Sentence examples for opera structure from inspiring English sources

Theatre critics received the premiere production enthusiastically, but highbrow music critics were derisive, distressed that "lowly" popular music should be incorporated into an opera structure.

By the end of the 19th century the classic form of opera structure, in which arias, duets and other set-piece vocal numbers are interspersed with passages of recitative or dialogue, had been largely abandoned, even in Italy.

The opera — structured in 13 scenes and a choral epigraph, with action shifting from ballrooms in St .Petersburg and Moscow to battlefields during Napoleon's failed Russian campaign of 1812 — essentially takes place atop a hill.

The opera is structured in two long, sweeping acts.

"Chicago" has the same soap-opera-like structure, deliberate cross section of characters and embedded denunciation of dictatorship as "The Yacoubian Building".

"What I find beautiful in how this opera is structured," he said, "is that we drill down from the larger historical events into the human condition".

The opera is structured like a classical symphony, with a sonata-form opening movement, a scherzo, an adagio and a passacaglia finale.

Eighteenth-century opera is structured, as Ms. Saffer put it, "like pearls on a string": a chain of da capo arias, each adhering to a pattern echoed in modern-day pop songs, with a verse, a bridge and a reprise (ABA form).

Taruskin noted that Adams had said the opera owed its structure to Bach's Passions.

Instead "Parsifal" became a wash of visuals, a semiotic guessing game that too often worked against the grain of the opera's dramatic structure.

This opera has an unusual structure.