Sayão

[ sah-you, -yah-oo; Portuguese sah-youn ]

noun

1. Bi·dú [bee, -doo, bih-, doo], Balduina de Oliveira Sayão, 1902–1999, Brazilian soprano.

Example Sentences

To take one example, the French chanson “Maman, dites-moi,” a staple of midcentury Met Opera stars like the soprano Bidu Sayao.

From New York Times

Carlos Sayao, Shelton’s Toronto-based lawyer, said her victory before the arbitration court represented “the imposing of important checks and balances on the powers of national Olympic committees over their athletes.”

From New York Times

“She felt she was an expired product in their eyes,” said Carlos Sayao, Shelton’s Toronto-based lawyer.

From New York Times

“We could look at the bones and see what features characterize an embryo, a hatchling, and a young individual when he’s matured,” says coauthor Juliana Sayão, a bone-structure expert at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

From National Geographic

Leonard Warren is potent in the title role, Bidú Sayão is a girlish, nuanced Gilda, and Jussi Bjoerling — appearing at the Met for the first time after World War II — plays the Duke as if he has everything to prove.

From New York Times