Sentence examples for house directors from inspiring English sources

That said, as this recording circulates, expect Wagnerites, conductors and opera house directors to pressure her into singing Isolde and Brunnhilde.

The Grosses Festspielhaus will welcome Richard Strauss's "Frau Ohne Schatten" and Janacek's "Vec Makropoulos," the latter conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and staged by the controversial theater director Christoph Marthaler, who has become a favorite of opera house directors.

Rather, she said, changes in the world film market and a strengthening local currency have made it more difficult for art house directors to match public support with private investment.

Mr. Mortier, a voracious and articulate intellectual, has been an unabashed provocateur, fiercely committed to contemporary music and dismissive of opera house directors who pander to audiences with safely appealing productions of staples.

While Curtiz fetched up as one of the two senior house directors at Warners (alongside rambunctious, two-fisted Raoul Walsh) and became a splendid embodiment of the studio system's oft-forgotten virtues, Buñuel, who worked at the speartip of the European avant garde, remained an international Gypsy, labouring in Mexican obscurity for many years, albeit usually at top form.

Despite often scathing remarks about what he considers the hypocrisy and pretensions of art house directors, Mr. Feng says he is friendly with Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige and other slightly older directors of their type, and that they often advise each other on scripts and films.

Nobody has been more central to her development in this regard than the Flemish director Ivo van Hove, who heads the Toneelgroep Amsterdam and who has become a house director at New York Theater Workshop.

After last week's story about Mike Figgis wanting to shoot in Kate Moss's new house, director Iain Softley tells me he tried to film the French scenes of his latest thriller, Trap for Cinderella, in the house of crooner Sacha Distel.

Her mother, Jean Weins of Boca Raton, Fla., retired as a house director and counselor at the Palm Beach Institute, an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center in Palm Beach.

The paintings depict scenes of Morocco, where he began his military career, and were signed with the pseudonym Geroná, said the auction house director, Carmen Aranguren.

BEIJING — JIA ZHANGKE, China's most prominent art house director, had been preparing to make his first big-budget martial arts film, set in dynastic China, when reality intruded in the form of the Internet.