Sentence examples for opera conventions from inspiring English sources

While cooking up a spell using a bag labeled Acme Toads, Hecuba tosses a handful of amphibian body parts into a pot while cackling, "So some Frenchman goes hungry tonight!" In the world of "Passions," even something as simple as the passage of time tweaks soap opera conventions.

The transformation also speaks to how well the writers and directors handle the soap opera conventions on this show.

The score was a major musical and theatrical step for Glass toward adapting Minimalism for opera conventions, but he was still thought too avant-garde for American companies.

The Pirates of Penzance (New Year's Eve, 1879) also poked fun at grand opera conventions, sense of duty, family obligation, the "respectability" of civilisation and the peerage, and the relevance of a liberal education.

A thinking person's soap opera - even as it riffs on soap opera conventions - Mad Men announces this episode's power play with soap star Megan Donn's alternately vacuous and insightful French-Canadian trophy wife) gossiping like a soap fan herself upon seeing Peggy and Ted at an afternoon screening of Rosemary's Baby.

Until the end, when it begins to go soft, the movie takes two strands of soap opera convention -- a life-changing accident and an adulterous affair -- and spins their suds into gold.

In accordance with 18th-century opera convention the plot is mainly carried forward in the recitatives, while the musical interest and exploration of character takes place in the arias although on occasion Handel breaks this mould by using arias to advance the action.

"Scandal" -- which got mixed reviews from critics -- saw its ratings swing up last season, as viewers discovered the same mix of real-world workplace settings and juicy soap-opera conventions that creator Shonda Rhimes exploited in "Grey's Anatomy". .

Melodrama, kitsch, national allegory, catharsis and the opera's convention (I love you, but in the fourth act I will kill you) gives way to the pain of the nation inside the body of narration.

"Orfeo," first heard in 1762 and performed at the Met in its original version, is enshrined in history as the original "reform opera," with ornate conventions of the Baroque era giving way to Classical simplicity and stirrings of Romantic angst.

He challenges the conventions of opera.