Much of what follows in this play, directed by Patricia McGregor and vividly acted by a cast that includes the formidable Tonya Pinkins, is infused with the locomotive rhythms of that opening declaration of war.
The opera, which unfolds in two 90-minute acts, strikes a fine balance between treating the military struggle — as in the opening council of war scene during which the Venetians resolve to fight rather than yield — and the human interest.
It recalled the 2002 incident on the opening night of "War and Peace," when an extra appeared to fall (or jumped, the Met has long maintained) and landed in the pit.
At the opening of World War II, he was commandant of the U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia, and he later commanded the 82nd and 28th infantry divisions.
Alcock received his pilot's certificate in 1912 and joined the Royal Naval Air Service as an instructor at the opening of World War I.
At the opening of the war, in 1865, Paraguayan forces advanced northward into the Brazilian province of Mato Grosso and southward into the province of Rio Grande do Sul.
In 1962, when Barbara Tuchman published "The Guns of August," her Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the opening of World War I, she found a ready reader in President John F. Kennedy.
James Robinson's fine production at the City Opera updates Puccini's opera to the opening of World War I, adding some extra heft to the work's undercurrents of sadness.
The story is set after the opening of World War II and involves Dick Tracy's enlistment into the U.S. Navy, working for their Military Intelligence Division (as he did in the comic strip).
But they did and that was only the opening of the war here, as well as the sum of the fighting, at least for the people who stayed in St . Louis
