Sentence examples for opera engagements from inspiring English sources

Currently China's most famous baritone, Mr. Liao divides his time between opera engagements — including Rodrigo in "Don Carlo" in 2008 and "Rigoletto" the year before in Shanghai — and leading the Conservatory's vocal department.

Even so opera-oriented a maestro as Riccardo Muti now limits his opera engagements to an annual production for the Rome Opera and whatever he schedules with his orchestra, the Chicago Symphony.

Continuing through Dec. 13, the Next Wave Festival will present a total of 15 theater, dance, music and opera engagements, complemented by music performances, film programs and other attractions.

Important recent opera engagements include the title role in L'incoronazione di Poppea with Madrid's Teatro Real and the title role of Semele at the Theâtre des Champs Elysees.

Conveniently, Racette's 54 Below shows are bookended by two opera engagements -- "To be able to do both is an embarrassment of riches," she added -- but she nonetheless hopes her work helps extend the perception of opera as a stuffy or elitist art form, defining herself as a "singing actress" rather than "opera singer".

For the duration of the opera engagement, which ends on Friday, the foyer has been filled with 450 seats and a stage, festooned with posters of bullfights.

With a safe choice of opera and the engagement of the reputable, ever-busy Robert Carsen to stage it, a warm reception was all but assured.

And that's where, as an art-form, opera's true engagement with the world is to be found: in heightening the love stories, myths, tragedies, and comedies of human existence, opera is more real than real life.

After a brief engagement at the Berlin opera, she was engaged in Munich, Germany, where, in 1896, she appeared in Coppélia.

From conducting musical farces in Austria, he rose through various provincial opera houses, including important engagements at Budapest and Hamburg, to become artistic director of the Vienna Court Opera in 1897, at age 37.

Strains of "Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss wafted through the room as he presented to her a glass rose, an allusion to the silver rose in the opera, a symbol of engagement.