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Milne says her route to success as a soloist gives the lie to frequent claims that opera is an elitist art form.
This is an opera that definitely sings, but perhaps too reticently for those bred on Verdi, Puccini, and Wagner.
The city has a medieval quarter, great pubs, and an annual opera festival of international importance.
The charity will also concentrate on funding the arts through sponsorship of music, ballet, opera and film.
It helps explain why opera and musical theatre are the two largest growing public art forms.
The cultural context of the Indian soap opera was also very easy for Afghans to relate to, she said.
Anyone who has tried to explain a convoluted opera plot to another is glaringly aware of difficulties that may arise.
He has also written an opera and translated Dante's Inferno in order to produce an illustrated book of it.
In the same way that Twin Peaks was David Lynch riffing on the soap opera genre, so does Kurosawa riff on the family drama in Bright Future.
Since then, it has travelled on loan to more than a dozen other opera companies throughout North America.
When Bajazet was created in Verona in 1735, Neapolitan opera had dethroned the almighty Venetian opera.
Are we going to take the narrow view which sees Scottish Opera as an oxymoron, and opera and classical music as not really Scottish?
Its pulsing inventiveness charges the most absurd contrivances with life, just as opera should.
So many collaborators had emptied their diaries to be at the opera house for the rehearsal period.
Much of the opera is swift moving dialogue, but a distinctive feature is Martinu's insertion of slower moving sections.
Given its epic emotions and convoluted plot, the story might better lend itself to opera than ballet.
Their opera is the mysterious and darkly moving tale of what happened after the pied piper left Hamelin.
From hilarious scenes to heart-rending arias, the show promises audiences a fun evening with an original take on opera in all its guises.
Galileo's telescope was similar to a pair of opera glasses in that it used an arrangement of glass lenses to magnify objects.
In 1907, the anti-Semitic faction opposed to him secured his departure from the opera company.
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Not the over-glamorized Hollywood version of the grapple, mind you, with all its muscle-bound 'roid rage and soap opera storylines.
The variations for piano and orchestra, on a romance from Morlacci's opera Tebaldo e Isolina, were destined for the court at Parma.
The dramatic aspects of a Wagner opera performance were unmistakably present.
Arden's fanciful production makes a seemingly unstageable opera into gripping entertainment.
You might not think of St. Louis, Missouri, as a place to go to see opera in the summer.
Suddenly, he found out that singing opera was a lot more fun than singing pop.
A script offers no more to a great moviemaker than an opera libretto does to a great composer.
Carreras resumed his career, gradually returning to the opera stage and the concert platform as well as to the recording studio.
The audience sometimes seems to consist of monied people who go to the opera because that's what people in their socioeconomic position do.
It's bad luck, for example, if you want to listen to the opera on a personal stereo anywhere away from your computer.
Of the four episodes, two deal with the cheeseball soap opera themes of high school hooplah, and two take a heavier turn.
His second novel, All Hat, was a modern horse opera about an ex-con who's forced to pilfer a prize-winning steed.
Poets composed hundreds of verses on the love story and many types of Chinese opera tell the story.
What better way to ease an opera first-timer into the world of the genre than to see this?
If I was a character in a soap opera or a bad romantic novel, I would immediately have assumed he was having an affair.
She recalls a performance by a fading opera star who despite a poor performance was praised to the heavens.
So began the theme music to the worst soap opera in the history of television.
Armstrong takes his protest an intriguing step forward with this album by creating a rock opera informed by disaffection and disillusionment.
These theatres focused on legitimate drama and opera but halls providing popular stage entertainments also began to appear.
Critics who claim opera is not legitimate theater must be silenced by the unforgettable performance that has been preserved here.
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The loudspeakers played the gamut from opera to light jazz and disembodied laughter floated forward from the back of the bookstore.
An opera libretto is something we would like to do, but it is a matter of finding the time.
Few early-music specialists conduct Handel opera with more grace, rhythmic lilt, and care for style than Harry Bicket.
