It hardly takes a brilliant operatic dramaturge to see through this brainless travesty, loaded with irrelevant inventions and non sequiturs. |
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An earlier pair of works convey the operatic extremes of Brooks's passion for Rubinstein. |
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Since 1995 they've been wowing audiences with a crossover style combining their operatic training with Irish folk. |
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The colours are deep and rich and help set an operatic mood and tone for almost every scene. |
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A clean, seamless line is needed for Oh Foolish Fay, which she cannot quite manage with her operatic vibrato. |
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The program was well chosen in the first half, which began with an operatic scena from the 26-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven. |
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Ralph Vaughan Williams's career as an operatic composer began in 1910 with the romantic ballad opera Hugh the Drover. |
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The last thing about the sound-proof door is that it eliminates comments from the family on the operatic talents of the bather. |
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There is a mastery at work that elevates it from yet another crime caper to something almost operatic in scope. |
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In fact here the exclusive use of the operatic septenarius of the iambic type was finally endorsed. |
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Passion, Sondheim's most operatic work, continues to baffle the ear and bemuse the mind. |
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Bolet's touch, velvety yet penetrating, is a miracle, and he caresses each phrase as if it is taken from an operatic aria. |
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The book gives a peep behind the curtains into the life of one of the best known and respected operatic tenors. |
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The sparse dialogue is as mind-numbingly declamatory and unsubtle as political oratory or operatic aria. |
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It is billed as an operatic monodrama in five movements for mezzo-soprano and 10 instruments. |
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But her Justine grounds the movie too much, keeping it an everyday slice of life when it could become a work of unbridled operatic brilliance. |
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Hopkins' hysteria was a sample of America's campus-based indignation industry, which churns out operatic reactions to imagined slights. |
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Above all, it was the slinkily emerging blues finale to Act I that confronted us with Tippett's nerve-tingling operatic genius. |
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Italian solo cantatas of the late 17th and early 18th centuries contained arias on the operatic model. |
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It should be noted that Mozart was hardly kind when scoring the operatic arias for the full lyric soprano. |
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Other musical contributions to the truly enjoyable evening included an operatic aria by Grace Saito. |
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Its range is wide indeed, from operatic aria to rock fantasy via Neapolitan love song and pop ballad. |
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Although less well known than Britten, Tippett's operatic output was in many ways more musically varied and politically challenging. |
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Through the difficult moments she kept herself going by listening to operatic arias or Beatles' compilations over a headset. |
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The concert includes Mozart's Requiem, Missa Brevis, operatic arias and music for the Christmas season. |
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Her voice no longer can do what it used to do in heavy classical music, at least not in concert halls and operatic stages. |
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They also suggest enough power to take on the more popular operatic composers. |
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But she was no stranger to the operatic arias, because her parents often took her to the opera in Monaco, where she grew up. |
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Yet the beauty of Bellini's arias and ensembles would leave a lasting mark on operatic history. |
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From the late seventeenth century the central male operatic role in opera seria was sung by a castrato. |
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But bursts of operatic arias, incessant chatter and the clatter of pots and pans give it a curiously relaxing bustle. |
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In the last few years London has seen a variety of operatic styles in contemporary opera. |
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As regards choral sound, I am not sure that the developed voices of an operatic chorus are ideal in terms of sound quality. |
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While operatic in scale, everything in Anderson's screenplay has a natural ebb and flow to it. |
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Barring any unexpected operatic plot twists down the road, the answer to all these queries is surely yes. |
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Dumas's novel mixes operatic themes with the odd sourly realistic vignette. |
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But peasants had made it to centre stage even in the opera house, and operatic verismo would become an established form. |
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Byrne sings without the usual intense operatic vibrato, and he sounds more heartfelt than ever. |
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The short second act ends with the vow of martyrdom, setting the stage for one of the most hair-raising operatic finales. |
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As well as his operatic numbers he includes among his repertoire a number of Irish songs. |
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His leisure time pursuits included stamp collecting, operatic music, cycling, walking and athletics. |
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In this respect, the piece is operatic and, like opera, is sometimes exaggerated and campy. |
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This is a stylish and vivid piece of baroque operatic theatre, compellingly updated. |
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He is a controversial and outspoken defender of the operatic form, and a passionate advocate of opera in English. |
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Successful operas have powerful, involving stories, even if they're overblown, rhetorical and, indeed, operatic. |
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Charlie is known for hustling hot dogs in operatic style at baseball games. |
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Although 30 is young for a composer's operatic debut on such an international stage, he is something of a past master at facing such pressure. |
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One song will sound like an operatic piece and the next features east coaster John McDermott in a more traditional eastern Canadian piece. |
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In Domingo's view, the operatic boom Spain has suffered has nothing to do with a passing fancy. |
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Nevertheless, a concert of operatic arias and scenes, or a complete concert performance would not have been impossible, of course. |
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Britten's setting is mimetic and operatic, the piano part consisting of a stylisation of the boy's fiddling, notated on one stave only. |
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It marries well with the extreme storytelling and characterisation to give the film a flavour of operatic grandeur. |
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Ritter's one work has harmonic richness and operatic swagger in its florid vocal writing. |
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The years 1820-3 were thus largely taken up with a fruitless pursuit of operatic success. |
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Songs, arias, and operatic scenes are mixed together, and that works well too. |
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It was diving into the operatic headfirst and that may have been a mistake. |
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Leakes has one of the loudest voices in the Western Hemisphere, something between an operatic soprano and an air-raid siren. |
