Sentence examples for piece of opera from inspiring English sources

The BBC was broadcasting a piece of opera history - the first ever performance of Alban Berg's Lulu in its entirety.

When I was in the record industry, 250,000 CD sales was a grand slam home run for a traditional piece of opera repertory.

I have also heard this dish called polpettone, and pastìccio – which comes from the latin pastīcium, originally signifying a filled pie, but has been adopted to describe various things: a piece of opera comprising work from many a composer; an unclear intellectual idea or theory; or simply a confused and messy situation.

Driscoll said that familiarizing people with even small pieces of opera music -- "whether it's [through] YouTube, whether it's social media, whether it's sampling an aria" -- will get people interested in opera.

"It's a piece of the opera I don't have too much respect for," the director said.

Liang, who composed the piece of the opera sung by police woman Rose, says that for him the content struck close to home.

"Rule, Britannia!" was the climactic piece of the opera and quickly became a "jingoistic" British patriotic song celebrating "Britain's supremacy offshore".

Robinson entered the professional operatic scene at a time when London audiences were enamored with Italian opera; she made her operatic debut at the Queen's Theatre in the pasticcio (an opera built from pieces of other operas) Creso on January 27 , 1714

It will take you only a day or two to finish the first volume — less than you would spend doing income taxes, reading about which tedious celebrity mediocrity slept with which other nonentity, or watching the latest piece of trash soap opera.

It's also a production that, in Stephen Brimson Lewis's design and Paul Pyant's lighting, looks handsome: the appearance of the three goddesses is particularly well done as a piece of neo-Handelian opera with Juno seen standing on top of a fan-decorated bridge.

One of Musgrave's most powerful operas, from 1977, is a viscerally communicative piece that generations of opera-goers in the UK – and in the US, where Musgrave now lives – should have the chance to experience in the opera house.