Sentence examples for operatic society from inspiring English sources

He was a choirboy as a child and met his wife, Alison, through an operatic society in the 1970s.

There was an operatic society summer concert when I was 13, and they were doing a Wicked medley.

The two come together through Guy Jones, a lonely widower who joins the local operatic society to play the lowly role of Crook-Fingered Jack in The Beggar's Opera.

In the 50s he had directed an amateur operatic society in Chingford, Essex, and back in Lancashire he succeeded his father as director of the Rossendale Male Voice Choir in 1976.

Meanwhile, in 1975, he married Alison, a dance and games teacher he met through the Barnes and Richmond amateur operatic society, and had two daughters, Polly and Camilla, now 19 and 17.

The youngest of nine children, Boe spent most of his early adolescence more interested in playing football than performing but, in later years, realised the importance of his early exposure to classical music from his parents and his sister, who, when he reached the age of 14, encouraged him to join an amateur operatic society.

Before I was in the BBC I mainly sang in local operatic societies and musical theatre.

With four chapters devoted to the extraordinary bass, tenor, soprano, and mezzo stars who worked with composers to establish the stock characters and vocal conventions of this repertoire, I argue that art imitated life: these singers transmuted their own real-life experiences of Russian society into operatic portrayals that resonated with the controversies of their time.

Gay caricatures the government, fashionable society, marriage, and Italian operatic style.

The entire craze reached a sort of bathetic crescendo in 1893 with the staging of Gilbert & Sullivan's operatic take on the genre entitled Utopia Limited, which employed an imaginary society to satirise limited liability companies.

He was not a great speaker, but he had this essence and also this operatic presentation of himself, and that had an effect on large sections of society.