Sentence examples for foreign opera from inspiring English sources

Even the Spanish royalty grew to favour foreign opera over local forms of musical theatre.

Ninety years later, it's still a working cinema, showing a wide range of European films and live transmissions from foreign opera houses.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Folk Arts Theater, and the restored Manila Metropolitan Theatre (all in Manila) provide homes for the performing arts, featuring local and foreign opera and ballet.

In 1990 ENO was the first major foreign opera company to tour the Soviet Union, performing the Miller production of The Turn of the Screw, Pountney's production of Macbeth, and Hytner's much-revived Xerxes.

In an attempt to reestablish the integrity of local tradition, King Charles IV decreed at the turn of the 19th century that all foreign operas be performed in Spanish by Spanish citizens.

Anthony Tommasini writes, "No one is suggesting that American companies should go back to the old ways and perform foreign operas in English translations" ["Choice Words In Protest of Spelling It All Out," last Sunday].

Foreign operas were popular among the upper-class throughout the 19th century, while other styles of musical theater included operettas, ballad operas and the opera bouffe.

He had an uncanny mastery of foreign languages, opera librettos, sports statistics.

It is implausibly acted and incomprehensible, like a foreign soap opera -- or could Ms. Neshat intend this as a parody?

Standout sketches include a Weakest Link parody called Pointer, in which contestants just point at each other; Leben Ist Das Leben, a foreign soap opera set in a hospital; and a sublime Countdown skit called Kuntworts.

Some of the atrocities reported included a woman forced to drown her own baby; children imprisoned from birth and starved; and families tortured for watching a foreign soap opera.