Sentence examples for opera setting from inspiring English sources

"We look at it as a reality-soap opera setting against a backdrop of home improvement".

His latest, a chamber opera setting of Gertrude Stein's "Blood on the Dining-Room Floor," which opened at the Peter Norton Space on Sunday evening, shows that he has an encyclopedic command of contemporary styles, if not a particularly original musical voice.

"It's a sort-of opera set around a faux TV cookery show," he explains.

A six-hour opera, set on midsummer's day, might seem an unusual choice for Christmas entertainment.

Strauss's opera sets Wilde's play (in German, naturally) with complete fidelity, except for minor cuts for length.

"A View From the Bridge" is also a New York opera, set in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with the lights of Manhattan as a backdrop.

Rozalie Hirs wrote the original libretto in Dutch, but the opera sets it in an English translation by John Irons that is spare and gently charming.

Lines from the Lillian Hellman play (the opera sets "The Little Foxes") have been added for story coherence, and racially sensitive scenes with black servants removed.

This Rossini opera, set in the wake of the Trojan War, completely disappeared from the repertory for decades, but its rich and surprisingly subtle music deserves better.

Love across the sectarian divide is the subject of Bellini's last opera, set at the time of Cromwell and the English civil war.

George Benjamin's opera sets a high bar to inaugurate their series: a finely crafted work — at once erotic and gruesome, startlingly dissonant and painfully intimate — it was met with near-universal acclaim at the 2012 Aix-en-Provence Festival.