Sentence examples for lavish stage from inspiring English sources

This Saturday will see it revived once more, in a lavish stage adaptation at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," a 1968 movie about a flying car, is reborn this month in London in a lavish stage version.

Instead director Rufus Norris lays on a sumptuous array of scenes and tableaux that draw upon the lavish stage mechanics of an Elizabethan masque.

Hortense Acton, with La Pietra as her lavish stage set, wore her Callot Soeurs gowns to entertain; her parties drew everyone from Gertrude Stein and Sergei Diaghilev to Winston Churchill.

It may have been, but the concert, which cost Mr. Pinchuk more than $5 million, was also the latest, most lavish stage for his own uneven metamorphosis from grasping, post-Soviet oligarch to international mover and shaker.

Tea With Mussolini concludes with the preservation of a Renaissance fresco at San Gimigniano, lovingly cushioned with sandbags to save it from Nazi bombardment, and Zeffirelli's most lavish stage pictures are Utopian frescoes resurrecting entire societies.

The lavish staging and budget ensured that it was far more than a record of the opera.

Mr. Lanchbery was long associated with Ballet Theater, which used his arrangements or orchestrations for 14 productions between 1962 and 2002, including Natalia Makarova's lavish staging of the 19th-century classic "La Bayadère" in 1980.

It may be that the title is meant to be taken mainly at face value, given that both of this year's opera productions — a lavish staging of Agostino Steffani's "Niobe, Regina di Tebe," and Handel's chamber opera "Acis and Galatea" — are based on stories from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," and other works promise to address transformation as well, with and without Ovid.

She created costumes for stars like Katharine Cornell, in a 1947 production of "Antony and Cleopatra," and for Orson Welles and his lavish 1946 stage production of "Around the World in 80 Days".

Ligeti's gloriously surreal opera, in its ridiculously overdue New York première, is being offered in a visually lavish semi-staging that will give Peter Gelb's company across the plaza a run for its money.