| 单词 | operatic |
| 例句 | I just have to find some way to make it as entertaining as a cello solo, an operatic aria, or a magic trick. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z A simple cricket, no longer than half my little finger—which is rather long because I play the piano—but a cricket that is able to chirp operatic, symphonic, and popular music. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z When he had finished all the operatic numbers, he stopped. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly some one passed below, whistling like an operatic blackbird, and a voice called out, “All serene! Coming in tonight.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z If, for Italians, the supreme expression of their love of music was the emotionally charged operatic aria, for Russians it was dance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The other centre of operatic style in the nineteenth century was Paris, though French opera at that time was essentially a grander version of Italian opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z ‘Will the sun forget to streak?’ is no hysterical outburst of operatic tragedy, nor is it a plaint of sentimental, self-indulgent misery. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The wordless song had the power of an operatic aria mingled with the sweetness of a lullaby. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Its vocal ranges were operatic, its naturalistic acting style more like that of a play, its structure of spoken plot-carrying scenes interspersed with verse-chorus- designed songs akin to those in musicals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Do re meeee…” His voice cracks into a high, operatic pitch before he can even get to the next note. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z After the folk songs came a group of operatic arias. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, these were richly allegorical stories with plenty of incident and emotional impact but without extravagant, over-egged operatic acting to embarrass the English. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There was to be a grand dinner, and then our music-master, Mr. 13-04, would lead a band and singers in a brief operatic divertissement, delectable to the taste of His Lordship. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As violent crime began to fall dramatically, New Yorkers were more than happy to heap laurels on their operatic, Brooklyn-bred mayor and his hatchet-faced police chief with the big Boston accent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Lady Constance’s voice rose steadily in pitch as she spoke, like an operatic soprano la-la-la-ing her way up the scale. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z It’s a purposely blunt work, a radio-play version of Mr. Glass’s operatic style, smartly suited to the fable-like nature of the underlying tale. The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z “We are extremely proud of maintaining Philip’s genius in the operatic firmament,” Koelsch said. L.A. Opera announces 2018-19 season with 'Satyagraha,' 'Titus' and Off Grand world premieres 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z He made his operatic debut for the English Opera Group in 1966 when he performed the role of Quint in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw. Operatic tenor Robert Tear dies 2011-03-29T12:43:24Z And so the talented Mr. Keckler, 28, who trained as a classical singer and defines himself as an interdisciplinary artist, recounts his surreal tale operatically: that is, he sings. Theater Review: ‘I Am an Opera,’ by Joseph Keckler 2013-04-25T00:14:49Z Once it is determined that there is no money or space for housing potential evacuees, Nina, whom Ms. Surkova imbues with an operatic ferocity, faces an acute moral crisis. Review: ‘The Fool’ Is Yuri Bykov’s Look at Corruption 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z With only two singers, one spoken part and one instrument —the piano, played by Mr. Kastle — it was the ultimate in operatic miniaturization. Leonard Kastle, Composer and Filmmaker, Dies at 82 2011-05-22T02:23:04Z Ms. Sullivan, who represents the Viennese side of the show’s cultural equation, is operatically trained. Music Review: ‘Vienna to Weimar,’ K T Sullivan and Karen Kohler at Triad 2012-10-22T04:20:05Z The soap operatic relationships at the core of New Labour are traced with reasonable accuracy. The Third Man by Peter Mandelson 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z It works best when Davis commands the screen with her inimitable blend of psychological subtlety and operatic intensity. ‘Widows’ Review: Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Well-upholstered sopranos and tenors might continue to stalk the operatic stage, but with the filming of performances becoming increasingly popular, it was the likes of Hofmann and Altmeyer that were now in demand. Peter Hofmann obituary 2010-12-02T18:44:00Z One, the Avignon Festival, is a bustling, overcrowded celebration of theater; the other, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, offers a more genteel operatic lineup. At Glamorous French Festivals, Poverty is Only Onstage 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z The baddie, too, is less operatic: Michael Keaton plays a more or less regular guy who turned super-villain. Tom Holland Was Born to Be Spider-Man. Playing Peter Parker Was Another Story. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Noseda, an Italian-born conductor who has worked extensively in opera, boldly draws out the score’s operatic elements, as in his stunning account of the fitful Dies Irae, while vividly conveying its overall organic structure. Britten’s ‘War Requiem’ by Gianandrea Noseda 2012-09-29T23:03:03Z Overall, though, you have to admire the scope and ambition of this operatic saga – even if there are a few bum notes during the arias. The Heart Broke In by James Meek - review 2012-08-24T07:00:01Z The medium is cruel to singers, with the closeups of an operatic mouth at full throttle giving us an unwanted insight into the life of an ear, nose and throat specialist. Proms 2013: should classical music concerts be televised? 