NIHAL FONSEKA – international tenor Nihal was a star athlete and boxer at St. Peter’s College Colombo in the 50s. He always won the Pole Vault event at the sports meet. Nihal took the leading role iunder Douglas Ferdinand’s direction in “Trial by Jury” opera presented by SPC. It was a huge success. Nihal was Sri Lanka’s leading tenor who turned international in the sixties going forward. Immigrating to Canada in the late sixties, Nihal has lived in Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto. Warm wishes to Nihal and his wife Caroleve! Please take a moment to listen to Nihal’s rendition of AVE MARIA sung at the famed Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto – a concert hall located downtown in the city’s entertainment district, it is home to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Nihal Fonseka – Ave Maria (J.S. Bach/C. Gounod) Click here to receive your free copy ...
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Edger Hubert the Crooner entertainer cabaret performer – by Patrick Ranasinghe Edger Hubert Medley Edger Hubert the Crooner entertainer cabaret performer in the 1950-1969’s with Donovan Andres Show circuit and at the “Stadium” and Galle Face, Mt Lavinia, GOH, Hotels and at all the corporate Dancers at Christmas New Year Dancers. This a only rare home and church recording in Canada a friend of Nihal Fonseka. Passaway in 2007. Patrick Ranasinghe ...
May 7, 2022
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Bernadette Peters At The Adelaide Cabaret Festival – by Patrick Ranasinghe Bernadette Peters At The Adelaide Cabaret Festival with the Adelaide Art Orchestra. Bernadette was born Bernadette Lazzara on February 28, 1948 in Queens, New York City, to Marguerite (Maltese) and Peter Lazzara, a bread delivery truck driver. She is of Sicilian descent. Bernadette first performed on the stage as a child and then a teenage actor in the 1960s, and in film and television in the 1970s. She was praised for this early work and for appearances on The Muppet Show (1976), The Carol Burnett Show (1991) and in other television work, and for her roles in films like Silent Movie (1976), The Jerk (1979), Pennies from Heaven (1981) and Annie (1982). In the 1980s, she returned to the theatre, where she became one of the best-known Broadway stars over the next three decades. She also has recorded six solo ...
Apr 9, 2022
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