simpleton
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Boris’ political foe, the Boyar Prince Shuisky, was the powerful tenor Yevgeny Akimov, who has graduated from singing the Simpleton when Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted a concert performance of “Boris” at the Hollywood Bowl in 2007.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2018
Anthony made his Met debut as the Simpleton in Mussorsky's "Boris Godunov" on March 6, 1954, with George London in the title role.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2012
In a 1942 essay, “Anton Bruckner: Simpleton or Mystic?,” the British critic Geoffrey Sharp adopted Haas’s belief that Bruckner’s apparent personal naïveté was the key to understanding the textual situation.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2011
But as the prolog dragged into the first act and the first act into the second, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles cast a thick pall over its audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Simpleton, are you waiting for that?" the Deemster shouted, with a contemptuous sweep of the hand.
From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir
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