2013-07-12T11:39:12Z Honegger was the better composer, while Ibert proved the more operatically engaging. Expect the unexpected on recordings of Kent Nagano and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The mostly mournful tunes convey operatic levels of emotion but with a much subtler delivery, often accompanied only by guitar. Hair-raising performance at Iberian Suite festival 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The film was never made, but Arnold saw its operatic potential and Mendoza used his screenplay to create the opera libretto. Maclom Arnold's The Dancing Master finally comes in from the cold 2012-10-11T10:57:48Z The New Yorker critic Alex Ross called that staging, which returned most recently in 2019, “the most witless and wasteful production in modern operatic history.” The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z “So one thing I’ve tried really hard to do is keep the humor in there, to maintain the feeling, amid all the heavy operatic moments, that you’re on a fun ride.” What we learned from Vanity Fair's Star Wars: The Last Jedi issue 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z But it was telling that she made her entrance with stock gestures familiar from operatic “Carmens”: striding over to a pool of water and blotting her sweaty brow with a wet handkerchief. A jazzed-up ‘Carmen’ goes where Carmens have gone before 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z In the dramatic intensity and psychological and vocal nuances Ms. Richter brought to this study of a guilt-tormented soul at night, there were bright flashes of a promising operatic talent in the making. Anna Lucia Richter Sings Hugo Wolf’s Lieder 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Existing somewhere between the informality of the pop-up concert and the pomp of the major symphonic or operatic showcase, these are sorely missed, too. The Thrill of a Contemporary Classical Concert, Captured on Disc 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z On Facebook, Domingo, the Spanish operatic tenor, paid tribute to Mr. Okun as “the man with great vision that firmly believed in me and gave me my breakthrough role in the world of pop music.” Milt Okun, music impresario who spanned pop, folk and opera, dies at 92 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Its seamless integration, curiously, also called to mind a more familiar tradition: the old-fashioned operatic overture. Music Review: A Soundtrack to a Collaboration That Never Was 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z Although composer Fisher dubs the piece an "opera," his classically trained singers employ a sound that's more ecclesiastical than conventionally operatic. Review: Seattle's Fisher Ensemble says yes to Noh in 'Kocho' 2011-04-09T19:31:05Z As bel canto parodies go you can hardly do better than “Pinafore,” which toys with several classic operatic plot turns. Music Review: Sailing a Saucy Ship Into Bel Canto Seas 2011-06-26T22:09:05Z Burgess' operatic reimagining of his most famous novel was composed 26 years ago, but has never been staged in full. Clockwork Orange songs make debut 2012-06-29T05:50:34Z It’s a self-conscious nod, from Guettel and Lucas, to their uncommon fusion of operatic melodrama with the psychological realism of contemporary musical theater. ‘The Light in the Piazza’ Review: Outside, Looking In at Love 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z There is operatic intensity in such command and restraint. Review: Mahler, Distilled by Classical Music’s Greatest Duo 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z “Brothers” is dense with plot in the Bollywood way: two long, operatic flashbacks in the first half provide the back story. Review: ‘Brothers ... Blood Against Blood,’ Set in the Mean Streets of Mumbai 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z When, with Richard Wagner, orchestral and operatic music began to consider itself superior, universal and difficult, Ross explained in a 1996 New Yorker essay, "it stumbled badly in the new democratic marketplace." The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z The piece is epic, it's so operatic in its theatricality. ENO joins pioneering theatre company for East End opera 2010-03-31T14:40:00Z Establishing “Porgy” as a secure part of the operatic repertory is one of his proudest achievements. David Gockley, Opera Impresario, Hangs Up His Cloak 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The original version of “Le Grand Macabre,” with long spans of spoken dialogue, came across almost as operatic cabaret. Music Review: The Philharmonic?s Challenge: Merely the End of the World 2010-05-28T18:13:00Z An operatic aria of sleaze and slaughter, “Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich” reboots the deadly-doll franchise that began in 1989 with the campy “Puppet Master.” Review: ‘Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich’ Releases Murderous Nazi Dolls 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z In operatic terms, almost everything functions as recitative, little as aria. Opera Review: Opera Celebrates Bum Phillips, Who Led the Houston Oilers 2014-03-21T22:01:54Z First performed in 1843, Wagner's operatic treatment of the legend, which is recognised as his first masterpiece, was really the work in which he first revealed his potential as a composer for the stage. This week's new live music 2012-12-15T00:05:21Z After stints in several choirs, he began singing small operatic roles at regional houses. Salvatore Licitra, Tenor at the Met, Dies at 43 After Crash 2011-09-05T18:55:08Z