The timing and transformation of "La Rondine" left it neither fish nor fowl, lacking in the dramatic stature of an opera but too alienated from its surroundings and too demanding of its singers and orchestra to be an operetta.
The "mountain film" genre's use of cinematic technique - filters, special film stock, slow motion - to endow magnificent natural scenery with dramatic stature - provided her with key elements of her towering visual style and fostered her technical skill.
The filmmakers, working from a screenplay by Maria Camila Arias and Jacques Toulemonde, lend their characters enormous dramatic stature while maintaining a crucial emotional distance.
Occasionally, I still run into a manager who thinks of headhunting as this old "gumshoe" approach, where key employees are lured behind potted palms to discuss wild offers of impressive stature and dramatic salary increases.
Dramatically, he lacked stature.
Then came the 1950's and the Royal Court regained stature as a dramatic foil to the establishment.
As a fantasy, minted from the religious-superstitious mind of the nineteenth-century Polish Jew, it might have assumed the stature of a dramatic tragedy.A Curious Ghost StoryBut there has been slight attempt at fantasy in this Warsaw-made version, and that has been childishly crude.
Indeed, Luan Da's dramatic growth in reputation and stature became a great topic of discussion in the Han capital of Chang'an, and mystics were eager to imitate his success.
That would mean a dramatic comedown: reverting to the smaller stature of his grandfather, a tribal leader of a marginalized minority concerned mainly with its own survival.
January 21 , 1941Madrid, Spain Plácido Domingo, (born January 21 , 1941 Madrid, Spain) Spanish-born singer, conductor, and opera administrator whose resonant, powerful tenor voice, imposing physical stature, good looks, and dramatic ability made him one of the most popular tenors of his time.
Plácido Domingo, (born January 21 , 1941 Madrid, Spain), Spanish-born singer, conductor, and opera administrator whose resonant, powerful tenor voice, imposing physical stature, good looks, and dramatic ability made him one of the most popular tenors of his time.
