Sentence examples for elite opera from inspiring English sources
As important, it establishes the opera house and its grounds as part of the public realm — something that belongs to everyone, not just elite opera fans.
Realizing that Chinese singers required training not just in singing but in ensemble work, language coaching, stylistic analysis and musical preparation, Ms. Zhou set up her elite opera center, the Zhou Xiaoyan Young Opera Singers Trainee Center on the fourth floor of an outlying block of the Shanghai Conservatory.
Nixon wrote the playbook that almost every future Republican would follow -- link Democrats to a condescending elite of opera tickets and Grey Poupon.
The book is manifestly a riposte to Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat, which portrayed the emperor, and indeed Addis Ababa's entire Amharic elite, as a comic-opera laughing stock.
Fighting the image of opera as an elite art form, the Metropolitan Opera will open its doors to the public on Sept. 22, the company said yesterday.
England Made Me toys with oppositions between the popular (statues with identifiable features, the Tivoli amusement gardens, traditional-looking buildings) and the elite (statues with no discernible form, opera, modernist architecture).
"The best of entertainment becomes elite," he said, "and the best of opera becomes entertainment".
Though his enthusiasm was shared by the literate elite, it made him an anomaly in the worlds of opera and theater.
There is little chance of building up a truly elite tradition of singing outside Europe, she argues, because the opera houses in New Zealand and Australia mount only a few performances a year and are bedevilled with cash crises.
This previously unknown fluffy-haired foursome transformed itself into Asia's hottest boy band after star turns in Meteor Garden, a Taiwanese soap opera centered on label-conscious students at an elite high school.
This elite detachment of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra labors through a crowded concert and opera season, then plays at festivals in Vienna and Salzburg, where things may become even more hectic.