They could even be called operatic because of their vocal demands. A Busy Baritone Gets Ready for a New ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z In one of the earliest videos, Miranda pompously demonstrates a series of incorrect singing tips with her eyebrows arched, her mouth twisted into a quivering operatic “O,” and her voice pitched deliciously off-key. “Miranda Sings” and the Exhausting Aspects of Having a Viral Persona 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z It also involves arias, ensembles, melodies and heightened emotion — all familiar tools in the operatic arsenal. ‘Dead Man Walking’ is a new opera for old audiences 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z When she says that it seems as if he hasn’t taken a shower in a while, he responds with operatic self-pity. The Sociopathic Comedy of Brett Davis 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Wainwright was on hand to play his music and to explain, more or less, what the operatic excerpts were about. Music Review: Wainwright Offers Taste of Opera 2011-06-29T21:54:02Z “Fiesta Perpetua,” as the piece was called, ran from sunrise to sunset, and featured the ethereal sight of Escobar singing into large wooden megaphones — delivering notes that fluctuated between the operatic and bird-like. After 15 years, a forest, a pig and a giant tongue, Echo Park alternative arts space Machine Project is closing its doors 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z All Alone Onstage, Singing Songs of a Tumultuous Life Of all the various operatic forms, the hardest for a composer to pull off may be the monodrama. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z This battle is operatic, the soldiers moving in slow motion and framed by fog. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 10: On Your Way, Soldier 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z “I don’t know what the operatic equivalent of it taking two to tango is, but that’s sort of where we are,” Mr. Gelb said. Met Opera Prepares to Lock Out Workers 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z Cinema snacks: the latest projections All today's stories Great DVDs from the Guardian shop Aria An ambitious operatic portmanteau film, featuring ten classic arias imaginatively reinterpreted by ten very different directors. Clip joint: identical twins 2010-03-17T17:07:00Z Even at the height of her operatic career, her voice was a light lyric soprano, ideal for roles like Strauss’s Sophie and Mozart’s Susanna. Review: Kathleen Battle Returns to the Met After 22 Years. It Was Worth the Wait. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Her nasal, operatic warble is usually backed by a full orchestra and legions of costumed dancers. China in your hand: the lowdown on Chinese pop 2012-12-25T22:20:21Z The sounds were woven with electronics and homemade videos, but first, last and always, Mr. Keckler is an operatic singer whose range shatters the conventional boundaries of classical singing. Review: Joseph Keckler Shares Operatic Overtones and Tales at Pangea 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z By this logic, video transmissions could actually affect operatic acting positively. 2010-01-13T05:54:00Z As the mojitos and martinis flowed, and the laughter and dancing increased, the operatic karaoke night began to resemble ordinary ones. An Opera Star Walks Into a Karaoke Bar … 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z For a start, director Matthew Xia and Clark Rundell spent months auditioning the right voices for the show, coming up with a team of young actors and recording artists rather than operatic warblers. John Adams's earthquake musical gets a welcome shaking down 2010-07-07T16:29:00Z It’s safe to assume that they, some singers and the society’s musicians, led by the guest conductor Carlos Ágreda, will make operatic excerpts blend in easily with the series’s usual orchestral fun. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z If she missed a scintilla of gravitas in ’s “Dove Sono,” among the operatic repertory’s greatest treasures, she still provided richness and ample heart. Music Review: At Avery Fisher, Philharmonic?s Gently Scrambled Opera 2010-07-07T22:43:00Z The company, which unveiled its new lineup this week, will kick off its eighth season on Sept. 19 with a recital by operatic soprano Angela Gheorghiu. Broad Stage season to include '1984,' 'Carmen' from South Africa 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z He also fears we may now be addicted to operatic presidents. Mr. Apple Pie, Ron Howard 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z He moved tentatively into the punishingly difficult German repertoire but became known as one of the great Tristans of operatic history. Jon Vickers, acclaimed Canadian operatic tenor, dies at 88 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z It’s widely acknowledged to be the most operatic of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s works: richly scored and vocally demanding. Opinion | Opera and Broadway have a fruitful relationship. If only opera fans understood it. