Sentence examples for opera functions from inspiring English sources

Of the many modes in which the enterprising New York City Opera functions these days, an opera from the heart of the repertory in a fully conventional production may soon be the rarest.

Mr. Lepage's huge piece of machinery used for all the operas functioned as a lightning rod.

The cat-loving Rendell smartly uses the veterinary clinic, much as pubs in soap operas function, as a way of bringing disparate people plausibly into contact.

Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey ) is the protagonist of a 24-hour TV soap opera that functions as an extension of normal fictional soaps into the territory of 'reality programming' - all those dead hours of prime time devoted to life among the staff of a large hotel or a cruise liner.

However, his critics say that he has few cultural credentials and little knowledge of the way opera houses function.

An opera orchestra that functions symphonically, winning prizes for recordings, is only one development in James Levine's 29-year tenure.

That is hardly a brilliant insight: no opera house can function without its musicians.

In the space of three years, he produced "Rigoletto," "Il Trovatore," and "La Traviata," without which no modern opera house could function.

But the function of opera in the book is more complicated than that.

Anything less, he says, is to ignore the underlying social function of an opera house, which is to be "an emotional fitness center for us all".

For the latter, Mr. Day said, he channeled "a bad British punk band" to demonstrate right-brain function and an opera singer to demonstrate the workings of the left hemisphere.