Sentence examples for cynical opera from inspiring English sources

The bad guys win in this cynical opera.

The opera becomes a cynical story of two couples engaged in a dangerous game to allow themselves to swap partners.

Re William Safire's "Death of Outrage" (column, March 19): Most Americans are unimpressed by whatever their President did or didn't do because they are tired of our new national soap opera and the cynical and self-serving people who star in it and cover it.

Neither the saucy music nor the cynical agitprop of the "Waxworks" operas sits comfortably with the later works.

Cynical about my cynicism?

Mr. Menotti has written his operas in a more cynical and tight-lipped age.

(Zachary Woolfe) 'Eliogabalo' (Friday, Tuesday and Thursday; through March 29) Francesco Cavalli's last opera, written in 1667, is a flamboyant and politically cynical portrait of one of Rome's most debauched emperors, Heliogabalus.

Today the diva machinery is a marketing tool, in opera as in pop, and it makes audiences prematurely greedy and cynical.

No doubt there are some in the purist classical world who will view the announcement as a cynical attempt to lure audiences who wouldn't usually be seen dead at an opera house.

The film’s masterful opening sequence introduces its themes: patriotism and doomed love, mirrored to a swooning aria, as a performance of a Verdi opera triggers the audience to chant anti-Austrian slogans, and brings together a cynical young Austrian soldier (Farley Granger) with an older, sensual Italian countess (Alida Valli).

The opera La Boheme is a romantic tragedy that commences in a sort of cynical merriment around Christmas Eve and goes downhill from there.