Unlike that of Bohemia in the 19th century, opera in Slovakia did not become identified with the rise of a national movement.
He was always splendid with children and he would amuse them by singing songs from the opera and the music hall.
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is in fact the archetypal hero myth, retold as a rock opera in modern day Los Angeles.
He does not accept that opera is an elitist art form or that it should be scaled down in a bid to reduce the cost.
Only in Britain, where the public cannot tell the difference between a bare-chested belter and a genuine opera singer, have sales held steady.
Sullivan did re-use certain early material which had remained unperformed, including stuff from an early opera The Sapphire Necklace.
The result was a naturalness that is rarely encountered in the opera house.
Her enviable reputation as a concert artist and opera singer has lead her to work with many of the world's leading conductors.
The opera has been around China for more than 400 years, impacting many other genres of folk opera.
In 1851 the famed diva Jenny Lind, known as the Swedish Nightingale, sang at the Academy of Music opera house in Northampton, Mass.
This allowed him to listen to opera and classical music as he read books about nature.
Verdi mavens and lovers of opera in general will surely want this fine recording.
That's how opera fans go about their business, collecting wayside works for the inevitable Wagnerian longueurs.
The storyline of the opera focuses on the heart-rending love story between the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimi, a fragile but resolute girl.
Whenever his celebrated opera performances leave him time, Heppner tries to fit in a recital.
Whilst he was a choral exhibitioner at Cambridge, he sang with the university opera group.
Indeed, if you are not particularly a fan of opera and singing but do like lush tuneful orchestral playing, you should try this.
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Carl Maria von Weber was here in the 1800s, penning most of his eminently revivable opera Silvana in Stuttgart.
Their repertoire covers everything from grand opera to show tunes and folk songs.
Culture flourished in this fecund valley in 1879, when the opera house, decreed a national historic landmark in 1973, first opened.
The test marketing of the sadder-but-wiser Dean began Thursday morning with a well-attended rally in the old-time opera house in Lebanon.
Classical western singing is not relegated to opera alone there is choral and gospel singing too.
The opera suffers from the smallness of its choir and its instrumentalist troupe.
The score is the symphonic poem which Stravinsky extracted from his opera Le Rossignol.
At first, La Scala scheduled Il trovatore, but the tenor, claiming indisposition, suggested Giordano's opera instead.
The opera house burned down in 1995, in part because the adjacent canals had been drained, and the fire boats could not reach the scene.
The intermezzo from his frivolous opera Hary Janos is considered one of his most entertaining scores.
It's more like a soap opera without a script, blurring the line between what is real and what is manufactured for the cameras.
Her character is a daytime soap opera star who has just been shockingly killed off.
The original full score to the opera has disappeared and Bizet's own published vocal score has been largely ignored.
Science fiction, and space opera in particular, has always been about the vast sweep of space, time and future history.
There's a certain subset of opera fans who dismiss Rossini comic operas with a haughty wave.
In the opera he is led on by a succession of sinister characters, all played in Mephistophelean fashion by the same baritone.
The trouble with Orpheus is its new libretto, which seemed determined to turn this charming opera buffa into a crude opera boffola.
Some even used opera glasses, to enhance the illusion that they were examining the details of a living world.
By the age of 13 he had written an opera and was becoming an accomplished pianist.
He prefers to steer away from solo recordings and restricts himself to live performances or complete opera recordings.
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We also had civic buildings, including a courthouse, and as our town was to be a cultural centre there was an opera house and a theatre.
The Rovers Return, being a soap opera pub, has seen its fair share of fisticuffs and flouncing out.
Some practised singing Peking opera and played roles in private circles as amateurs.
It inverts the typical opera prologue, traditionally dedicated to monarchical flattery.
Charles Dibdin is equally frank about the origin of his ballad opera The Waterman.
He tried writing an opera called Leonore, but failed so he rewrote it as Fidelio.
My dad owned the local opera house and was a playwright, my mother, an actress.
He is too concerned with his own efforts to become a successful opera singer.
