Sentence examples for a sort of opera from inspiring English sources
I see it basically as a sort of opera.
My partner, Anna Soderstrom, and I had already written a libretto for a – sort of – opera for the Sao Luis Teatro Municipal in Lisbon, Portugal.
Artist David Shrigley, famed for his mordant cartoons, is turning his hand to opera (or rather a "sort of opera", he says), with composer David Fennessy, winner of a Paul Hamlyn award last year.
"It's a sort-of opera set around a faux TV cookery show," he explains.
The posters promised a "sort-of opera" about cookery; what transpired was a zany, warm-hearted sort-of pantomime held together by some extremely good music and expert comic delivery.
His most enduring composition may be the opera Porgy and Bess, a story about two blacks, which Gershwin intended as a sort of "folk opera", a creation of a new style of American musical theater based on American idioms.
I didn't want to make a moral statement about infidelity, but to entertain, so it plays out like a children's game, a sort of teenage opera".
The harrowing battles — replete with graphically simulated decapitations and blood-spurting spear wounds — are sparked by conflicts over religion, money, and sex, which Griffith magnifies, with histrionic artifice, to a sort of movie opera.
The Diary can be seen as a sort of miniature opera, a dramatic cantata for tenor, mezzo-soprano and a small female chorus that, at the crux of the action, seems to emerge from the very air.
Debussy's opera "Pelléas et Mélisande" is both one of the greatest operas ever and a sort of anti-opera, which contravened accepted notions of dramatic pacing and narrative definition.
