Sentence examples for operatic success from inspiring English sources

Prokofiev's first major operatic success, "The Gambler," realistically staged by Andrea Breth, is presented in December.

The same music is played in the same rebuilt concert halls, and a theatrical or operatic success still stimulates lively conversation.

"One could argue," he writes, "that it took the death of Verdi, and perhaps Puccini, to release Italy from the stranglehold of operatic success".

ANNE MIDGETTE 'LA CENA DELLE BEFFE' The title's a clunker, the opera's obscure, and yet this "Dinner of Jests" marked a big return to operatic success for Umberto Giordano in 1924 after a long string of failures.

"She was aware of this herself and had been heard to say that she might have had the same operatic success if she had only been able to have her voice trained".

Saturday night's concert traced Wagner's ascent to operatic success, from insertion arias written for Marschner's "Vampyr" and, audaciously, Bellini's "Norma" (a flamboyant number for Oroveso, rejected by the singer for whom it was written) to familiar selections from "The Flying Dutchman," "Tannhäuser" and "Lohengrin," presented in clustered excerpts that Wagner arranged for concert performance.

La principessa fedele (1710), Scipione nelle Spagne (1714), and Il Tigrane (1715) are among his principal operatic successes of this period.

But Kent comes to Mozart's masterpiece with a string of recent operatic successes behind him: Britten's The Turn of the Screw as well as the The Fairy Queen at Glyndebourne, Puccini's Tosca at the Royal Opera House, Thomas Adès's The Tempest in Santa Fe and Elektra at the Mariinsky theatre in St Petersburg.

Audiences will track them down on cable because they are so rewarding.' To what does he attribute the popularity of big network shows such as Desperate Housewives and Lost? 'They're very character-based and soap operatic, and their success is partly a reaction to more procedural shows [like L&O, where there's little character development].

BUT Ms. Story, who is herself black, sees black success on the operatic stage as something that requires continued cultivation.

February 13 , 1920Willimantic, Connecticut March 23 , 2002Park Ridge, New Jersey Eileen Farrell, (born February 13 , 1920 Willimantic, Connecticut, U.S. died March 23 , 2002 Park Ridge, New Jersey) American soprano who achieved success in both operatic and popular music.