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z It was only when she was called back for voice-overs during the lengthy edit that she was shown the cosmos scenes set to the operatic soundtrack. Secret life 2011-07-10T09:52:34Z The racial barriers that had blocked Anderson’s operatic career were lifting by the time Norman began making her way. The Shimmering Magnificence of Jessye Norman 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z As Reno, Ms. Foster may not sound classically operatic, but she sure sounds grand and, when called for, loud. A Big Belter Who Found a True Voice 2011-05-13T23:00:44Z Fabri had also worked extensively for Handel in London, singing several operatic roles that placed a premium on agility, grace and flourish. The original three tenors 2010-10-21T21:25:00Z The story was a good one—virtuosic, operatic, hilarious—and included a shipment of beanbag chairs and the phrases “beautiful half-gainer” and “parakeet abattoir.” Jon Stewart, Employee of the Month 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z “A great operatic career lies in his sights,” Rupert Christiansen wrote in a five-star review of that performance in The Telegraph, “if he keeps his wits about him.” Vittorio Grigolo, Star Tenor, Fired for ‘Inappropriate’ Behavior 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z But best of all was the scintillating Adagio, an operatic scene without words. Music Review: For a Sextet?s Substitutes, a Chemistry Test 2011-05-10T21:30:25Z He gave Mozart’s Requiem operatic expression but again little comfort. Dudamel makes Mozart and Arvo Pärt a matter of life and death 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The opera, which dates from the 1680s, is an early landmark in English operatic writing. Renowned countertenor in 'Dido' at Town Hall 2012-02-08T20:42:05Z Half a dozen etchings all titled "RM" depict spooky, shadowy, operatic figures. At Davidson Galleries: Robert E. Marx's curious creatures 2012-09-27T00:00:08Z Concerts of operatic extracts labour under two constraints. Jonas Kaufmann – review 2013-04-22T17:07:59Z She displayed a lovely tone in the operatic melodies of No. 21. Music Review: Rachel Barton Pine Performs at Rockefeller University 2012-03-22T21:02:22Z This operatic Whitman taps into real questions about the poet. Review: Matthew Aucoin’s ‘Crossing’ Is a Taut, Inspired Opera 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z But no one suffered as grandly as Tilda Swinton in the operatic “I Am Love,” or as pathetically as Paprika Steen in the unsparing “Applause.” Film: The Cinematic State of Things 2010-12-16T19:28:34Z But, as Mr. Foccroulle said, “it would be a pity if she was just an operatic soprano.” ‘This Is Who We’ve Been Waiting For’: A Diva on the Precipice 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z An opera “El Niño” may not be, exactly, but it is more operatic in some ways than the remaining entry, Mr. Nyman’s “Facing Goya.” The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Here on the books desk there's high praise from some quarters for the operatic version of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale – but then when did Peggy ever put a foot wrong?. Ian McEwan to make Atonement opera 2010-03-19T11:18:00Z Her soprano has a bright, blooming sheen, and she modulates smoothly between full-throated, operatic singing and passages that are more spoken than sung. Theater Review: In ‘Arlington,’ an Army Wife Fights a Lonely Battle 2014-03-03T03:00:01Z For weeks, Twitter, TikTok and Instagram users have been sharing videos of partygoers dancing ecstatically as the twisted operatic notes soar through basement bars and packed clubs. The Hottest Song at the Club? ‘The White Lotus’ Dance Remix 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Moore conveyed Katya’s fear of her locked-up emotions with tremulous beauty, turning her final scene into an ecstatic vision of release that kept a refreshing distance from clichés of operatic madness. Review: A searing ‘Katya Kabanova’ on the Seattle Opera stage 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Even when bringing affecting restraint to songs like Strauss’s “Morgen” or Debussy’s “Il pleure dans mon coeur,” she kept the operatic fervor stirring just below the surface, ready to unleash in climactic phrases. Its Musicians Are Out of Work, but the Met Is Streaming 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z Shortly before, Alex Ross had written of the “Ring” in The New Yorker: “Pound for pound, ton for ton, it is the most witless and wasteful production in modern operatic history.” Critic?s Notebook: Peter Gelb on Wagner?s ?Ring? Cycle at Met Opera 2012-04-03T18:45:55Z Both the Bartok and the Orff come out feeling less operatic for it. Review: Two Operas Conjure Apocalypses Personal and Cosmic 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The full power of Ms. Benanti’s voice lent “The Sound of Music” an operatic heft. Review: Laura Benanti Shows Range With Songs and Stories 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Author of a monumental biography of Orson Welles, Callow now turns to an equally operatic subject: Richard Wagner, his life and times. New & Noteworthy 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Blanchard and Lemmons use an operatic trick to present this layering. Review: ‘Fire’ Brings a Black Composer to the Met, Finally 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z That, I think, is why — despite the book’s drastic, self-imposed limitations and reiterations — it sometimes creates the most remarkable, operatic sweeps of emotion in the reader.” A Selfless Man: David Peace Talks About Bill Shankly and 'Red or Dead' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z It is also a de facto memorial to an entire operatic ethos, exemplified by the lavish productions of Franco Zeffirelli, that’s now vanished about as completely as the guillotined aristocrats who give “Ghosts” its title. Review: ‘Ghosts’ of the Guillotine Reunite at Versailles 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z That said, as an operatic experience – Vaughan Williams called it a "morality" – it is fraught with difficulties. The Pilgrim's Progress; Total Immersion: Knussen at 60 – review 2012-11-11T00:05:45Z Opera across the street, the Verdi Requiem proved to be an ideal meeting point for his choral and operatic worlds. L.A. Master Chorale delivers a mighty, thrilling Verdi Requiem 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z McAllister still loves operatic singing, but musical theater parts have been coming at him since he first did “Ragtime” a decade ago at Toby’s Dinner Theater. Perspective | You love theater? So do these 12 D.C. stage dynamos. