. Some interior shots for the show were filmed in the unused Barnert Hospital. "The Sopranos" also shot a scene at Ralph Piccolo Pizza and renamed it "UF-FA'S Pizzeria". The New Jersey
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Tony Soprano


Anthony John Soprano (born 1959) is a fictional character and the protagonist in the HBO television drama series "The Sopranos" (1999–2007), portrayed by James Gandolfini. Usually referred to as Tony, the Italian-American character was conceived by "The Sopranos" creator and showrunner David Chase, who was also largely responsible for the character's story arc throughout the show's six seasons. The character is loosely based on real-life New Jersey mobster Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo, a former "caporegime" (
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Bobby Baccalieri


his first two seasons on the show, Schirripa wore a fat suit to fit the role. In the episode "In Camelot", Bobby Baccalieri Jr. attends Livia Soprano's funeral and says that he was "very distraught" over hearing of Livia Soprano's passing. In "Soprano Home Movies," when discussing Bobby Baccalieri after the fight, Tony thought he was 42 or 43 making him born in 1964 or 1965. Bobby Sr. fathered Bobby Jr. at 31 or 32 years old. In the episode "Soprano Home
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Falsetto


a falsetto register. McKinney, who expressed alarm that many books on the art of singing completely ignore or gloss over the issue of female falsetto or insist that women do not have falsetto, argues that many young female singers substitute falsetto for the upper portion of the modal voice. He believes that this failure to recognize the female falsetto voice has led to the misidentification of young contraltos and mezzo-sopranos as sopranos, as it is easier for these lower voice types to sing in the soprano tessitura using their falsetto register. Use
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The Sopranos


choices and set designs, and do extensive but uncredited rewrites of episodes written by others. Brad Grey served as executive producer alongside Chase but had no creative input on the show. Many members of the creative team behind "The Sopranos" were handpicked by Chase, some being old friends and colleagues of his; others were selected after interviews conducted by producers of the show. Many of the show's writers worked in television prior to joining the writing staff of "The Sopranos". Writing team and married couple Robin Green and
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List of The Sopranos episodes


remaining nine episodes ran from April to June 2007. HBO also released the two parts of the sixth season as separate DVD box sets. This effectively turns the second part into a short seventh season, though the show's producers and HBO don't describe it as such. All six seasons are available on DVD in Regions 1, 2, 3, and 4. Unlike most broadcast and cable networks that put their television programs on a four-month hiatus between seasons, "The Sopranos" took longer hiatuses between seasons.
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True Blood (season 1)


books when Ball approached her. He said she chose to work with him, though, because "[Ball] really 'got' me. That's how he convinced me to go with him. I just felt that he understood what I was doing with the books." Ball wrote and directed the pilot episode, double Emmy winner Scott Winant, "Red Rock West" writer/director John Dahl, "Heathers" director Michael Lehmann, former "Deadwood" director Daniel Minahan, "The Sopranos" director Nick
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Livia Soprano


") that Livia suffered from Irritable bowel syndrome all her life. Janice, during a conversation with Carmela, calls into question whether or not her mother loves them. She goes on to say that her therapist explained to her that Livia did indeed love them, but did not know how to express it. During the sixth season episode "Mayham" when Tony is comatose from a gunshot wound, he has a vivid dream that ends with Tony being beckoned into a house by his dead cousin Tony Blundetto; a woman who
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List of The Sopranos characters


agrees to cancel Tony's $6,000 tab at the restaurant. Artie agrees but suggests that Tony knew how the whole thing would play out from the beginning (Artie would get suckered and fail; Tony would benefit twice by collecting on Jean-Philippe's debt, and getting his restaurant tab erased). Tony becomes irately indignant over this suggestion and storms out, telling Artie not to tell anyone about either their arrangement or the suicide attempt. The two do not speak to each other for the rest of Season 4 and into
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Mary Howe (singer)


Mary Howe (married names, Mary Howe-Lavin and Mary Howe Burton; 1870-1952) was an American operatic soprano, well known in Germany in the 1880s and 1890s. She inherited her musical talents from her father, a choir leader and chorister, and received early training from a brother, who was a pianist. Howe retired from the stage in 1905 and died in 1952. Mary Howe was born at Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1870. Of New England ancestry, her father was Caleb Lysander Howe, a
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Pli selon pli


1957. In 1959 he wrote "Improvisation III" for soprano, instrumental ensemble and a large group of percussion, as well as "Tombeau", for soprano and large orchestra. In 1960, he completed "Don" in a version for soprano and piano. In 1962, he rescored this movement for soprano and orchestra, and also rescored "Improvisation I", completing the work in its initial form. As he did with so many of his compositions, Boulez returned to the work and revised it. In the
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Johnny Weissmuller


estimated $2,000,000 and established himself as what many movie historians consider the definitive Tarzan. Although not the first Tarzan in movies (that was Elmo Lincoln), he was the first to be associated with the now traditional ululating, yodeling Tarzan yell. During an appearance on television's "The Mike Douglas Show" in the 1970s, Weissmuller explained how the famous yell was created. Recordings of three vocalists were spliced together to get the effecta soprano, an alto and a hog caller. Edgar Rice Burroughs himself paid oblique tribute to
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Patrick Summers