Fans of this opera and of bel canto opera in general, should find this a rewarding addition to their collection.
When we trained at the indoor pool, opera lilted from the public-address system.
With our later discovery of bel canto opera we suddenly woke up to what we had missed.
But there is no comfort in a continuously constructed carnival of bands and opera singers.
Meanwhile, the English-language opera tradition evolved to incorporate operettas and musical theater.
Suggesting that this is an opera about fidelity, he has made all the characters brides and bridegrooms.
Whether that is a problem of this production or whether of the opera itself I can't say for sure.
It is half-way between a kind of intoned opera and the revenge, betrayal and interaction between men and gods of an Old Icelandic saga.
We have monocles, lorgnettes, opera glasses and other vision aids for all your needs.
But thousands of ordinary people would love the chance to enjoy opera more fully.
All it requires is a fraction of the enterprise that turned a newspaper strip into an opera and now into an unmissable Easter treat.
He talks at length about fantasy and space opera and the various visions of Utopia that permeate science-fiction.
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The astronauts and ground personnel in this space opera provide levelheaded, creative leadership during a harrowing crisis.
It was a European-style city with grand boulevards, classical buildings, a great cathedral and an opera house as well as a theatre.
The twist that he brings to this space opera is blending the sci-fi elements with a look and feel straight out of a Western.
The same is true with the various types of Chinese opera, with Peking opera taking the lead.
There have always been classical and opera snobs who look down on the inferior world of pop and rock.
On the other hand, there's nothing like going to the opera or Shakespearean theatre on a mild dose of magic mushrooms.
Both are fans of the opera and ballet and would like to combine a long weekend of sightseeing with some form of entertainment each night.
This is the story of Emma Albani, a woman from Chambly, Quebec who rose to become one of the late 19th century's greatest opera divas.
Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, musical theatre and opera were bitter, resentful enemies.
By contrast, the outer panels of the triptych are closer to the world of opera than that of oratorio.
He is a controversial and outspoken defender of the operatic form, and a passionate advocate of opera in English.
It was a gesture guaranteed to win public sympathy but, like dynamiting an opera house, it was strictly a negative act of cultural vandalism.
This recording from the International Arts Festival last year is a comic opera about a string quartet on tour.
Radamisto was the first opera that Handel wrote for the fledgling Royal Academy of Music.
Finally, Saskia Willaert writes in some details about the buffo opera singer and the repertory of Italian opera in London.
Indeed, she was no mean composer herself, vide her full-length opera The Smugglers of Penzance.
For the singers, filming a TV opera presents its own particular set of challenges.
His emergence halfway through the novel turns a loony horse opera into a reflection on the loss of rural pride.
We chatted some more and established that we were both opera fans, not just of nice singers who sing nice songs.
If nothing else, the performance reinforced the fact that Dublin needs an opera house.
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The repertoire will not be too taxing and will vary from musicals, light opera and more formal pieces.
The synopsis may help you make sense of the plot, but it's complicated, if still dramatically compelling, in a Baroque opera way.
Scotland's newest soap opera has had a shaky start, derided by the critics for its wooden scripts and dull characters.
With the British soprano as the title character, the opera had a much more believably disturbed young anti-heroine.
Some years ago, I witnessed a glorious soap opera in my balcony, the eternal triangle being the usual cause of it all.
The opera finally saw a stage production in 1951 which received great, though short-lived acclaim.
I will admit, sacrilegiously, to not being terribly fond of Beethoven's opera to begin with.
We would probably prefer that the opera star or the sporting hero or the genius be suitably humble, modest, and generally endearing.
The Irishman was parachuted in from Australia, untested at running an opera house but well intentioned.
The entire opera takes place in some kind of subterranean vault, or perhaps a subway station.
The trick in translating this book into an opera is the essential unnecessariness of opera.
Conceding the point, many opera houses nowadays always flash surtitles above the proscenium.
Stendhal described it as Rossini's greatest opera buffa, but it's possible his opinion was tinged with a little sarcasm.
