Sentence examples for ritual opera from inspiring English sources

The legend acquired new life in 1903, when Rimsky-Korsakov, working with his librettist Vladimir Belsky, made it the basis of a post-Wagnerian ritual opera.

A great step forward, although one that was hard fought against by the strong resistance of orthodox operatic thinking that railed against the mystique and ritual of opera being destroyed.

Subjects included Native American ritual music, Peking opera, Japanese Noh drama, and jazz.

The act of going to the movies itself will likely become an expensive, high-culture sort of ritual, like the opera.

This Sunday's In All Languages program will focus on exploring a variety of forms of Tibetan music, ranging from Buddhist ritual music, to opera, to contemporary recordings by Tibetan artists in exile.

Twentieth-century composers dreamed of a new kind of theatre that would bridge the gap between opera and ritual.

For a nonbeliever, Verdi provided a fair imitation of Roman Catholic ritual in "Aida," an opera of processions and prayers.

The ensemble was ready to premiere its "processional" opera — a ritual journey through the afterlife, where the audience would be led through the grounds of the Getty Villa after dark.

Opera — which used to be called "grand opera" — was a ritual target of American comedy.

Shi Yukun's staging is clean and spare, allowing the rich rituals of the Peking opera tradition to flourish.

This is opera of contemplation, ritual and slow spectacle.