Sentence examples for opera down from inspiring English sources

"I love opera, but I've never heard opera down here.

In stripping the opera down to its essentials, Scottish Opera's small-scale touring production assumes that plot and drama take precedence over local colour; its limited success suggests this may be a mistaken assumption.

Weill's American folk opera Down in the Valley (1948) was much performed.

B.L.O. has cut the opera down from two hours to ninety minutes and reduced the orchestra to seventeen players.

Mr. Brook pared Mozart's opera down to a streamlined 100-minute version, performed by just seven singers, two actors and an onstage pianist.

Birtwistle's chamber opera Down by the Greenwood Side was commissioned for the 1969 Brighton festival, when it was performed on the now destroyed West Pier.

Five operas down, the series is a curious one, worth relishing on some counts but also frustratingly uneven.

The opera bogs down in Act 3, when Morosus attempts to divorce "Timidia".

"People see it as a soap opera playing down in Poughkeepsie.

The Belgians did not take well to that and a riot broke out in the opera house down below in Brussels.

It has high notes aplenty, which Ms. Racette reached without strain, but spends much of the opera lower down, in registers that she can't access with the necessary searing power.