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z She has worked on audience development efforts and has encouraged the company to leaven its operatic offerings with classic musicals. The Diva Departs: Renée Fleming’s Farewell to Opera 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z It's not fair, as is sometimes said, to claim that operatic drama is always absurd. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z It was a leisurely and slovenly "Pag" that felt like a comfortable old operatic shoe that no longer has any support but is retained out of sentimentality. Dudamel coaxes a sense of urgency from two of opera's staples 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z “Prospero’s Rooms” contains some of the musical ideas Rouse sketched for an operatic adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death.” CD reviews: A modern symphonic master 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Her coolly smoldering performance of this most famous operatic femme fatale showed she was more than ready. Review: Two Pinch-Hitters, Reveling in ‘Carmen’ 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z These archetypes of conceptual painting, accompanied, too, by Kawara’s nearly unknown early prints of atomic bomb victims, have never appeared more operatic and ghoulish than they do here. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The charming first one abounds in Italianate operatic lyricism; the second is full of rousing chordal fanfares. Review: Nikolai Lugansky Plays Schubert and Tchaikovsky 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z In the 19th century, composers transcribed orchestral and operatic works to enable a wider audience to enjoy, in salon settings, the new scores being performed at concert halls and opera houses. Review: Parlor-Style Mozart From the Ariel Quartet 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Like Mr. Freeman, Mr. Braxton launched his operatic career by fielding his own orchestra — starting with money he won from a MacArthur “genius” grant in the 1990s. Operas by Black Composers Have Long Been Ignored. Explore 8. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Queen's 1975 song, Bohemian Rhapsody, which was written by Mercury, introduced beautiful melodies, operatic elements, and classical storylines into the rock song. Freddie Mercury 30 years on – remembering the theatrical, eccentric genius 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z His work will continue to serve us all as an object lesson in operatic design that reaches to the very heart of a subject. David Myerscough-Jones obituary 2010-05-04T18:01:00Z Big, operatic feelings — mostly having to do with loyalty, honor and professionalism — are both heightened and lightened by propulsive speed and overscaled action. ‘Ambulance’ Review: Michael Bay Is Our Emergency Movie Technician 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Five minutes' research will tell you the facts: 6% of the adult population has been to an operatic event of some sort. How I fell out of love with opera 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z The tale of Orpheus, whose song softens the hearts of the haughtiest deities, morphed into the spectacle of the famously demanding La Scala patrons, sitting in judgment on operatic superstars. Past and Present, the Orpheus Myth Makes Us Rethink Music 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker that "pound for pound, ton for ton, it is the most witless and wasteful production in modern operatic history." Lepage `Ring' cycle released on DVD next month 2012-08-06T16:59:08Z Of the soloists, Swanson was the only one who attempted to get into character for the operatic first half. Review | Choral Arts hits the mark with a serious Rossini 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z Although she gave her all to “If He Walked Into My Life,” she failed to invest much depth in this most operatic of Herman ballads. Music Review: ‘The Prince and the Show Boy’ at 54 Below 2012-08-22T22:21:39Z The comedy is more wry than uproarious, the melodrama gently poignant rather than operatic, and the sentimentality just sweet enough to be satisfying rather than bothersome. Movie Review: ‘The Lunchbox,’ With Irrfan Khan: Mumbai Mix-Up 2014-02-27T16:27:45Z He said that he was drawn to the lyricism, grace and power in the music, responding particularly to its operatic and romantic aspects. Death Becomes a Soaring Tenor 2011-07-17T01:00:47Z The less said about the characters played by Jacob Orr and Dane Suarez, an operatic tenor, the better, though they are played finely. ‘Montag’ Review: A Dark Hymn to Female Friendship 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z She graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University and received a master’s degree in operatic vocal performance from the Manhattan School of Music. Bria Langer, Timothy Riley 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z The orchestra, under Music Director Christopher Zimmerman’s baton, achieved a synchronous and responsive partnership with Schimpf, blending so effortlessly that the concerto took on the operatic quality of an aria. Fairfax Symphony Orchestra gives grand season opener Beneath the show’s heavy coats of operatic varnish and prestige-TV enamel, it demonstrates a humble tenderness. “My Brilliant Friend,” Reviewed: A Prada Ad for Working-Class Gloom, but with Shades of Humble Tenderness 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The full operatic version was shaping up to be just as cynical. A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z And so throughout her career she would be found joking and laughing uproariously in her dressing-room only minutes after giving an overwhelming performance of some tragic operatic heroine. