They assembled an ace team.
No opera composer has ever assembled a more varied and vivid portrait gallery: Rigoletto, evil jester and loving father; self-sacrificing Violetta of La traviata and self-destructive Amneris of Aida; implacable Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra; the page Oscar in Ballo; the passionate Leonora of Trovatore and the tormented Leonora of Forza; the truly Shakespearean Lady Macbeth; and Verdi's own Desdemona.
He assembled a staff that includes Alan Burns, a veteran of major opera companies, as associate director and stage manager.
He loved tinkering as a child; he assembled a vacuum-tube radio so his mother could listen to opera, and built a working electronic seismograph.
"COSÌ FAN TUTTE," The Metropolitan Opera has assembled a strong cast for its production of Mozart's ultimate ensemble opera.
He assembled a syndicate and formed the Comedy Opera Company, with Gilbert and Sullivan commissioned to write a comic opera that would serve as the centrepiece for an evening's entertainment.
The artistic director, Alfredo Silipigni, has assembled a diverse cast of far-reaching talent in his effort to bring "world-class opera to the citizens of New Jersey".
Carte finally assembled a syndicate in 1877 and formed the Comedy Opera Company to launch a series of original English comic operas, beginning with a third collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan, The Sorcerer, in November 1877.
Once he had assembled a cast of African American singers who could successfully balance jazz and operatic singing, it became clear that the opera world was not ready for a "black opera," and the jazz world was not ready for opera at all.
True, the movie-makers had rounded up a ragbag-picking of No players and puppeteers not under contract to Shochiku, but they were having the devil's own time assembling a presentable all-girl opera company.
