The erratic comprimario singing in the Prokofiev may have been partly attributable to the company's otherwise admirable policy of engaging young local singers for such roles.

But he says there is still a general reluctance to engage black male singers for the long term.

Berlioz engaged 350 players and singers for the concerts and held sectional rehearsals at the Salle Herz.

He travelled all over Europe to engage singers and learn the music of other composers, and thus he had among the widest acquaintance of other styles of any composer.

Ordinary concerts such as engage ballet singers, denote that disagreeable companions and ungrateful friends will be met with.

And how are we to view a transposition that was not only clearly not made to benefit the soloist, but also engages other singers as well as many more measures than the aria itself?

"When we go to engage singers, we have overlapping dates with Glimmerglass or Santa Fe," he said.

For the first triennial Norwich musical festival of 1824 he had trained the chorus, engaged the band and singers, and made out the programme.

In those churches with higher musical budgets, the director of music has the resources to engage professional singers and instrumentalists, both students and adults.

Each year he engages top musicians, singers and dancers of Greece for a "Sirtaki - Tour" through Austria.