Sentence examples for Cut the opera from inspiring English sources

B.L.O. has cut the opera down from two hours to ninety minutes and reduced the orchestra to seventeen players.

Perhaps those who cut the opera in the past, cut the substance instead of the trim ming.

(It can't hurt that Mr. Maw has cut the opera since its premiere; it is now about three hours).

One result is that although Mr. Zeffirelli has cut the opera by about half an hour, the movie seems to run longer than an uncut recording.

"Well, I cut the soap opera because I wanted to go out and do a sea-hunt movie," Spielberg demurred.

In a move that Handel purists today would consider sacrilege, Mr. Rudel and the stage director, Tito Capobianco, cut the lengthy opera to a workable three hours.

Mozart himself cut the aria for the opera's 1788 Vienna revival.

The conductor, Christian Thielemann, has restored the passages in the third act that are usually cut, making the opera more fluid and coherent.

Most of all, however, critics repeatedly praised Mr. Hofmann's appearance — svelte, strapping, square-jawed and profusely blond — which cut through the opera world like a lightning bolt in an era when singers tended toward the mountainous, the immovable and the uncomely.

Now, growing rumours that a new management team plans to cut the number of annual opera productions and reduce the size of the chorus has prompted an outcry from conductors, composers, directors and performers, who warn that to do so would risk destroying the 84-year-old company, one of London's two opera houses.

But most likely he judged the exchange too subtle and complicated for opera, so he cut the scene entirely.