Sentence examples for ambitious stage from inspiring English sources

It will be a "large-scale and theatrically and visually ambitious stage production," Mr. Hytner said.

It took the best part of 50 years for Shostakovich's most ambitious stage work to be recognised as one of the most original operas of the 20th century.

The Southern Baptists' New York campaign is the latest and most ambitious stage in a national missionary strategy the denomination's North American Mission Board laid out six years ago.

His most ambitious stage work was produced by the City Opera in 1968: "Nine Rivers From Jordan," another complex blend of reality and fantasy, but this time a huge panorama that deals unflinchingly the moral dilemmas of World War II.

First made into a film in 1962, Gypsy centers on Mama Rose, a fiercely ambitious stage mother, and her daughter Gypsy Rose Lee, who goes on to become a burlesque legend.

Not to mention "On a Slow Boat to China, Springng Will Be a Little Late This Year," "Wonderful Copenhagen" (from the movie "Hans Christian Andersen"), "Two Sleepy People" and "Standing on the Corner," from his ambitious stage comedy "The Most Happy Fella" (1956).

But, she says, it was never a case of the ambitious stage-mother effectively pimping her daughter out.

The Metropolitan Opera presented Wagner's "Götterdämmerung" on Tuesday night to conclude the first of three complete cycles of "Der Ring des Nibelungen" this spring, and the director Robert Lepage has made this significant adjustment to the final moments of his ambitious staging.

The 2003 season was one of the strongest in the company's history, highlighted by an ambitious staging of Alban Berg's atonal masterpiece "Wozzeck" and Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri".

And just last week he proved his versatility, providing his own direction for two ambitious "staged concert" performances of Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" with the Budapest orchestra, which he also conducted, at the Rose Theater as part of Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.

Really the only demerit on her CV, at least since her days as a corpse, was Othello, an ambitious staging in 2009 that reworked the tragedy with modern trappings (senators, mobile phones – who knows, a handkerchief made from a polyester blend).