Sentence examples for opera of power from inspiring English sources

Voters need no encouragement to suspect that politicians are actors in a scene-shifting soap opera of power and money.

121) Boris Godunov A new production from Richard Jones of Mussorgsky's epoch-making opera of power, corruption, politics and community is already a mouth-watering prospect.

And for Monteverdi's opera of power and lust, "The Coronation of Poppea," Mr. Metz is importing the Lyric Opera Theater company of Arizona State University to give a fully costumed, semi-staged version.

On one level, it is a fear of opera, of its power.

du roi": the opera of the king.

To have this of all operas, this epic story of power, greed, deceit, lies and self-delusion, performed in the midst of Britain's current political dog-fighting and economic turmoil – well, it doesn't get any better or more resonant than this for us political Wagnerites.

But much of the opera's power lies in the way animals and humans live parallel lives that affect each other.

Hooray for them!" The object of these fans' affection is a series of four operas that chronicle the corrupting influence of power, as traced by the passage of a power-inducing ring of gold all the way from a Nibelung, or dwarf, blacksmith; to Wotan, the god of gods and Brünnhilde's father; to "Götterdämmerung" for immolation and smelting.

The selections touched on themes explored in the opera, like the power of dreams for a better future and the metaphor of the tree of knowledge.

Arguably the most influential opera of the last few decades, it has lost none of its power and remains Adams' finest stage work.

This work has often been called the "opera of operas".