Sentence examples for western opera from inspiring English sources

The event, Universe of Opera, July 3 to 5, will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the first Western opera, Jacopo Peri's "Dafne," produced in Florence in 1598.

Arias are sung in a very different way from Western opera.

Not that Mr. Youn and Mr. Lee are the only Koreans working in Western opera houses.

Now, Western opera houses are recruiting Russian and Eastern European singers for their own Russian productions.

The wilting heroines who populate western opera could do with some of her spark, I suggest.

"Sergio Leone has this weird western opera thing," Ethan interrupts, "and it's definitely not opera.

And Western opera-lovers stand to benefit as well.

"We know many Western operas," he said afterward, "but our knowledge of the Eastern sphere, especially the Russians, is not great".

Pokrovsky produced all the core Russian and many Western operas, sometimes more than once, as well as rarities such as Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko, Shchedrin's Dead Souls and Rachmaninov's Francesca da Rimini.

Rahbari wants to train a new generation of Iranian conductors and will bring western operas, such as Sister Angelica, to Iran for the first time, presenting them in Persian.

But being immortalized in two Western operas would have delighted this second-rate actress who rose to supreme power as the wife of Mao Zedong, fell into disgrace after Mao's death and stage-managed her own grand finale, hanging herself in her prison cell on May 14 , 1991