1.   The singer has had a lot of problems in her personal life.

2.   The lead singer had a Mohican haircut and lots of chains and zips.

3.   Also, the Italian singers have a special feeling for the language.

4.   And American singers have a perverse penchant for singing their own native language as if it were Swahili, twisting vowels into the strangest squawks and bawls.

5.   And her singing had that innate link between the flow of the words and the flow of the melody that only Italian singers have.

6.   Both singers have new albums out that are solid additions to their ongoing catalogs.

7.   But Cook has more left than most singers have ever had.

8.   But it was first produced at a time when black opera singers had far fewer opportunities than they have today.

9.   But the Glyndebourne production sidesteps the problem entirely, intercutting a frazzled-looking stage manager who looks about haplessly, as if the singer had missed his cue.