Sentence examples for engaged performances from inspiring English sources

As a rule, though, Ms. Makarova elicits far less vitally engaged performances.

Those are loud and generally less impressive than Mr. Pearce and especially Mr. Kingsley, who turn in the sort of engaged performances that Mr. Downey no longer gives in the franchise.

The singers — Katrina Thurman, a soprano; Hai-Ting Chinn, a mezzo-soprano; Keith Jameson, a tenor; David Adam Moore, a baritone; and Kevin Burdette, a bass — offered rich, engaged performances.

A veteran of East Berlin's pioneering Volksbühne, Schlingensief took his anarchic, improvisatory, politically engaged performances everywhere, from the Bayreuth opera festival, where his "Parsifal," featuring a decaying hare, was booed for minutes on end, to Burkina Faso, where, at the time of his death, he was at work on an "opera village," whose construction is still under way.

In his concerts with the Met Chamber Ensemble, James Levine takes musicians from the Met Orchestra about as far as you can get from the opera repertory that occupies them night after night, and the players respond with vigorous, deeply engaged performances.

QPR striker Cisse - producing one of his engaged performances that have been scarce this season - could have opened the scoring on three occasions in the first half but his unmarked back-post header and curling shot from the edge of the box were both saved by home keeper Simon Mignolet and his 25-yard pile-driver flew a yard past the top corner.

The vital and engaged performance of the young orchestra, in fact, was the musical highlight of that evening.

The women's dialogue is pungently ribald but diffuse; too often, shouting and shrieking and gesticulating take the place of engaged performance.

In 1988, he gave a vital, engaged performance in English as Gaev in Peter Brook's production of The Cherry Orchard in New York.

This is an admirably centered and engaged performance that gives shadow as well as substance to her physically exact portrayal of Elizabeth through the ages.

Mr. Schimmel's writing is energetic, inviting and, most crucial for a piece of this kind, picturesque, and these musicians gave it the fully engaged performance it deserved.