Sentence examples for distinguished singer from inspiring English sources

She was the most distinguished singer of her day, blessed with a voice that Arturo Toscanini famously called a once-in-a-century phenomenon.

A distinguished singer, a diligent advocate for social causes and as sure a draw as the New York City Opera has had since Beverly Sills, Ms. Flanigan is known for taking risky parts, from Verdi's Lady Macbeth to the role that provided her opening quip: the medium at the center of Stephen Schwartz's "Séance on a Wet Afternoon".

John Potter is a distinguished singer (a longstanding participant in the English early music scene as a member of the Hilliard Ensemble and Red Byrd) and sometime academic; his co-author, Neil Sorrell, is a scholar of Indian and Javanese music, co-founder of the English Gamelan Orchestra.

Laura Alley, the stage director, drew nuanced performances from a cast that surely reaped further benefits from the guidance of Regina Resnik, a distinguished singer and actor whose roles have included Madame de Croissy and who is in her sixth season as Mannes Opera's master artist in residence.

"We don't want him using these lyrics," said Brown's daughter, Maggie Brown, also a distinguished singer.

Aimée was an accomplished pianist, while her brother François Delsarte was a distinguished singer and teacher who performed at the courts of both Louis Philippe and Napoleon III.

Distinguished soloists, singers and members of the New York Philharmonic were everywhere.

On "Jonathan," their voices weave in and out of a rambling piano line, to the point that it becomes impossible to distinguish one singer from the other.

In his early work, Singer distinguished between preventing evil and promoting good and contended that persons in affluent nations are morally obligated to prevent something bad or evil from happening if it is in their power to do so without having to sacrifice anything of comparable importance.

Now, over 40 years later, after the inimitable Ono has distinguished herself as a singer, songwriter, filmmaker, and performance artist, MoMA officially welcomes the 82-year-old artist back to explore her early years with Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960 1971.

Metropolitan Opera, in New York City, leading U.S. opera company, distinguished for the outstanding singers it has attracted since its opening performance (Gounod's Faust) on October 22, 1883.