Sentence examples for operatic comedy from inspiring English sources

If pulling off one operatic comedy in an evening is hard, then two is virtually impossible.

Meanwhile, across the Channel at the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam, Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier," another oversized German operatic comedy — more of a comédie larmoyante, really — is undergoing a revival of Brigitte Fassbaender's compelling 2004 production, after a concept by Willy Decker.

With its civilized, graceful manipulation of a music-theater vocabulary already in place, "Il Matrimonio Segreto," here in English translation, tells us what we need to know about operatic comedy high and low at the end of the 18th century.

Even more popular than Auber as a purveyor of light operatic comedy was Jacques Offenbach, a German émigré to Paris who supplied France's Second Empire (1852 70) and the early years of the Third Republic (1870 1940) with a long series of very tuneful, witty, and satiric works of deliberate frivolity.

Several critics have likened Gianni Schicchi to Verdi's Falstaff, as both are masterpieces of operatic comedy from composers more usually associated with tragedy.

Renaming it "Falstaff" and infusing it with warmth, the collaborators transformed it into one of the greatest operatic comedies.

On Broadway he received a Tony nomination for the role of the lonely California grape farmer Tony Esposito in the 1979 revival of Frank Loesser's operatic musical comedy "The Most Happy Fella".

Keane recalls an incident before the 2005 opening of Tony Kushner's operatic Brundibar and Comedy on the Bridge.

It is a place where genres meld; where concertos become operatic and arias symphonic; where comedy and tragedy, and the sensual and the sacred, are one.

No one is more suited to playing a tease of a diva than Ms. Midler, who can wring more comedy out of operatic self-absorption than anyone else.

(Midgette) 'LYSISTRATA' (Tonight, Sunday and Wednesday) Mark Adamo's fantastical operatic adaptation of Aristophanes' antiwar comedy had its premiere last year at the Houston Grand Opera.