Either way, opera managers like Barron rather hope there will be a shift in the popular mindset.
She acknowledges she would never have become an opera singer if the company had not given her the opportunity.
The classical music scene languished during the war as symphony orchestras and opera companies lost musicians to military bands.
She's the daughter of an opera singer, and at first she didn't want to go into opera.
As such, this is one aspect of the space opera genre that Vinge retains faithfully in his novels.
Orchestras and opera companies battle on in the face of increasing evidence of public indifference and of diminishing investment.
Rossini's four-act opera has been compressed into 90 minutes and features a cast of seven local actors with musical backgrounds.
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One would have to go back half a century to Benjamin Britten to find a composer whose works are regularly performed by opera companies worldwide.
Instead, he and his wife squatted in an abandoned opera house that had been used by artists preparing work for the exposition.
Chris, Bart, and I have been kicking around the idea of doing a rock opera for four years now.
It was grown-up version of what the high school jocks wore, or one of those kicky show jackets that the Broadway and soap opera people had.
During World War Two, Malta was blasted by steady streams of German bombs and one night during an opera performance, the building was hit.
But it was when she first introduced him to opera that his interest really took wing and became a passion.
Britten used the 12-note system to provide a classic opera of dramatic tension counterpointed by exquisite melody.
On the evening news from France 2 the other day, I saw a little piece on the new opera house in Beijing.
It was founded in 1989 with the aim providing local Swiss audiences with quality opera and cantata performances.
In The Tin Pan Alley Rag Scott Joplin brings his opera Treemonisha to Irving Berlin in hopes of getting him to help get it published.
The beautiful opera house claims to be one of the best in Europe, with perfect acoustics and frescoes painted by Karoly Lotz.
In Australia, the opera companies of Sydney and Melbourne were forcibly merged.
She was in the kitchen when I arrived, simultaneously rabbiting into a mobile phone while watching a soap opera on television.
Therefore, Sand's version of the opera seduction scene, featuring a mysterious Italian coquette, clearly informs d'Agoult's account.
Tosca is an opera in three acts set in Rome about 1800 at a time of revolution.
Audiences were advised to bring opera glasses to view the canvas, surveying the painting as if searching a vista.
While everyone performs well enough, it is only in the closing arias that the opera comes alive.
She gained a reputation as being incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about anything opera and her luscious lyric soprano voice blossomed.
Chelsea Opera Group were performing the opera in English and though Richardson displayed a beautiful lyric voice, she rather swallowed her words.
Many feel she could've gone to greater things as an actress, but it was as an opera singer where her passions truly lay.
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In a technical and physical challenge, the dancers perform Peking opera gestures and movements at the same time as they dance ballet steps.
Great Victoria Street was buzzing with young people in stylish clothes after the opera and bars and restaurants were bursting at the seams.
In the process of translation and adaptation, Verdi's opera took on qualities of its own.
Watching opera on television and attending live opera performances got her interested in taking it up as a career.
Furthermore, his post as the forefather of opera was seriously questioned and negated.
Puccini's Tosca is on Friday and Mozart's opera seria, Idomeneo, is on Saturday.
It represents an avidity to produce a grand modern opera rather than an actual vision of one.
In every corny soap opera or sappy movie, the main characters find themselves shacked up in some seedy motel.
He went from a complete unknown to one of the most famous and well-respected opera singers in the world.
Special music will be provided by a famous opera singer and a 100-member combined choir will sing.
We were serenaded by an opera singer, accompanied on the piano by her adoring husband.
By such reasoning a choreographer was on a level with an opera director or a scenic designer rather than an opera composer.
The opera company has a reputation for breathing new life into neglected masterpieces.
Schreker's opera not as a work from a turn of the century long ago, but as a paradigm with very contemporary relevance.
Beber treats the story as a soap opera and throws in everything but the kitchen sink.
The opera does make free with history but the characters of the opera are recognisably the historical characters of popular imagination.
The rediscovery of Italian bel canto opera more or less passed New York by.
