The phrase "opera song" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a type of musical composition that is performed in an opera, typically featuring operatic vocals and orchestral accompaniment. Example: The opera singer's performance of the famous aria was the highlight of the evening, captivating the audience with her powerful opera song.
Separating himself from the avant-garde, he devoted himself to genres many of his colleagues regarded as outmoded: opera, song, the symphony.
And for this purpose, song and symphony were more appropriate than the dramatic medium of opera: song because of its inherent personal lyricism, and symphony (from the Wagner and Liszt point of view) because of its subjective expressive power.
But these are mere pretexts for the disparate elements of Chinese opera: song, ranging from slightly elaborated speech to arialike effusions; dance, ranging from stylized gesture to, here, fully choreographed scenes; gorgeous costuming (though with little in the way of sets or props); and especially, on these evenings, acrobatics.
To win, she said beauty queens and politicians should remember they represent all Americans, sang an opera song and strutted in a white bikini and black evening gown.
Chan suggested doing an opera song, because...I mean, you see it and you're like 'What the fuck am I watching?' He really wanted people to be like, "Wait, what the…?" So I think we accomplished that with that one.
In his warbling rendition of "The Taking of Tiger Mountain," a 1950s revolutionary opera song, the 56-year-old Bi inserted some sharp commentary, including referring to the founding father of Communist China as a "son of a bitch" and remarking that "he really hurt us bitterly".
While the famous opera songs from "Porgy and Bess" will be available in the public domain in about two decades, the musical version of "Porgy and Bess" is its own licensable property that can generate income for Gershwin relatives for decades, as will the separate license for the other new Gershwin songbook musical on Broadway, Nicee Work if You Can Get It".
That said, I'm very proud to introduce the artists that will dazzle us with some very Crunchy renditions of beloved opera songs.
So I thought, I'm going to sing… and then I heard opera songs, which I found very beautiful and that's when I started singing," HLNBE reports.
British conductors Simon Rattle and Oliver Knussen have taken Henze to their hearts; tenors Ian Bostridge (see right) and John Mark Ainsley are among the composer's latest muses, with operas, song cycles, and concert works written for both over the last decade.
Created with ink on wood, the dizzying drawings are jumbled catalogues of contemporary life, bubbling concoctions mixing politics, sports, soap operas, song lyrics, personal dates, family members and friends.
