Sentence examples for dramatic opera from inspiring English sources

Thanks to Charles MacKay, the general director of the Santa Fe Opera, it is finally possible to experience this mystical, challenging and viscerally dramatic opera, which had such a torturous path to production.

After all, this is a very dramatic opera".

"Death and the Powers" is less a dramatic opera than an oratorio of ideas.

Philip Glass imagines his final months in this dramatic opera, including fanciful encounters with Abraham Lincoln and Andy Warhol.

But that was almost the end of "Zelmira," a dramatic opera that was neither lost nor forgotten, but is virtually unperformed today.

Two actors in the supporting roles of gypsy smugglers, Justin Madel as Dancaire and Kelvin Chan as Remendado, act their roles superbly, adding comic moments to an otherwise dramatic opera.

That's true for pretty much every piece Saariaho has written, whether it's one of her luminous but inescapably dramatic operas, such as L'Amour de loin or Adriana Mater, or her orchestral sound- and cosmos-scapes such as Orion, or her chamber and ensemble works such as Nymphéa and Lichtbogen.

Porgy and Bess, dramatic folk opera in three acts by George Gershwin.

Football is a dramatic soap opera when it wants to be, as Thursday night's events in south London proved.

Monteverdi couldn't have been more open about his belief that sacred music should be as pointedly dramatic as opera, the new form he helped create.

Nina Maria Stemme (born Nina Maria Thöldte on May 11 , 1963 is a Swedish dramatic soprano opera singer.