I know all the companies are putting out opera DVDs at a rate of knots, and I suspect strongly that all other niche markets are doing likewise.
It goes without saying that the sub-genre of rock opera lies uneasily within the larger categories of opera and rock music.
Then gradually the musical accompaniment and singing separated and it became an opera form.
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Mime also appears in the first opera of the tetralogy, Das Rheingold, rehearsals for which began last year.
Yet Strauss manages to create an opera which wrings every dramatic drop from the text.
He singled out the areas of sport, academics and opera for special mention in this regard.
An opera singer croons in a corner, and a three-piece band plays classic melodies.
This opera house has a great tradition and these colourful touring productions have been lavishly praised.
We will have to wait until after the election for the next saga in the best political soap opera in history.
They were the final aria in the long opera which had first joined keel and canvas in the xebecs and dhows of the Mediterranean.
She also revealed that a couple of big time opera houses in New York do resort to using body mikes or floor mikes.
However, to soften the tall-boy look, the belt line is unusually high, with narrow vertical side windows, and three small, round opera windows.
It is such a beautiful opera and I hum along and wish it would last a lot longer than it does.
Sydney has a great reputation for performing arts, not least because the opera house attracts the best of international acts.
Catalans enjoy going to opera houses, theaters, and museums in Barcelona and other cities.
In that piece, he combined Peking opera, Western opera and Japanese traditional puppet theater.
It isn't mean-spirited, and it doesn't misunderstand or fail to care about the reasons people love space opera in the first place.
In parallel to her opera career, she also sang for Handel in the oratorio seasons.
This is a land of festivals, more than any other, whether it means tossing cabers, weighing marrows or staging opera in country houses.
One such marvellous site already exists and as yet nobody has looked at it as a possibility as either a new theatre or even an opera house.
Both play and opera form an examination of the neurotic bifurcation between fantasy and action.
Although you may inspire many an opera you should not take their plots to heart, my angel.
After Peter Grimes Although Britten wrote a second string quartet in 1945, opera increasingly occupied his attention.
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Francesca Zambello, one of the world's foremost female directors of opera and musical theatre, will direct.
Composers set countless lyrics to music, and opera depended upon the poetry of the libretto.
This is counter to mainstream cinema viewing but in keeping with soap opera and many televisual texts.
Of course, as any opera lover knows, Bizet never actually stirred himself to visit the country in which his most popular opera is set.
Overweight local opera would-be stars were splattered in mid-aria, and in wiping away the blue paint, it smeared and didn't come off.
The opera is sung mostly in Japanese, and some parts in English, Tagalog and Spanish, with the Filipino soloists also singing in Japanese.
The entire edifice of opera subsidy, supposedly designed to make opera accessible, has had to rely instead on a private company.
Romania has many radio stations, television stations, live theaters, opera houses, cabarets, and entertainment establishments.
Ultimately, Nurse Betty is about a woman who finds agency by dreaming up a new identity as a stock soap opera character.
He stated once that Castle Howard was probably the first venue to stage outdoor concerts, apart from opera honeypot Glyndebourne, in Sussex.
But don't expect to see the results in opera houses or theaters any time soon.
Baker, not ordinarily thought of as a dramatic singer, shows most opera divas how to act with the voice.
It could be said that one of the features of contemporary opera is both the dearth of conspicuous talent and the amount of money pursuing it.
All this provides a reminder that this is an opera seria, with all its baroque associations.
He recasts the well-known instrumental interlude from his opera Sir John in Love for voices.
The judge's bailiff plays the opera on a boombox for the perpetrators who can only sit and stare back and not look out the window or nap.
And there is an unpublished libretto for an opera scored by Alberto, Bolivia's most famous composer.
The concert will include many opera favourites including arias from Bizet, Puccini and Dvorak.
The following year McNally won the Tony again for Master Class, his portrait of opera diva Maria Callas.
A landmark cultural building, either a theatre or an opera house, according to Coyne, will act as a focal point for the area.
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Maggie was too young to notice such things and was excited about meeting a lady who sang in theaters and opera houses.
