Sentence examples for stage composer from inspiring English sources
Another eager stage composer, Dvorak, suffered pretty much the same fate.
CHICAGO, Nov. 3 — We live in an especially fertile time for inventive reimaginings of operas by Handel, the greatest stage composer of the Baroque era.
Too late, alas, to hear David Shire, the Oscar-winning film and stage composer, sing a couple of his own songs.
He's restricted himself to Mozart and bel canto roles, and Britten - "the consummate stage composer" - for the next couple of years.
His father is a film and stage composer whose work includes a rock opera, "Orpheus and Eurydice," an operetta version of Chekhov's "Seagull," and a musical, "Lips," based on the Nabokov novel "Laughter in the Dark".
His promising career as a stage composer was cut short when, in 1936, his very successful opera The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, after a novella by Nikolay Leskov, was denounced in Pravda ("Truth"), the official publication of the Communist Party, and banned (not to be performed again until the 1960s).
Paul, as Martin sees it, is the most practical music man of the four, the one most likely to turn into a stage-composer, to become a Richard Rodgers.
Now at New World Stages, composer-lyricists Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe have adapted Daniel Waters' screenplay into a new musical, amplifying its cheerful vulgarity while softening its social critique, replacing black comedy with candy-colored camp.
The 51-year-old show has now been adapted for stage by composer and lyricist Trisha Ward.
She would employ a core of professionals (director, writer, stage manager, composer, designer), yet involve locals as actors (anyone can have a part, but not any part), painters, carpenters, costume and prop-makers, musicians, accountants, caterers, drivers, publicists, printers, box-office helpers, ushers, and even babysitters.
Auguste Vaucorbeil, director of the Opéra, refused to stage the composer's new piece, Hérodiade, judging the libretto either improper or inadequate.
