Sentence examples for performing opera from inspiring English sources
In the 19th century performing opera in translation was standard practice.
Mr. Terfel said he had noticed considerable differences between performing opera and musical theater.
Many purists contend that performing opera in translation is artistic sacrilege.
Asked about the differences between performing opera and musical theater, Mr. Nolen replied: "In theater you have to act.
"We have quite a tradition of performing opera in English here," Mr. Moores said recently from his London home.
One down side of the popularity of titles has been to marginalize the venerable practice of performing opera in translation.
The Metropolitan Opera began performing operas in the parks in 1967 but stopped in 2008 to save money, presenting recitals instead.
His operas let singers do what they have been trained to do, and what they do in the theater when not performing operas by contemporary composers.
The idea comes from the contemporaneous practice in Rome — where church influence was strong — of performing operas with all-male casts.
The one downside of the growth of supertitles and other simultaneous-translation systems at the opera house has been a decline in the honored tradition of performing operas in English translation.
Still, Caucasus politics were hardly the reason that Hugues Gall, the director of the Paris Opera, chose to present this rarely performed opera.
