Sentence examples for sing a role from inspiring English sources
It also means that for once a woman gets to sing a role with an actual job, and a creative job at that.
On Tuesday, Ms. Eaglen was always herself: a famous soprano come to the Met to sing a role that few others can, and that will have to do.
The puzzled Callas supposedly asked later, "How can I possibly sing a role that begins with the words 'too many sauces?' " If not apocryphal, Callas's demurral must have been the first sour rejection of a work oversold at its premiere and unfairly pilloried by posterity.
At this level, singing a role is no more an act of "reproduction" than writing it in the first place.
But the challenges of singing a role in Russian seemed to rein her in, while Tchaikovsky's impassioned and elegant idiom ideally suited her richly emotional singing.
'WERTHER' For the first time at the Met, Jonas Kaufmann sings a role that should be ideal for him: the lovesick, despondent hero of Massenet's adaptation of Goethe's tragic novel.
"Oh, somebody might be singing a role for the first time, and it might not lie in their voice quite where they thought it would," he said in an easygoing Scottish brogue.
Every small step -- whether it was actually speaking on a phone without fear, or singing a role well having a success, or giving a comprehensive interview -- each step was a huge triumph over the abuse.
He made history in 1978 by becoming the first African-American man to sing a major role at the Bayreuth Festival, the Dutchman in Wagner's "Fliegende Hollander," which remained a signature role for him.
When are you going to sing a big role?' ".
In so doing, he became the first black man to sing a featured role with a prominent company.
