Sentence examples for daunting role from inspiring English sources
Young unknown learns daunting role on short notice; crowd goes wild; critics approve.
By any standards, the son of God is a daunting role to step into.
The soprano Elizabeth Byrne will sing the daunting role of Salome, and Stewart Robertson conducts.
This may be the most daunting role for an actress in 20th-century American theater.
But Sweeney Todd is a vocally daunting role in a musically complex Sondheim score.
This beloved eternal daughter of the American musical has taken on that genre's most daunting maternal role: Momma Rose, a part cast in bronze by Ethel Merman more than four decades ago.
Again and again Ms. Freelon, who looks two decades younger than her 56 years, reiterated how crucial and daunting a role model Horne was for her.
Ms. Peters, a beloved eternal daughter of the American musical, has taken on that genre's most daunting maternal role: Momma Rose, the ultimate stage mother in the ultimate backstage show and a part cast in bronze by Ethel Merman more than four decades ago.
Vocal connoisseurs who believe that Ms. Netrebko has no business singing daunting coloratura roles like Lucia could point to rough patches and indistinct passagework in her performance to validate their opinion.
Jon Vickers, renowned as Tristan, another daunting Wagner heldentenor role, would not even look at Siegfried.
