Sentence examples for penultimate opera from inspiring English sources

The legacy of the late Peter Maxwell Davies, who died four months ago, could not have been better honoured in this brilliant production of his penultimate opera, Kommilitonen! by WNO Youth Opera.

Based on a Pushkin story written in less than two months, Tchaikovsky's penultimate opera is viewed as overly melodramatic by some, while others agree with the composer's assessment: "Either I am horribly mistaken or the opera is a masterpiece".

Based on a Pushkin story, written in less than two months, Tchaikovsky's penultimate opera is viewed as overly melodramatic by some, while others agree with the composer's own assessment, "Either I am horribly mistaken or the opera is a masterpiece".

This week brings Anna Netrebko to the Metropolitan Opera in "Manon," but Karita Mattila will enjoy the spotlight beginning on April 27, when, for the first time at the house, she takes up the role of Emilia Marty, a three-hundred-and-thirty-seven-year-old diva, in Janácek's thrilling, penultimate opera, "The Makropulos Case".

So naturally, the Metropolitan Opera asked him to write program notes for its premiere production of Rossini's penultimate opera and last comedy, "Le Comte Ory," which will be carried live on Saturday in an HD transmission to movie theaters and on the Met's radio network.

We might hear more of Ariane, Martinů's penultimate opera, if it were not so couched in of-its-time, 1950s psychology: the Minotaur is effectively Theseus's alter ego, and the demons he must slay are his own – you know the drill.

In the opera's penultimate scene, the two blissfully glide off in a spaceship.

Gossip Girl's steely robber baron Bart Bass returns from the dead in the penultimate season, a classic soap opera trope.

Though the set might have been a miscalculation, the production conveys the tragedy of this complex opera, epitomized in the penultimate scene.

The ballet in the penultimate scene does nothing to advance the opera's plot or themes, particularly not with Benjamin Millepied's bland new choreography.

For instance: This was followed by Gilbert's penultimate operatic parody, Robert the Devil, a burlesque of Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera, Robert le diable, which was part of a triple bill that opened the Gaiety Theatre, London in 1868.