Sentence examples for program of opera from inspiring English sources

Last weekend, it pulled together star performers under the auspices of its own New York Peking Opera in a delightful program of opera excerpts.

That is an extraordinary program of opera in America.

The idea of commissioning Mr. Hillborg arose in Sweden during the summer of 2008, when Ms. Fleming performed a program of opera arias with Mr. Gilbert and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

LUGANO, SWITZERLAND — The 2009 edition of the Martha Argerich Project, a three-week event now underway as part of the Lugano Music Festival, is scheduled to close on June 29, with a grand program of opera excerpts.

After a program of opera choruses and Disney classics, the ensemble will close with "America the Beautiful". At one point, Sevdayan said, he intends to have the children's choir members march out into the audience.

Now, the Paris Opera, which manages both houses, has decided to present mixed programs of opera and ballet in each.

It started as a series of school lecture-demonstrations, evolving into programs of opera highlights and emerging as a full-blown opera company in 1984.

(Woolfe) Remarkable Theater Brigade Operaa Shorts (Friday) For those who think that even one-act operas tend to be too long, the Remarkable Theater Brigade, an organization that presents contemporary music and dramatic works, offers another of its programs of opera shorts.

Friday through Sunday at 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m., Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, 899 10th Avenue at 59th Street, Clinton, (212) 721-6500, lincolncenterfestival.org; $45 to $85. (Tommasini) Metropolitan Opera in the Parks (Tuesday and Thursday) The Met presents some of its young singers in programs of opera arias as a summer diversion.

George Jellinek, a former music director of the New York radio station WQXR and the host of a weekly program on opera singers and singing that ran on the station for 36 years, died on Saturday.

A program of German opera excerpts is some people's idea of heaven.