Sentence examples for operatic ensemble from inspiring English sources

The coming concert could well prove to be the moment when the ROH Orchestra began its journey to become recognised as a great symphonic as well as operatic ensemble.

Mr. Holmes's rich pudding of a score contains plenty of nuggets redolent with period charm: the soaring ballad "Moonfall"; "Perfect Strangers," a melancholy duet for Edwin and Rosa; and the flavorsome operatic ensemble number "No Good Can Come From Bad," to single out my favorites.

There were new productions of Falstaff and Il Trovatore at Covent Garden in 1961 and 1964, but at the latter it was already apparent that the uncertainties and practical difficulties of live operatic performance were becoming incompatible with Giulini's fastidious, perfectionist methods of preparation, and passionate concern for the operatic ensemble as a whole.

It's one reason why they knock you flat, and remain one of the greatest operatic ensembles in the world.

In extended passages Mr. Current uses the voices almost like instruments, producing set pieces that seem less like operatic ensembles and more like strange hybrid orchestral compositions with vocal components.

Revie, Harewood wrote, "welded together an ensemble – that is what a team is – which was the envy of others, and he and I used sometimes to talk into the night about how you build football teams and operatic ensembles and then inspire them so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts".

By couching the family's struggle into standard operatic forms — arias, ensemble numbers — Vavrek gives convincing shape to the two-hour-plus-long work, making a virtue of the need to elaborate.

He had a powerful singing voice and became involved with operatic and other ensembles, but decided not to pursue a career as a singer, taking a teaching qualification instead.

Mr. Cohen's lyrics, often laden with social messages, sometimes substitute sounds for words, voiced by operatic voices in the ensemble.

A pair of accomplished operatic vocalists will join the ensemble, separately: Maria Farantouri, a contralto widely celebrated in her native Greece, and Alicia Hall Moran, a mezzo-soprano known in some circles for her recent work in "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" (and in certain others as Mr. Moran's wife and collaborator).

The work combines, in a new and sometimes awkward way, the basic structure of opera seria with the ensembles characteristic of newer operatic genres and even the short, piquant melodies of singspiels like "Die Zauberflöte".