Mr. Walter's bluegrass score, filled with energetic fiddling and earnest ballads, also leavens the proceedings.
But the score, filled with Puccini's Italianate brand of Viennese waltzes and some wistfully beautiful melodies, wins you over.
Martha Colby composed a score filled with melancholy songlike melodies, played by Karen Waltuch, a violist, and Ms. Colby, a cellist.
With an orchestra of 120 musicians and a score filled with huge challenges, it is a conductor's dream come true.
The latest free summer production from Theatreworks USA, "The Yellow Brick Road" features a young Latina heroine, Dora Inez Garza, and a score filled with salsa and merengue tunes.
Faced with Ms. Tan's libretto, rich with Chinese symbolism and largely set in old China, and with Mr. Wallace's score, filled with traditional Chinese instruments and musical influences, Mr. Chen, the only one of the three born and raised in China, found himself wanting to gain a little distance from his native culture.
Clearly benefiting from the experience of "Jérusalem," Verdi, in "Vêpres," smoothly combined the French style and his own in a score filled with touches that feel uniquely his: the crushing winds in Hélène and Henri's first love duet, in Act II, and the pearlescent accompaniment to their second, in Act IV.
But I was held by the visuals and an ominous score filled with the sound of creaking, groaning wood.
The score for Inception was written by Hans Zimmer, who described his work as "a very electronic, dense score", filled with "nostalgia and sadness" to match Cobb's feelings throughout the film.
Although the opera offers lots of drama and a score filled with colorful music — Lyric Opera Baltimore has engaged a promising cast and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to deliver it — "Va, pensiero" is the passage that compels extra attention.
