"Operas we've put onstage the last two years make a powerful artistic case for the company, and they have met with extraordinary audience acclaim and critical acclaim," he said.
Almost as soon as the news of his death was announced, there was an outpouring of well wishes and fond memorials on Web sites and social media, a reflection of the extraordinary public acclaim that came to a very private man.
This time extraordinary critical acclaim was matched with real commercial success.
While the traditional Western definition of genius has undergone more than a few updates since its debut in ancient Greece, a genius is essentially any person who is widely or unanimously acclaimed for an extraordinary, soaring talent, or brilliance such as Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Einstein, Hitchcock, Mozart, Liszt, or Glenn Gould, to name just a handful of obvious dudes.
While the traditional Western definition of genius has undergone more than a few updates since its debut in ancient Greece, a genius is essentially any person who is widely or unanimously acclaimed for an extraordinary, soaring talent, or for brilliance such as da Vinci, Shakespeare, Einstein, Hitchcock, Mozart, Liszt, or Glenn Gould, to name just a handful of obvious dudes.
In 1996 Secrets & Lies won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and earned him five Oscar nominations, but his last film, the often extraordinary All or Nothing, while critically acclaimed, performed pitifully at the domestic box office.
His first book was published when he was only 24, and he's gone on to write critically acclaimed thrillers such as Extraordinary Powers, The Zero Hour, and High Crimes which went on to Hollywood filmdom.
The consistently extraordinary thing is that Orpheus performs to acclaim with no conductor.
Rylance is one of Britain's finest stage actors, winning deserved acclaim most recently for his extraordinary performance as "Rooster" Byron in the Royal Court-originated play Jerusalem, which garnered an Olivier and a Tony.
Even Jiri Menzel, who won an Oscar in 1968, dropped out of filmmaking and turned to theater after the 1994 box-office failure of his critically acclaimed film "The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin".
