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