This huge opera is nothing less than a setting in Russian of almost the entire plot of the trilogy of Aeschylus.
Ralph Vaughan Williams's career as an operatic composer began in 1910 with the romantic ballad opera Hugh the Drover.
She began her career playing light comic roles in ballad opera and pantomime and became one of the most versatile performers of her day.
First recorded in 1977, Peter Bellamy's ballad opera expertly combined a traditional approach and composed music.
The opera will mark the 450th anniversary of Ukon's birth and the centennial of Japanese migration to the Philippines.
She was also a gifted singer and could sing French opera arias in perfect pitch.
The opera is beautifully suited to the balletic form, with a dramatic setting, strongly drawn characters and a plot of enduring depth.
Medicine was hard, and he should work at it hard instead of fooling about learning to dance or listening to opera on scratchy expensive records.
Her eyes were closed, and she was quivering her lips like an opera singer, though it wasn't affecting her singing at all.
The opera played to packed houses and rave reviews in New York and won a Pulitzer Prize for its composer.
Running about three hours and structured over a broad first act and a swifter second, the opera revels in its bigness.
Barber, meanwhile, had been hankering after writing opera as early as 1932, though he initially avoided approaching his partner for a text.
In 1955, he worked as a rehearsal pianist and choral conductor at the Teatro Colon, the city's opera house.
No matter how far away I am from the stage, though, I find going to opera is a thrilling experience.
The opera deals with a Protestant minister who publicly forgives his wife after discovering she has had an adulterous affair in his absence.
In the opera stanzaed popular songs bring out its thematic and ideological content.
Later, at school in Uppingham, he even wielded the baton, with evident glee, for a newly composed opera written by a young friend.
If opera is an elitist, outmoded art form for high-brow aesthetes, then no one's told these kids.
Christmas comes early for opera aficionados and classical music enthusiasts.
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He cleverly weaves several themes from the opera together with elements of Argentine folk music.
Adapting Schiller was playing with fire, and getting an opera based on his work on stage could be risky, in Italy above all.
Instead, the work that opened the new Khedival opera house in Cairo on November 1, 1869, was Verdi's earlier opera Rigoletto.
Theatre and opera were bounded by the physical limitations of scenery and props.
The program will feature Japanese and Korean drummers, a Peking opera performance and a traditional Chinese dance and acrobat performance.
Like opera itself, the novel is outsized and outrageous, with evil curses, nervous breakdowns, and overwhelming arias.
But until this month, they have given only a single performance together in an opera house.
As a production of the book and opera Carmen, Karmen Gai does offer some wonderfully melodramatic scenes.
Every city and small town in Germany has an opera house and several other performance venues besides.
I emerged a minute later with a pair of binoculars and a pair of opera glasses.
By time, this puritanical attitude has fortunately changed and the opera is now unanimously regarded as a total masterpiece.
Just as opera stars interpret their roles differently, so do chief executives.
Had he not made a career from mathematics he could well have made his profession as an opera singer.
Kleeblatt is a charming Bavarian with a fine talent for putting together an opera production and choosing a fitting cast.
Along with a ballpoint and opera glasses, they have become standard equipment for dance-going.
Assignments can be organized around a theme, such as Beethoven, baroque music, opera or jazz.
The opening sinfonia for strings and trombones is remarkably like several opera overtures of the time, with square rhythms.
This opera is long and ponderous enough, and though there is much depth to plumb, the tempos, to me, must move along.
Played multiple times, each player will spend a lot of time standing alone outside the opera house or a movie theater.
His father was Lee Hoi-Chuen, a successful actor and Cantonese opera performer.
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For the opera festival arts trail you will see six Cow Parade bovines graze the streets of Waterford.
As the opera is named after her, Carmen dominates the cast, and every theme and idea is embodied in her character.
It is particularly this simultaneity rather than sequentiality that leads one to conclude that Magnolia is soap opera rather than film melodrama.
