Sentence examples for performed opera from inspiring English sources
Still, Caucasus politics were hardly the reason that Hugues Gall, the director of the Paris Opera, chose to present this rarely performed opera.
The Handel specialist Alan Curtis leads the ensemble Il Complesso Barocco in a buoyant, colorful and ideally paced performance of "Tolomeo," Handel's seldom performed opera about lust, revenge, heartache and false identities.
But with 200 performances scheduled for this year alone, her "Tosca" may become the most often performed opera production ever in Italy, albeit without a costly cast and orchestra in a theater seating thousands.
He did arrangements and also performed opera and pop.
This rarely performed opera even seems unusually ripe for conceptually flamboyant opera direction.
The dramatic force of Tosca and its characters continues to fascinate both performers and audiences, and the work remains one of the most frequently performed operas.
"Aida," one of the most often performed operas here, will be seen this year in its famous 1913 stage design.
In the Manoel theatre, a small, oval construction built in 1731, Italian Knights performed operas while their French counterparts were renowned for comedies.
Britten's 1951 opera Billy Budd was also well received, and was followed in 1954 by The Turn of the Screw which, along with Peter Grimes, has become one of Britten's most performed operas.
You need to be conversant about the most commonly performed operas.
