Sentence examples for making an opera about from inspiring English sources

But by making an opera about television a source of entertainment for the Everyman they are, perforce, creating a marriage of high and low.

"Jerry Springer is very American," Mr. Alvarez said recently, "but only the British would make an opera about him".

Indeed, Sellars, who had had the original idea to make an opera about Klinghoffer's murder, thought Goodman was too hard on the hijackers.

When the Flemish Opera approached Czernowin about making an opera of "Front," she initially resisted, feeling that she had spent enough time in the realm of war.

After completing the songs, Humperdinck set about making an opera from the text, first as a singspiel - a sequence of self-contained songs with dialogue, which he presented to his fiancee as an engagement present at the end of 1890 - and then, more slowly, as a full-scale opera, through-composed and complete with orchestral interludes, which was completed in 1893.

He states a belief that anyone else could have written any of the other tunes, but only he and Mick would have thought about making an opera out of the blues.

It's almost like making an opera.

I couldn't imagine how it would make an opera".

They may even create an opera about it.

A composer friend of Black's had the idea to make a rock opera about the quilt, and asked Black to write the libretto.

Berlioz wrote an opera about him.