Mr Amory said his interest in protecting animals started when he attended a bullfight in Mexico.

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Budrik, a fervent fan of everything from Spanish bullfight music to classic jazz, teamed up with musician George Katsiris, 25, in his venture.

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Around 40 people are now thought to have been injured by the marauding animal at the bullfight in the northern Spanish town of Pamplona.

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The suspenseful interactions among the trio of business-suited workers is artfully staged by director Clare Lizzimore as an actual bullfight, minus the customary brave matador.

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At the Met, Mr. Rhodes's performance will include the showstopping aria in which he dances a mock bullfight with his cape and seduces the gypsy Carmen.

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His father, Pablo Martinez, bred horses for picadors, the horsemen who take part in the preliminaries of a bullfight before the matador appears, provoking the bull to attack them.

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She is put through a mini-bullfight complete with a matador, picadores (lancers on horseback) and banderilleros (who thrust barbed darts into the animal) to test her speed, strength and instinct to charge.

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Watch a traditional bullfight, minus the gore.

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The American premiere of "Bull: The Bullfight Play, " written by Bartlett as a companion piece to last season's off-Broadway hit "Cock", opened Thursday night in a gripping, brutal presentation by Sheffield Theatres, as part of 2013 Brits Off Broadway at 59E59 Theaters.

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That "horn" is the trumpet with which Mr. Alpert climbed the pop charts first with "The Lonely Bull, " the garage recording he made in 1962 after hearing the sounds of a Mexican bullfight, followed by a string of singles in the '60s with his band, the Tijuana Brass.

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