Sentence examples for inept production from inspiring English sources

Perhaps no conductor will be awarded the kind of power that Levine has long possessed, although Gelb's intermittently dubious artistic decisions — notably, hiring Robert Lepage to direct a so far dramatically inert, at times inept production of Wagner's "Ring" — suggest the need for a decisive musical intelligence on the staff.

But that would seem to be a compensating pleasure in all but the most inept production, and would lead us to expect that vulgar audiences would respond with equal pleasure to almost any inferior work that meets their expectations.

But it's almost impossible to judge the play fairly on the basis of the clumsily inept, poorly acted production that Robert Altman has devised at the Old Vic.

The tilted set by David Zinn is the only effectively off-kilter element in the production, which manages to strike inept notes even in its smaller details.

You can only assume that sorry new productions like last season's inept "Il Trovatore" and this season's dismal "Norma" happened without much input from Mr. Levine.

One German friend said: "They booed Chereau because he challanged them to think & made them angry; they're booing this production because they think it's inept".

Reviewing the 1986 production, Henahan wrote that despite the inept libretto the work was saved by the "melodic suppleness and warmth" of Bizet's score.

The first new production of the fall, "Tosca," was troublingly inept.

Actually, "double curse" was the way Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, referred to the company's seeming inability to present a decent production of Verdi's "Trovatore" in its laughably inept last two tries, in 1987 and 2000.

Along with a lack of production by their top line, the Maple Leafs were ridiculously inept on the power play.

The production as a whole often keeps its characters (especially inept connivers like Oliver Ryan's Aumerle) at a satiric distance.