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z A few minutes into Tennessee Williams’s “Orpheus Descending,” we know that emotions will run operatically high. Review: A Lack of Passion Keeps This ‘Orpheus Descending’ Earthbound 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z The music acts as emotional connective tissue, imbuing the images as they pass with an episodic, operatic quality. Bleak Reality in Nan Goldin’s ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’ 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Still, I find the operatic Rocco and His Brothers his most bluntly moving work. Europe in 25 films: the critics’ choice 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z “I definitely felt more confident in my operatic writing abilities,” Mazzoli says, “but at the same time, I was very conscious of the desire not to repeat myself.” Perspective | Steeped in Guns N’ Roses and Philip Glass, Missy Mazzoli is a leading composer of her generation 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s a very interesting work, capturing epic and operatic qualities. Awadagin Pratt to join NW Sinfonietta for ‘Embargo’ premiere 2013-04-18T21:52:57Z The Gordon account of the Homestead as a hornet’s nest of jealousies and resentments is accurate as to facts but operatic in its effects. My Hero, Emily Dickinson, Outlaw of Amherst 2010-05-13T14:38:00Z Just a few years earlier, new art in New York still meant Abstract Expressionism: brushy, drippy, spattery painting, epic in scale, operatic in pitch. When ‘New Art’ Made New York the Culture Capital 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Divas have a reputation for being quite complicated, and we can't really afford that in our operatic world. Nina Stemme: 'I am always questioning myself – could it be better?' 2013-05-02T12:51:45Z She was a blond goddess with an operatic voice … singing those roles eight times a week. Neil Diamond Unites Washington at the Kennedy Center Honors 2011-12-05T16:21:00Z They showed Kaufmann’s meltingly suave side along with a touch of his stentorian operatic capability, which the audience devoured. Schubert's lonely hearts club band and a heart throb tenor 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z There was something of an operatic aria structure to it, a few words sustained across a whole lot of notes. The heart of Schwartzness: The roots of the "Vanderpump Rules" Scandoval implosion run deep 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z One of Lambert’s operatic overtures, he told me, reminds him of “a cross between Scott Joplin and Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ overture,” while later compositions sound more like the expressionistic language of Paul Hindemith. A Small Step Toward Correcting the Overwhelming Whiteness of Opera 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z The violence, when it comes is operatic and rarely telegraphed. Gangster dramas: the cliches fly like a hail of bullets 2011-04-07T13:11:36Z Then the road suddenly ended at a sea in the desert — Flaming Gorge Reservoir — where buttes floated like steamships, and those operatic clouds pushed offstage toward Wyoming. Personal Journeys: A Case for Getting Far, Far Away 2013-05-16T17:46:20Z They will be accompanied by the pianist Warren Jones in songs and operatic selections by Strauss, Wagner, Verdi, Mussorgsky and a premiere of a song by Brian Lowdermilk set to words by James Joyce. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:20:26Z “Hopkins,” an operatic parallel to Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis,” depicted the technological wonders of the factory, equating its switchboards with temple altars. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z The operatic pastiche may be new territory to most modern audiences, but it has a rich heritage. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z Robert Ashley, the brilliant, innovative American composer who died in March last year at 83, created a distinctive operatic aesthetic, a surrealist, meditative style instantly recognizable as his own. Review: Robert Ashley’s ‘Crash’ Opens at Roulette 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The setting and production remove all the fabric from the operatic safety net, with the orchestra as the first and most important property to go. Suzan Hanson brings immediacy, authenticity to Long Beach Opera's 'La Voix Humaine' 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z This was, in fact, her first performance on any operatic stage, as the Times’ review noted with wonder. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Kátya: I am so tormented, I can feel a great operatic mad scene coming on. Digested opera: K?tya Kabanov? by Leo? Jan??ek | John Crace 2010-03-17T12:31:00Z After seven years in London she moved to Italy to continue her operatic training. From Soweto song to Porgy and Bess 2012-07-16T10:23:45Z When he was in "Grease," Porter managed to get to the adjacent theater to see "Angels in America," Tony Kushner's riotous, almost operatic masterpiece. 'It's his time' _ 'Kinky Boots' star Billy Porter 2013-06-05T12:30:10Z The extremes and the exaggerations, the absurdities and the operatic stylizations of Jacquot’s melodramatic vision melt into their personae. Two French Melodramas: “3 Hearts” and “Villa Amalia” 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z But she doesn’t offer a reading experience that conveys its operatic power. Review: In ‘The Confidence Game’ by Maria Konnikova, the Siren Call of the Swindler 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z In the story of Isabelle Eberhardt, a 19th-century Swiss adventuress who blazed a headstrong trail before perishing prematurely in Algeria at 27, there surely is a saga worthy of operatic treatment. Music Review: ?Song From the Uproar? at the Kitchen 2012-02-26T22:15:35Z Benoit Jacquot, director of the indelible character studies "A Single Girl" and "Farewell, My Queen," goes for the operatic in his latest feature, taking synchronicities and missed connections to the straining point and beyond. '3 Hearts' swoons over a very French love triangle 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The long second part of the symphony turns, almost operatically, to the final part of Goethe’s “Faust,” an increasingly ecstatic heavenly ascent. Why America got it wrong on Riccardo Chailly and how the Italian conductor is proving it 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Mozart evoked his operatic style in his “Prague” Symphony. