Sentence examples for opera composition from inspiring English sources

Additionally, he drew upon some of the time-honoured techniques of opera composition.

After two decades largely devoted to opera composition, Handel wrote "Athalia," his first large-scale oratorio, in 1733, presaging an eventual switch in genres that was to lead to his best-known work, "Messiah," eight years later.

In his study of late renaissance opera, Gary Tomlinson surmises that the work's enthusiastic reception in Venice was a significant factor in Monteverdi's decision to resume opera composition during his final years.

Handel's earliest opera compositions, in the German style, date from his Hamburg years, 1704 06, under the influence of Johann Mattheson.

It hardly needs saying that our time is very different than that of the operas' composition in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

It could be the time of the opera's composition, the mid-1940's.

But Carsen's production is set in 1910, the year of the opera's composition, and Musilian ironies will abound.

The place has become, it seems, a prototype, early-60s comprehensive – buildings old, attitudes aggressive and new – in keeping with the time of the opera's composition.

Anna Maria Heinrich's costumes, like the sets, variously suggest the era of Gogol's story (1830s) and the time of the opera's composition.

Updated to the 1820s, the time of the opera's composition, it's directed by David Pountney and conducted by Carlo Rizzi, with David Kempster as the Swiss nationalist hero and Clive Bayley as Gesler, governor of the occupying Austrians.

The Male and Female who narrate and comment upon the story (William Burden and Christine Goerke) are here portrayed as a sullen couple sitting on a couch in roughly the time of the opera's composition, the mid-1940's.