Sentence examples for brief opera from inspiring English sources

Still, the teenage Atwood was already writing musical comedies, commercial jingles, even a brief opera libretto about synthetic fabrics.

Just as in those compact works, Mr. Carter gets a lot of music into his brief opera.

And Mr. McFerrin engaged the orchestra in some short, improvisatory sparring, including a brief opera parody in which he sang the baritone and the soprano parts.

He wrote concrete poetry and brief opera librettos and even briefer novels (one had twenty-five words), and he engaged in typed philosophical exchanges with Hollis Frampton — one of them would type for a while on Castoro's Royal portable, and then the other would take over and respond.

The production, based on the Moliere comedy and with music from Richard Strauss' 1924 orchestral suite of the same name, was presented at the New York State Theater on a double bill with Henry Purcell's brief opera, "Did and Aeneas" under the auspices iif the New York City Opera.

Four real Nobel laureates were on hand to present the awards--in the form of a plaque with a cell phone flanked by two cans and connected by string--as well as to sing a brief opera at the 11th annual gathering.

Both are brief operas from the second quarter of the last century and were given here in concert form.

They offer concert versions of two relatively brief operas by Alexander Zemlinsky, "The Dwarf" and "A Florentine Tragedy," both based on texts by Wilde and both dealing with freighted subjects, like passion, betrayal and alienation.

Slow down, Maestro: "Salome" is one of the briefest operas in the repertory, and every detail is worth savoring.

To be presented at 6 p.m. by the Puppeteers' Cooperative, this brief puppet opera is the last event in Playday, an afternoon of family workshops inaugurating the monthlong outdoor festival.

A decade later Mr. Previn wrote the female lead for her in his opera "Brief Encounter," which she performed at its 2009 premiere, in Houston.