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia 2012-03-04T23:15:57Z There was a lot of trial and error — figuring out how the operatic voice can serve these styles we know and love. In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’ 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z An operatic story of obsession and necrophiliac consummation needs an appropriate soundtrack: Buñuel therefore selected extracts from Wagner's feverish Tristan und Isolde. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z An ambitious young composer who holds law and music degrees, he wrote a funny, sentimental rhymed libretto with hundreds of footnotes citing legal and operatic precedents and showed it to Scalia and Ginsburg. With Derrick Wang's 'Scalia/Ginsburg,' a unanimous opinion 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Or take a group of Russian merchants — the ones that gave Maddox a building loan — portrayed here as operatic “barrel-bellied, bearded boyars.” Review: ‘Bolshoi Confidential’ Peers Down the Centuries and Past the Pirouettes 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Both will be done with sets and costumes, for the full operatic effect. Spare Times: For Children, for March 30-April 5 2012-03-29T21:30:27Z The earliest winners were fortunate to be taught by London, who devoted all his energies to operatic administration and artist development after a paralyzed vocal cord ended his career in 1968. Music: George London Foundation Contest Set for Morgan Library 2012-02-12T15:44:19Z In Thursday's semi-final, singer Jacques Houdek, known as 'Mr Voice' in Croatia, won a place in the last round by melding pop and operatic singing styles in the song "My Friend". Croatia's 'Mr Voice' and Hungarian gypsy singer among Eurovision finalists 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z An operatic soprano warbles within “Rubber Ball,” a waltz of self-doubt. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2011-01-10T22:51:16Z But there’s a long, still-misunderstood heritage of piano arrangements of orchestral and operatic works, pioneered by Liszt and championed a century later by Vladimir Horowitz. Extraordinary Beethoven, and an Adventurous Streak 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Hanks’ tone is both operatic and judicious; he makes passionate sentiment seem the highest form of common sense. Read TIME's First Review of "Forrest Gump" on the Film's 20th Anniversary 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Hakka Chinese folk songs, operatic arias, a Mahler symphony and the recorded sounds of natural thunder provide the soundtrack. Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre heads to L.A. with force of nature 'Rice' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z These are the very operatic experiences that I encourage others to partake in. Opera Lover Apologizes for Scattering Ashes and Silencing the Met 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The operatic repertory we are most familiar with is about release, and more release: explosions of emotion. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z Some works appear on the recordings as excerpts — such as “The Games” and the large-scale “Vessel” — and others, thankfully, are nearly intact, particularly her operatic masterpiece, “Atlas,” from 1991. At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Its score combines Cuban rhythms and lyric, operatic passages with modern edges. ‘Cubanacán’ Imagines When Che and Fidel Compared Golf Swings 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Of his 20 operatic works, 12 are of the pocket variety, scored for a small cast and a small instrumental ensemble. Music Review: ?Benjamin Button,? the Opera, at Symphony Space 2010-06-16T21:11:00Z What’s astonishing is how naturally and fluidly all this material allows itself to be depicted operatically. ‘Appomattox’: A superb night at the opera 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The lore of jazz is filled with operatic episodes, none larger or more dramatic than the last days of Charlie Parker. | 'Cool Blues': A Jazzman Encounters His Life and Death 2011-03-30T22:00:46Z There is another L.A. connection to this operatic oratorio, which relates the events between Good Friday and Easter from the perspective of Mary Magdalene and Mary Cleophas. Bach Collegium San Diego gives Handel's 'La Resurrezione' life 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Despite its admirable elements, there is not much thrill in this operatic thriller. Review: ‘The Manchurian Candidate,’ Eagerly Awaited, Has Premiere in St. Paul 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Even Oscar-winning auteurs have been awed by George Miller’s operatically staged spectacle. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z And Tom Ford and Elon Musk were two of the most fun, because I enjoy writing about operatic characters with out-of-this-world proclivities. Dara Khosrowshahi, Dad of Silicon Valley 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z All had compelling voices, but the rating of operatic promise is complicated and, like judging in any art, less than objective. