Sentence examples for opera development from inspiring English sources

"Opera development is like a miniature of the country," said Chen Zuohuang, music director of the NCPA (and the conductor of "Xi Shi").

"Opera development is like a miniature of the country," said Chen Zuohuang, music director of the national center (and the conductor of "Xi Shi").

Commissioned and produced by ROH2, it is part of an ongoing programme of opera development work across the Royal Opera House, which ranges from full-scale commissions to development workshops, courses and observer programmes.

The family revelation that comes late in the play feels like a soap-opera development, and Lady is written as a one-dimensional character, although Ms. Joyce and Ms. Yionoulis give her some depth.

Although Bess was a relatively minor figure in the source material, Brown worked closely with Gershwin throughout the opera's development stages as he expanded the role and added several songs composed specifically for her.

Prose speeches were frequently improvised during the early period of Peking opera's development, and chou performers carry on that tradition today.

In each of the three main operas, these developments are speeded by an act of drinking something -- water, a sleep potion, a taste of scalding dragon's blood, a memory drug.

Telenovela, Latin American serial drama similar to a soap opera in plot development but having a broader audience and airing during prime time rather than daytime.

Musically, the real turning point came with "Satyagraha," Mr. Glass's 1980 opera about the development of Gandhi's philosophy and technique of nonviolent resistance.

As in a sitcom or a soap opera — and "Arrested Development" is both — much of what happens results because someone has improvised a lie, or crafted one, or is simply not paying attention.

Eighteenth-century opera nourished musical developments in the theatre chiefly through establishing regular orchestras of some quality.