Sentence examples for playing opera from inspiring English sources
To have an orchestra of that caliber playing opera on a nightly basis was an immense luxury.
It was like he was playing opera music, like he had a prima donna in his arms".
Mr. Boiangiu, an experienced sailor, showed no sign of embarrassment, loudly playing opera while he tethered his boat back to the dock and gave his insurance information to Mr. Donnelly.
When Cellar Door arrived in a mutated form at London's ICA, Greaud created three identical black rooms, fitted with freakish black speaker-pods playing opera, where male triplets served black champagne.
Instead, we got obscure snippets of repertoire from the past century in various configurations of wind, brass, piano and percussion – presumably the musicians available for the Scotland trip, given that another portion of the ensemble was simultaneously playing opera in Germany.
This attribute surely stems from the circumstances of the orchestra's work life; it spends most of its time playing operas (especially Russian works) and ballet scores in the theater pit.
It was wonderful; they used to play opera and sing.
In the car travelling back to Lisbon, he played opera, in Paris he bought her clothes.
The festival was founded in 1967 by the Philharmonic's conductor, Herbert von Karajan, as a place for it to play opera.
After her movie career, during which she often played opera stars, she went on to perform in actual operas, primarily in summer theaters.
