In this, Beloved works something like The Trial or The Metamorphosis.
This year, however, brings a new beginning, as Daniel Hyde, the noted British choirmaster who was hired to replace the late John Scott, takes his first New York crack at the beloved work.
The palm, though, went to Noseda, for making something memorable and vivid and sincere out of this oft-heard and deservedly beloved work.
Those were the words spoken early and often by Westley, a farm boy quietly besotted with a maiden named Buttercup in "The Princess Bride". Taken together, Goldman's 1973 fantasy novel and the 1987 screenplay he adapted from it became perhaps the most widely beloved work of this prolific novelist, screenwriter and consummate industry insider, who died Friday at 87.
So it was a fitting gesture, if also affordable, to return to this beloved Puccini work.
This is the second film adaptation of Plath's most beloved work.
He's a stylistic acrobat, and "Cloud Atlas" is his most beloved work for good reason.
Tuesday night's opening gala began with "Esplanade," Mr. Taylor's most beloved work, which brought, alas, almost all of the evening's pleasure.
The androgyne figure in his most beloved work, "Esplanade" (1975), is marvelously ambiguous — but it's also an idea that has led nowhere.
"This 'Jane Eyre,' " A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in March, "is a splendid example of how to tackle the daunting duty of turning a beloved work of classic literature into a movie".
