Sentence examples for operatic achievement from inspiring English sources

This is clear from the 200-odd operas based on Shakespeare's plays, about half a dozen of which are among the rare monuments of operatic achievement.

And if Toby Spence is a rather fresher-toned Quint and Prologue, and Miah Persson a more spectral sounding governess than usual, that disjunction is at one with a production which manages to restore some of the Jamesian ambiguities that inspired Britten to arguably his greatest operatic achievement.

He rates the last of the composer's operas, The Travelling Companion as his finest operatic achievement, though Burton credits much of its power to the brilliant story adapted by Henry Newbolt from Hans Andersen.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Britten's most durable operatic achievements, and this production shows why.

Anyone who feared their decade-old admiration for the score might be dulled on reacquaintance didn't need to worry; Brabbins's performance reaffirmed this as one of the great operatic achievements of our time.

Earlier this year, Karita Mattila and Jiří Bělohlávek gave a concert performance of Janáček's Jenůfa at the Royal Festival Hall, London, which lingers in the mind as one of the great operatic achievements.

Such was the excellence of her interpretation that Elisabeth Schwarzkopf called her Lulu "one of the supreme achievements of the operatic stage anywhere in the world".

But most of the time, Mr. Freyer's stage pictures were simply on another level of achievement from the conventional operatic experience, in Europe or America.

Presented by the Great Performers series from Thursday to May 17, the celebration is intended to shed light on Mr. Adams's achievements in orchestral, vocal, chamber and operatic music by means of concerts, dance, films, preconcert lectures, postconcert events, panel discussions and free symposiums.

This heartwarming story gave Weisgall precisely what he needed to sum up his achievement, employing a fastidious, finely worked out operatic technique that could combine the intimate detail of "Six Characters" with the grand epic scale of "Nine Rivers From Jordan".

Faust has so successfully held its place in the operatic repertoire that the breadth of its composer's achievement has been largely sidelined.