Sentence examples for operatic engagements from inspiring English sources
After all, one of her explanations for drastically limiting her operatic engagements in the 1990s — arguably her vocal prime — was her desire to remain close to home in Illinois while Elisabeth was in school.
Aside from his operatic engagements, he maintained an active solo-concert schedule, with German art songs, as heard on his recordings Strauss Lieder (2006) and Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin (2009), remaining among his specialties.
The performances catapulted Mr. Owens, 41, to new levels of popularity and media recognition, resulting in increased attention for his operatic engagements and for concert performances like the recital he will present at Zankel Hall on Tuesday evening.
The beauty, range, and flexibility of Norman's vibrant soprano voice assured her further operatic engagements, the most notable being the title role in Aïda in productions in Berlin and at La Scala in Milan and the role of Cassandra in Hector Berlioz's Les Troyens (The Trojans; Covent Garden, 1972).
After a year of study in Milan, Cary overcame her moral misgivings about opera and accepted an operatic engagement in Copenhagen, where she made her debut in January 1868 in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
Significantly, when Bartoli tells me of her forthcoming plans, she speaks not of a recital tour or an operatic engagement, even though her diary teems with them, but that she is going to curate the Salzburg Whitsun festival in 2012 – as if to say there is more to life and she would be kinder to herself and career to step off the endless globetrotting drudgery of recitals.
But they don't have the operatic sweep of "Whale Wars," in which miniature naval engagements unfold, and much of the action takes place in the gray areas of international law and acceptable maritime practice.
The passionate engagement with the phenomenon of the superhuman voice seems to be the great constant in operatic history.
Those operatic high notes!
They're operatic, almost".