Prince"); Mark Adamo; Michael Daugherty; and R. Murray Schafer, among others. Summers is featured on many audio and video recordings, including the 2002 audio recording "Bel Canto" with soprano Renée Fleming and the Orchestra of St. Luke's (Grammy Award). Summers's book "The Spirit of This Place: How Music Illuminates the Human Spirit" is forthcoming in November 2018 from University of Chicago Press. In addition, he has contributed over 40 articles to "Opera Cues", the official program book
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Trill (music)


usually a feature of an ornamented solo line, but choral or chorus trills do appear. Despite the trill being written in many works for voice, a singer with an even, rapid trill is a rarity. Opinion is divided as to if and how well a trill can be taught or learnt, though mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne frequently stated that she gained her trill by a commonly taught exercise, alternating between two notes, starting slowly and increasing velocity over time. The director of the Rossini Opera Festival, Alberto Zedda has
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Zuzana Vačková


Dezső Rancsó, Roman Matisko, Peter Mankovecký, Jozef Domonkoš, Maroš Tvarožek. They all graduated in 1991, some of them with the graduate performance of the play "The Bald Soprano", where Vačková played the role of Mrs. Martin. "“After reading the script, I couldn't imagine how we could possibly perform this play, it made no sense. We went through an interesting development, during which we tried many variants, picked out the best ones, and finally arrived at this final one, which is
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Soprano Home Movies


her. Back home, Tony watches a "Soprano Home Movies" DVD given to him by Janice as a birthday present: himself and Janice, children playing. "Soprano Home Movies" was written by four of the show's five principal season six writers: supervising producers and writing team Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, series creator and showrunner David Chase and executive producer Matthew Weiner, who had been promoted from co-executive producer before the production of "Soprano Home Movies" began. The four developed the episode's story
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Cleaver (The Sopranos)


Cleaver is a metafictional film within a TV-series that serves as an important plot element toward the end of the HBO television drama series "The Sopranos". Although very little film material is actually shown in the series, its planning and development are discussed at large throughout multiple seasons of the show. The extent to which Sopranos character Christopher Moltisanti mixes confidential and personal information about the Soprano mob family into the story elements of Cleaver is the focal point throughout its development. After the project eventually materializes, Cleaver can be categorized
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The Sopranos (season 6)


rating with an average score of 9.68/10 based on 36 reviews with the following critical consensus: ""The Sopranos"' final season craftily builds to its anticipated climax with more of the dark humor and heartfelt characterizations that made it one of television's strongest series." The second half of the season has an 83% approval rating with an average score of 7.75/10 based on 30 reviews with the following critical consensus: "America's first crime family bows out in a chilling cut to black during a meditative final season that is
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The Sopranos (season 4)


The fourth season of the HBO drama series "The Sopranos" began airing on September 15, 2002 and concluded on December 8, 2002, consisting of thirteen episodes. The fourth season was released on DVD in region 1 on October 28, 2003. The story of season four focuses on the marriage between Tony and Carmela, as Tony engages in an affair with his uncle's nurse Svetlana and Carmela finds herself infatuated with one of Tony's soldiers, Furio Giunta. The increasing tension between Tony and Ralph Cifaretto comes to a
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The Sopranos


and John Magaro are confirmed as joining the cast. In March 2019, a release date of September 25, 2020, was confirmed. The first four seasons of "The Sopranos" were released on VHS in five-volume box sets, which lacked bonus features. All six seasons were released as DVD box sets, with the final season released in two parts; two different versions of the complete series were also released. The sixth season (both parts 1 and 2) was also released on Blu-ray Disc and
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The Voice: la plus belle voix (season 8)


The eighth season of is being broadcast from on TF1. It is also rebroadcast the next day on TFX. It is presented by Nikos Aliagas. Season 8 began later than the usual period of " The Voice " because Soprano and Jenifer were on tour until May, and were unavailable for filming the live sections. The live sections will instead take place between the end of May and the beginning of June. Julien Clerc, Jenifer, Mika and Soprano are the four coaches of the show. This season is under the sign
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The Sopranos (season 2)


The second season of "The Sopranos" aired on HBO from January 16 to April 9, 2000. The second season was released on DVD in region 1 on November 6, 2001. The story of the season focuses on Tony's growing mistrust of one of his closest friends Big Pussy Bonpensiero, who is revealed to be an FBI informant. Dr. Melfi continues meeting with Tony despite her growing disgust of his actions and contemplates the nature of their relationship. Tony's sister Janice also returns to New Jersey, and their collectively
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The Sopranos (season 3)


The third season of the HBO drama series "The Sopranos" began airing on March 4, 2001 and concluded on May 20, 2001, consisting of thirteen episodes. The third season was released on DVD in region 1 on August 27, 2002. The story of season three focuses on the relationship between Tony and his children — Meadow, as she begins her first year at Columbia University, and Anthony Jr., who is having behavioral troubles in high school. Tony's relationship with his aging mother, Livia, is brought
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The Sopranos (season 5)


The fifth season of "The Sopranos" aired on HBO from March 7 to June 6, 2004. The fifth season was released on DVD in region 1 on June 7, 2005. The story of season five focuses on the return of two prominent members of the DiMeo family, Tony Blundetto and Feech La Manna, who are released from lengthy stays in prison and struggle to reintegrate themselves back within the family and the life of crime. Several prominent members of the Lupertazzi family also return from prison, and the subsequent power
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List of The Sopranos episodes


"The Sopranos", a television drama series created by David Chase, premiered on the premium television channel HBO in the United States on January 10, 1999, and ended on June 10, 2007. The series consists of a total of 86 episodes over six seasons. Each episode is approximately 50 minutes long. The first five seasons each consist of thirteen episodes, and the sixth season twenty-one. HBO broadcast the sixth season in two parts. The first twelve episodes ran from March to June 2006, and the
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