Sentence examples for operatic forms from inspiring English sources

Of all the various operatic forms, the hardest for a composer to pull off may be the monodrama.

He was able to blend such disparate genres as rock and roll, English music-hall song, and operatic forms into music that had a wide popular appeal.

Ruders's occasional adaptations of traditional operatic forms don't always work: a quartet intoned by the members of the commander's troubled household hardly makes an impression.

To those who ask what material like this is doing in an opera house, I can only reply that this story allowed me to write both opera and folk music at the same time, to invent work songs for modern jobs like dry cleaning, and to find present-day uses for beautiful operatic forms, such as the aubade, or dawn song – which Hassan sings while tending his kebab van.

As he wrote to Jacopo Ferretti, his librettist for Torquato Tasso, 'Success consists of doing little and making that little beautiful, and of not singing a lot and boring the audience.' By inclination, perhaps, a radical, Donizetti never outpaced that audience, developing the operatic forms that he had inherited from Rossini rather than reinventing them.

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.

A duet, another standard operatic form, later had a similar power.

The disruptive influence of the late Robert Ashley, an American maverick who reinvented the operatic form, is still shaking out.

He is a controversial and outspoken defender of the operatic form, and a passionate advocate of opera in English.

It is a tale of how China brought civilization to its barbarous west, rendered in lavish operatic form.

Nonetheless, Adamo, who served as his own librettist on "Little Women," does a brilliant job of molding Alcott's tale into operatic form.