The broad-shouldered opera complex on Piaţa Victoriei is the city's cultural hub.
Tracy Dahl (Madame Mao) was an invigorating visual presence; Maria Kanyova, Mark Duffin, Chen-Ye Yuan and Jan Opalach sang with broad grand-opera voices and, except in bare-bones expository passages, managed collectively to stop Alice Goodman's texts in their tracks.
And it has broad space-opera themes – it's been compared to the beginning of Iain M Banks's Culture series, and it could be as epic as that by the time she gets to parts two and three".
"The Tristan Chord" begins, surprisingly enough, with a broad consideration of opera, its aesthetic and its history.
Norman Atkins, a baritone whose broad range included opera, musical theater and Jewish liturgical music, died on Jan . 13in Hackensack, N.J.
"Deep" rather than "broad" experience of opera might help, together with a thorough grasp of music (a word not used in the brief).
Most can agree that there are elements that should be present in Baroque opera, broad principles that should be observed, like the tension between restraint and release, the exhilaration of spectacle, both embrace of artifice and depth of feeling.
It's an ornate, medium-sized (1,700-seat 1,700-seatitheaterllent acoustics; it presents a broad repertoire of opera, dance and even solo recitals and chamber music.
The music of Italy ranges across a broad spectrum of opera and instrumental classical music and a body of popular music drawn from both native and imported sources.
To draw a broader audience, the opera house recently announced a staggering program of commissions, premieres and other pieces by contemporary composers stretching through to 2020.
