Sentence examples for stage diva from inspiring English sources

As the tantrum-tossing stage diva Lilli Vanessi, Carolee Carmello demonstrates a refreshingly playful side that matches the improbable variety in Porter's score and lyrics.

This year, Ms. Bening, 46, is back as a best-actress front-runner, thanks to her turn as an aging British stage diva in "Being Julia".

There's more than one ham in residence on the country estate where Madame Arkadina, the emotive stage diva from Chekhov's "Seagull," flamboyantly spends her down time.

Last year Ms. Scott Thomas won an Olivier Award (the British Tony) for playing just such a character — the stage diva Arkadina in Chekhov's "Seagull" — and on Thursday she makes her Broadway debut in the role.

Still to come are the casting of two roles: the stage diva Helen Sinclair, played on film by Dianne Wiest in an Oscar-winning performance, and the gangster Cheech, a role for which Chazz Palminteri received an Oscar nomination.

In it, he even managed to make Bette Davis funny, giving her the self-parodying role of a haughty stage diva whose fawning admirer (Anne Baxter), the title character, horns in on her life and her art.

On stage the diva will be dressed by Jean-Paul Gaultier.

That Sylvie Guillem, the Royal's longtime French ballerina, would hold the stage with diva presence was expected.

Ms. Leavel, who appeared as a stage-devouring diva in "Drowsy Chaperone," proves herself capable of commanding plenty of attention in a less bravura role as the company's mother hen (a bizarrely glamorous mother hen, in chic deco dresses by Gregg Barnes).

Part musical history and part back-stage-pass, Divas and Scholars will not only enthrall aficionados of Italian opera but also newcomers seeking a more reliable introduction to it.

Moments before hitting the stage, the American diva wrote to her adoring fans on Twitter: "I can hear you Korea.