Sentence examples for opera aside from inspiring English sources

Classical and opera critics were much in evidence as, indeed, was anyone interested in American music and American musical theater, increasingly irrelevant subcategories like "musical" and "opera" aside.

It's time to put the soap opera aside and step up to the plate".

There is little comic relief in the opera, aside from occasional pubescent antics from the pair of brothers, well characterized by tenors Michael Marcotte and Peter Tantsits.

I asked Gidden about opera, which I had heard she'd been studying as an undergraduate student at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, before putting opera aside for the music of her native North Carolina hill country.

Grand opera aside, I am inclined to believe that, perhaps, my objection to the indiscriminate standing ovation is indicative of not only the decline in the cultural aspirations of the audience, but in the decline of the quality of what is on offer.

Many ardent Wagnerians, who esteem the composer's visionary "music dramas" as being above mere operas, have willingly accepted Wagner's wish to brush his early operas aside.

Another five operas aside, Mariotte's main musical distinction seems to have been to write a piano sonata (1906) in the oddly underused key of F sharp minor – putting him in the same company as Koussevitzky and his double bass concerto, a red herring perhaps but we are in aquatic mood.

She also said that Carax had known nothing of her history as a pop star and soap opera actor – aside from her 1995 duo with Nick Cave, Where the Wild Roses Grow.

She wrote: "The thing is, soap-opera origins aside, Dale is always good.

But Beijing opera faces particular difficulties, aside from the aging and fading away of a knowledgeable audience.

But the opera faces particular difficulties, aside from the aging and fading away of a knowledgeable audience.