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A gilded fountain played in the central stage, two sopranos sang operatic duets while the New Zealand School of Dance, in medieval-style costumes, danced around the fountain. |
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This time, as well as operatic arias, Caruso included some Italian songs. |
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In those days, each operatic diva had fiercely partisan fans. |
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The Munich-based label has made a name for itself with its discs of live recordings, mostly operatic, taken from more than half a century of Salzburg festivals. |
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Apparently Krams intends to use her small sculptures as maquettes for life size figures which will all take part in a yet-to-be-written operatic event. |
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Erik is a mere operatic tenor lover, and his cavatinas have tunefulness enough, without a trace of the warmth of melody which characterises Wagner's later works. |
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With some of it, Michelle is right and the other part is the operatic thing. |
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This compilation includes operatic arias and crossover songs. |
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Simon Over, organist of St.Margaret's, Westminster and already one of the UK's most capable young accompanists and operatic repetiteurs, makes his operatic conducting debut. |
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Donald Maxwell is a seasoned operatic buffo, who nicely cherishes, relishes and polishes his pontificating arias, with chorus usually dancing attendance. |
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From the classical to pantomime, from light operatic to sacred music, philharmonic orchestras to brass bands, musicals to pop, week by week Bolton displays its culture. |
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But I do agree with you about the exquisiteness of some operatic arias. |
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She was already an established singer at the Opera, and many other composers had family connections with male musicians active on the operatic scene. |
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This one, he told media previewers, would be his most operatic. |
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I'm thinking less of the huge, operatic rooms hung with stalactites, than the narrow windings that might end in a wall or a cliff or a small pool where tiny, blind fish swim. |
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Martin Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street is operatic in its unapologetic depravity. |
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Liz's vocals range from operatic to grunge, I play flute and kick drum at the same time and Jodie plays around with different rhythms on the cello. |
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By the early eighteenth century, operatic juxtapositions came to be seen as part of a standard order of representation, weakening the original shock-effect of the genre. |
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This is the kind of soprano voice the operatic world has been praying for! |
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Some of this singing is a little more operatic than it needs to be, but America's embrace is broad enough to hold the diva, the heldentenor, and more besides. |
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As well as these tinsel tales, there are large numbers of records, still being slowly translated, which provide a complement to the operatic version of Persian history. |
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He quickly established an accessible, repeatable operatic formula, combining situation comedy plots with the frequent arias demanded by his audiences. |
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This is staged documentary, its narrative gleaned from personal statements, in essence, a theatre of personal anecdote, performance art on an operatic scale. |
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The Yeomen of the Guard, the most operatic of Sullivan's scores with Gilbert, and the most serious of Gilbert's librettos, has been lucky on records. |
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Beck may not be the first repentant Republican, but he is certainly the most operatic, a kind of comic Pavarotti of the right. |
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With its fascinating, exquisitely drawn characters and almost operatic sweep, it's the kind of play serious theatergoers hunger for. |
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The early operetta Paul Bunyan stands apart from Britten's later operatic works. |
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Britten's first operatic recording was The Turn of the Screw, made in January 1955 with the original English Opera Group forces. |
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Vaughan Williams had been working on and off for many years on his operatic version of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. |
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She takes on the role of Anne Langley, a former operatic rival to Jean Horton, played by Maggie Smith. |
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As a result, Price made her operatic debut in 1962, singing Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro at the Welsh National Opera. |
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The single featured Tyler's mother's operatic vocals on the intro to the song. |
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Venice has played an important role in the history of symphonic and operatic music, and it is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi. |
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Henry Bishop's Weber-influenced score for Manfred entails a good deal of resectioning of the text, and is quite operatic in character. |
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Their expressionism is virtual, and is in fact beside their operatic aesthetic point. |
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In the slow movements she sculpts a purposeful edge to the decorative filigree, a transmutation of operatic fioritura into pianistic terms. |
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The program was bookended by two operatic comedy shorts starring Mark McKinney and Barbara Hannigan. |
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Premiered in Munich in 1942, Capriccio was Strauss's farewell to the operatic stage and is viewed today by many as his masterpiece. |
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In this documentary, Placido Domingo reflects upon what he considers to he the ten greatest operatic roles of his career. |
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In 1989 they took over the old boy's building of Wells Blue School, where they put on a variety of operatic and other productions. |
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As well as the ultra-evil operatic Sally Bones, a counter tenor sings the mystical Jalal the Paw and a bass sings the dog Cludge. |
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But her voice was overly operatic for a musical and frequently off key, though I thoroughly enjoyed her climactic duet with Elrich. |
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Young musicians who can play ocarinas are being desperately sought by an operatic society. |
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She has a graceful musicality, and an innate ability to respond idiomatically to the mainstream composers of the operatic repertoire. |
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That operatic temptress Carmen enjoyed the odd glass of Manzanilla. |
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Richard Angas, who died last summer, was a leading operatic bass. |
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Both the school of music and Opera on the Avalon produce operatic works. |
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The Gaiety specialises in musical and operatic productions, and also opens its doors after the evening theatre production to host a variety of live music, dancing, and films. |
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This revival began to have a major impact on classical music, with the development of what was in effect a national school of orchestral and operatic music in Scotland. |
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Finally, musicals usually avoid certain operatic conventions. |
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In this corner, the operatic heavyweight from Modena, Italy, Luciano Pavarotti! And in this corner, that Iberian emoter, champeen tenor Placido Domingo! |
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