Sentence examples for imaginative opera from inspiring English sources
The lucky audience on Wednesday gave everyone involved a cheering ovation, especially Mr. Gilbert and the orchestra, for bringing such an imaginative opera production to the Philharmonic.
Known primarily as a solid and steady if not particularly imaginative opera conductor, Mr. Sawallisch will bring something rather different to the sumptuous Philadelphia ensemble than the fiery Mr. Muti has brought.
No doubt if, turning the tables, Hollywood invited an acclaimed, imaginative opera director to try their hand at a low-grade blockbuster, even though that person didn't much like the cinema and had seen nothing since Ben-Hur as a child, he or she would say "Yes, why not?
But Barrie Kosky, an Australian Jew who heads Berlin's Komische Oper and is one of today's most riotously (and, on occasion, chillingly) imaginative opera directors, has something important to say about the current state of affairs.
Kaija Saariaho's "Amour de Loin," for one, which will receive its American premiere this summer at the Santa Fe Opera; or any of the imaginative operas by the English composer Judith Weir.
Hans Werner Henze, a prolific German composer who came of age in the Nazi era and grew estranged from his country while gaining renown for richly imaginative operas and orchestral works, died on Saturday in Dresden, Germany, where he was due to attend the premiere that evening of a ballet set to one of his scores.
Naming her to its Hot 100 list in 2009, The Observer of London said simply, "Netia Jones is the most imaginative director of opera working in Britain today".
In practice, illuminated as it is by Quillévéré's vivid, athletic command of image and sound, it's quite sublime: an imaginative but elemental opera of feeling, free of singing but scored with glimmering beauty by Alexandre Desplat, and probing the toughest truths of what it takes to be, and stay, alive.
Opera News calls Ziporyn's new opera "colossally imaginative".
The opera invites imaginative productions: I saw a darkly compelling staging at the Paris National Opera in 2008.
The moment is representative of Mr. Homoki's imaginative treatment of the opera's important instrumental interludes.
