Sentence examples for operatic structure from inspiring English sources

Set in Queensland in the early 1980s, the diffuse and episodic narrative of Bliss might have seemed impossible to reconcile with a standard operatic structure.

Can the way the text was written be mirrored in an operatic structure that is also nonconformist?" Despite the "almost inextricable link between the history and the theatre", between Kane's life and death and the play, Venables was adamant that they didn't want to "produce a biopic.

Yet, the advanced contemporary composers of the time considered the work hopelessly derivative, and disdained the very qualities in the score that made it popular: lushly tonal harmonic language, sumptuous melodic writing, a traditional operatic structure complete with set-piece ensembles, highly charged dramatic recitative and arias calculated to stop the show and elicit applause.

Wagner's later musical style introduced new ideas in harmony, melodic process (leitmotif) and operatic structure.

The first of these works was A Village Romeo and Juliet, a music drama which departs from the normal operatic structure of acts and scenes and tells its story of tragic love in a series of tableaux.

His operatic structures are so deliberately conceived that cutting out bits here and there disrupts the flow and can actually make the operas seem longer.

Adopting something of the soap-operatic structure of Pedro Almodovar movies, "A Civilized People" dwells on a dozen or so characters whose lives are variously battered and twisted by the war.

Danspace Project remounts the beguiling suite of dances, set to operatic arias and structured around the coming together and pulling apart of groups of men and women.

That is, they were verbatim settings of pre-existing stage dramas, in which the whole idea of dramma per musica -- drama adapted to musical purposes -- was scrapped in the name of "truth," and problems of operatic "form" and libretto structure were circumvented.

He isn't the only symbolic character in a film that combines an allegorical structure with an operatic style that pushes every dramatic situation to the extreme.

Inspired by the Shakespearean poem, Mr. Henze and his librettist, Hans-Ulrich Treichel, have expanded the story into an operatic psychodrama with an exquisitely ornate structure.