Acclaimed for using a popular format to pass on the social message, the film had used the soap opera look to cash in on a large audience.
Then, gradually, a light is seen in Diemut's room, and suddenly all the flames burst out, and the opera ends in a paean of love.
Granted, it was a semi-soap opera for men with massive homoeroticism throughout the series, but it was well written and well acted.
A recent episode elevated this superior soap opera into deeply affecting drama.
The cook was a huge singing head whose mobile features and acting skills exceed the expressive capacities of most live opera singers.
One of the best soap opera parodies on television, Soap ran for four seasons and featured a stellar cast of players.
Combine the two and you get a non-stop soap opera with few station breaks.
Sometimes, when I had to be content with a seat at the back of the lecture theatre, I used a pair of opera glasses to get at least a glimpse of the speaker.
A full German libretto with an English translation makes this reissue recommendable even to collectors acquainting themselves with this opera for the first time.
If, in its original form, melodrama had a relatively short shelf-life, the sudden intrusion of the spoken voice into opera has been used by most composers ever since.
It is, alternately, a provocative and pensive soap opera that puts the gothic in southern gothic.
Trains, planes, schools, even opera houses faced disruption yesterday as millions of Italians went on strike to protest reforms of the pensions system.
The passacaille that concludes this opera is a doozie, lasting for most of the final scene, and involving two bass patterns in alternation, one descending and one ascending.
When parents on the soap opera held a birthday party for their daughter it created a small revolution.
Polonium is also at the center of a major plot line currently playing out on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.
Just as the rain began to fall in buckets, we reached the opera house.
Instead, this youth-oriented horse opera was left in a barn for two years, long enough for the Dawson Creek's star to outstay his welcome in the pages of Teen People.
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In the 18th and 19th centuries the barcarole inspired a considerable number of vocal and instrumental compositions, ranging from opera arias to character pieces for piano.
Fifty pence goes in the slot, nasty plastic opera goggles come out.
Greg has had little sympathy for those who go to the opera house or the concert hall for the purposes of spiritual uplift or communion with ossified High Culture.
Replace hard rock, piano balladry, and opera with death metal, prog rock, and emo, and the result is one of the most intensely colorful albums you'll hear this year.
Opera came to America in 1735, in the form of English ballad opera featuring spoken dialogue, new lyrics set to familiar tunes, and subjects taken from ordinary life.
Brookside showed societal ugliness in a way no soap opera had done before.
This production of Bizet's hot-blooded opera is to be sung in French with English surtitles and features a new set by Felix Bessonov based on the city of Seville.
Its repertoire is rich and varied, including a number of difficult and rarely performed musical pieces, opera and ballet music, as well as cantatas and oratorios.
One could find parts of a symphony and an overture of German or Austrian origin along with Italian opera selections, quadrilles, and virtuoso items.
The foreign minister was particularly scorned for going to the opera on Sunday night and not turning up for work until 31 hours after the earthquake.
It's a sad fact, but the opera world has become so businesslike, singing styles so generic, and the stars so homogenized, that there is virtually nothing left to make fun of.
After a village childhood and two years planting rice during the Cultural Revolution, he developed his musical skills in the provincial Peking opera troupe.
He was an opera singer who became an agent for divas and tenors.
The 150-year family dynasty that controlled Anheuser-Busch lived in a soap opera as sudsy as the product they sold.
As opera matured over the next 150 years, the dramatic duties that at first had been assigned to mere Shades and Furies were taken over by full-fledged gods and goddesses.
The whole thing comes across as oddly sexless, a pre-adolescent's view of the Universe, the space opera equivalent of Tolkien's largely chaste Middle Earth.
It's a pity space opera doesn't sell quite so well these days.
The first opera was written when the composer was twenty-five, and it has all the glinting lightness and mordant irreverence that his early works display.
Thankfully, the four young leads give suitably heartfelt and believable performances, giving an otherwise schlocky teen soap opera the pleasing illusion of quality.
Then why demand of Ailes that his opera bouffe company treat you as anything other than an interloper?

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