Sentence examples for operatic setting from inspiring English sources

It had its French premiere on Monday in the very operatic setting of the Palais Garnier.

Once again, the immediate appeal of what might seem an unpromising source for operatic setting is amply confirmed.

The operatic setting, in two acts, highlights all the finagling and petty jealousies in the story but seems unable to get at the deep underlying emotions.

One highlight is an almost operatic setting of a Rosalía de Castro poem, "Lúa Descolorida" ("Colorless Moon"), sung ravishingly by Jessica Rivera.

Before he could write it, though, he accepted a commission from the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., for an operatic setting of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".

The folle journée or crazy day of Beaumarchais's play becomes time well spent in City Opera's traditional and effective production of Mozart's operatic setting of it.

She was a talented amateur pianist, and had a number of friends in the musical and operatic set of Chicago.

Though he had never been to an opera house before, watching videoed performances he found operatic sets "even heavier and denser than reality.

The glossy, magisterial New York depicted in "Hudsucker" with operatic sets and tricky special-effects shots has more to do with production values than with the plot about a small-town hick who rises to become head of a corporation.

But with the exception of an operatic set-piece in which Mrs Thatcher agrees to grace a party at the Feddens, and Nick, by now spinning like a top, asks her for a dance, Mr Hollinghurst's Tory London is peopled only with caricatures, porky vessels as noisy as they are empty.

His 1956 recording of La bohème, with Victoria de los Ángeles and Jussi Björling, has seldom been out of the catalogues since its release and received more votes than any other operatic set in a 1967 symposium of prominent critics.