Sentence examples for opera band from inspiring English sources

But will British operatic group Amore succeed in putting the fun back in opera and be the next big opera band?

She has worked with the opera band Amici Forever, sung for Nelson Mandela, taken the lead in Porgy and Bess, and had roles in Puccini, Verdi and Mozart operas.

But the five singers who make up Amici Forever, a London-based international group that calls itself "the world's first opera band," are aiming to be more MTV than PBS.

Other offerings include a work in progress by the composer Paola Prestini and the stage director and set designer Julian Crouch; a multimedia event called "Soldier Songs" by David T. Little; and a "galactic multimedia show" by the "dark glam opera band" Timur and the Dime Museum.

While there was nothing out of the ordinary about that — Mr. Parsons likes to please — the real news will happen on Thursday night with the premiere of "Remember Me," his collaboration with East Village Opera Company, a rock-opera band.

When you open them, you hear various recordings: opera, big-band music, movie dialogue, splashing water and someone breathing.

The birthday bonanza included three performances of The Cave, a 1993 'alternative' opera featuring onstage band and soloists interacting with non-singing interviewees on five video screens.

While music critics can find fault with Mr. Levine's interpretations, there is no arguing with his accomplishments: turning a once lackluster opera house pit band into one of the world's great orchestras; nurturing generations of singers; introducing 20th-century masterpieces into the Met's core repertory; and producing innumerable DVDs and CDs.

Once again, with its grand sets and period costumes, Mr. Schenk's staging provided a poignant showcase for Wagner's humane, mildly comic yet psychologically complex opera about a band of tradesmen and civic officials in mid-16th-century Nürnberg whose greatest pride comes from their membership in an exclusive guild of mastersingers.

There are sites about opera, manatees, jug bands, woodchucks, Honda repairs, elephants, philosophers, authors and the Boston Red Sox.

The music, a hybrid of verismo opera and big-band swing, anticipates future triumphs in "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Porgy and Bess".