Sentence examples for house opera from inspiring English sources

In Beijing, it has an arts university, opera house, opera, symphony orchestra, drama troupe and numerous bands.

It was the original British country house opera, and arguably remains the most beautiful, offering opera-goers world-class performances, the chance to picnic in the grounds and an excuse to dress up.

So far, this year's country house opera season has been positively monsoon-like, with only occasional evenings warm enough to qualify for that longed-for combination of great music and great weather.

Despite lively conducting by Christian Curnyn, bringing out the economical beauty of Donizetti's orchestration, what is minimised, largely thanks to the depressingly grey setting, is the work's charm, a quality all the more desirable in the context of country house opera.

At the other end of the spectrum there's country-house opera.

After accepting a Royal Opera commission Mr. Adès made clear that he intended to write his own kind of major-house opera his own way.

"We really don't think of ourselves as country-house opera anymore," says David Pickard, Glyndebourne's general director.

Within seven years, inspired by Glyndebourne, he had created his own country-house opera in the walled gardens of his estate.

Garsington acquired critical credibility (and some relief from the complaint that, like all country-house opera, it was nothing more than a diversion for the rich) by staging the British premieres of forgotten Haydn operas and taking up lesser-known works by Rossini and Richard Strauss.

He may not be the most obvious composer for a summer country-house opera season to major on, if only for purely practical reasons, but Longborough's association with Wagner in general, and The Ring in particular, dates back to the early days of the Cotswold season, almost a decade ago, when it presented cycles of a scaled-down version of the Ring which packed the whole cycle into two evenings.

Theatre groups can bring Shakespeare to deprived housing estates; opera houses can lure the young and penniless with cheap seats.