Sentence examples for too much opera from inspiring English sources

"I don't want to do too much opera.

Following each divorce, Zuckerman came to think of dating as a distraction: too many museums, too much opera, too much sex — not enough time to write.

Andre Tchaly from Kingston thought the band's music was "over-classified, too much like opera".

Too much soap opera colors its love story, and the industrial-strength dancing by booted men that is its centerpiece falls short of exhilaration.

But too much of the opera feels expository, and the characters rarely reveal themselves naturally through song.

Heggie assimilates the mass of verbiage thrown his way, though often he seems to be scurrying to keep up: too much of the opera consists of breathless recitative.

But as with too much contemporary American opera, the vocal lines, stranded between speaking and singing, dissonance and tonal lyricism, leave sen-TEN-ces with odd, stil-TED STRESS-es.

If all that sounds like a plot from a run-of-the-mill British TV detective series with a female protagonist (Lynda La Plante's Prime Suspect perhaps), then that is unfortunately what all too much of the opera seems to be, with the rather leaden text sung rather than spoken, and Muhly's music provdiing the tasteful backdrop.

Too much of the opera's astonishing depth went unrecognized in Ojai's juvenile production.

"I hate recurring characters – it limits the jokes and becomes too much like a soap opera.

Rossini opens both halves with too much buffa, not enough opera.