Sentence examples for less opera from inspiring English sources

I'm doing more concerts and recitals, and less opera, because it takes too long.

"If words truly did not matter, then composers would have written more tone poems and less opera in the 1800s.

In many respects, the piece is less opera than oratorio, taking Bach as an obvious exemplar in its extended meditation on man's inhumanity to man.

This Faust is part bad dream, part music-less opera: sometimes muted and numb, though with hallucinatory flashes of fear.

But less experienced opera orchestras need very solid conductors.

In truth, "Oresteia" is less an opera than a hybrid oratorio and ballet.

It was something less than opera in the fullness of its dramatic potential.

This is less an opera than a failed attempt at Citizen Kane, and there's a vast emptiness at its heart.

In reality, it is none of those things, and has fulfilled a need among less rarefied opera lovers.

The orchestra had a dance-band lineup and the singer-actors, among whom was Weill's wife Lotte Lenya, could not have sounded less like opera stars.

Mr. Marthaler gives us less an opera whole than a catalog of humor, a set of witty marginal notes to an original text.