Sentence examples for opera background from inspiring English sources

"Actually Callas and Clytemnestra have a lot in common, aside from being Greek and really, really disappointed by their men," said Mr. Wadsworth, who brings an extensive opera background to the project.

The protean character of music that enables it to form such easy alliances with literature and drama (as in folk song, art song, opera, "background" music) and with the dance (ritual, popular entertainment, "social," ballet) appears to confirm the wide range and influence that the Greeks assigned to it.

Of the 90percentt of the tenants subsidized by HUD, 70percentt must earn at least half their income as stage, film or television actors, singers or dancers; make-up artists, costumers or designers; voice coaches or composers of soap opera background music; stagehands or publicists or ushers.

Her soap opera background gave her good training in how to allow a simple story to capture an audience's heart.

Young cast actors who were already established names in the acting industry, particularly from a soap opera background.

In casting the first series of Holby City, Young who had previously worked on the soap operas Brookside and Family Affairs selected actors who were already established names in the acting industry, particularly from a soap opera background.

For him an opera's setting was not merely background but the defining element of its musical and dramatic nature.

He had never run an opera house; his background in classical music is largely in marketing, public relations, and artist management.

With little art on the walls, and no opera in the background, there's nothing to distract the diners from the food.

Neither Kristina nor many of her classmates come from homes where parents and grandparents listen to opera as daily background music.

The room is encircled in tiny white lights and features a handsome wood bar, French Impressionist pictures, lots of green plants, a beveled-glass door and strains of opera in the background.