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z She can sing with airy ease, in lofty choruses, with confrontational tension or with operatic hysteria. New Music: Beck’s New Album Is ‘Morning Phase’ 2014-02-24T22:48:45Z There are no hissable villains here, no operatic speeches condemning or celebrating greed. | 'Margin Call': ?Margin Call,? With Zachary Quinto - Review 2011-10-20T16:15:02Z It was a decade of sprawling music-theatre spectacles, operatic or otherwise. Notable Performances of 2019 and of the Decade 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z For encores, Oropesa unleashed her true operatic chops gloriously on a Meyerbeer aria, then finished with a reprise of the Poulenc patter song. Soprano delivers a seemingly effortless performance at UDC theater 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z What was left was an operatic RedZone: the highest stakes, the highest notes — we’re talking up to E flat or F over C — over and over, in dizzying profusion. Review: Two Tenors. Many, Many High Notes. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Here, you get a melting top note; here, operatic fire; here, wide-eyed coquettishness; and at the end of most big numbers, a big note and an upraised arm. Ailyn Pérez makes the most of an unexpected solo recital at WNO Those Liszt pieces were divided into two sets: first, three delicate studies and then two of his deliriously virtuosic arrangements of operatic themes. Review: Marc-André Hamelin Connects Past and Present in Kaye Playhouse Recital 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z It may be understandable to cling to the operatic experiences of one’s youth, and to seek in the opera house not a reflection of, but an antidote to, the complexities of the outside world. Critic’s Notebook: Opera’s Sad Goodbye? How About, ‘Good Riddance’? 2013-12-30T22:21:55Z There is a part of me that likes to go in from time to time for those big operatic effects. The Visionaries: How Quentin Tarantino Concocted a Genre of His Own 2012-12-19T13:00:00Z I use humor in the play to deflect and deepen the tragedy — it could be that doesn’t play the same in an operatic piece. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z This operatic yarn is less argumentative than most of Mr. Carlin’s bits, more open to interpretation. A George Carlin Special Too Raw After Sept. 11 Resurfaces Now 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z And in these styles, you have to keep space for the operatic voice to feel natural. In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’ 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z In Vogel’s telling, the puritanical opposition to the play sours a passionate adherent — its stage manager, Lemml, played with apt operatic vivacity by Ben Cherry — on a nation purported to embrace newcomers with new ideas. Review | How ‘Indecent,’ about art happening against all odds, speaks to our time 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Which is all right, I suppose: a film about opera need not be operatic. Movie Review: ‘Quartet,’ Directed by Dustin Hoffman 2013-01-10T22:49:24Z “These are the very operatic experiences that I encourage others to partake in,” he wrote. Opera Lover Apologizes for Scattering Ashes and Silencing the Met 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Indeed, while he has dipped his toe into the operatic repertory in Los Angeles, at the Metropolitan Opera and elsewhere, he has been largely known as a symphonic conductor. Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Conductor, Will Lead Paris Opera 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Some of the vocal soloists offered a more operatic approach, like the soprano Annette Dasch, who made her Philharmonic debut on Tuesday. | New York Philharmonic: A Period-Style Taste of a Holiday-Season Staple 2009-12-17T06:08:00Z Then there are the less-than-conventional operatic dangers of freak tides, towering waves, and the set sinking into the spongy shingle, perched just a few feet away from the water. Peter Grimes on the Beach? Shiver me tenors! 2013-06-12T18:00:01Z In one of the Berlin performance’s extended cadenzas, laden with scat, she quotes highlights from her past as if this were an operatic mad scene. Rendering ‘On the Road’ as Dance? That and Other Audacities 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z If her songs are notable at first for their sophisticated, atmospheric playing, she matches that with operatic, distinctively guttural vocals that sit at odds with her petite frame. Anna Calvi's orchestral manoeuvres 2011-01-13T22:19:01Z Such are the sacrifices of an operatic career. Top Notes That Shatter The Glass Ceiling 2011-03-11T15:32:57Z The songs by Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky that Ms. Netrebko sang were drawn from the genre of emotional, intense Russian romances, music that invites rich, passionate operatic singing. Anna Netrebko Summons the Intensity of Russian Romances 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z The only mold “Ghosts” fit was grandly and unapologetically operatic. Critic's Pick: 'Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The tunes moved between near-silence and operatic projection, between desolation and rage, between meditation and rhythmic drive, and between humility and hard-won pride. Benjamin Clementine Performs at Rough Trade 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But before we see the unfortunate inmates fashioned into an orange necklace, we must endure more than an hour of Boss’s operatically disgusting exertions. Review: In ‘Human Centipede 3’ There’s No Humanity Left 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z It is one of those operatic moments where a little due diligence would make all the difference. Music: 'Les Hugenots,' Making Operatic History Again 2011-06-21T11:21:41Z Typical of her approach was her quiet, serene rendition of “All the Things You Are,” which ended with sudden operatic flourishes. Review: Jessye Norman’s Salute to the Love Song at Carnegie Hall 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Another operatic duet for lovers aware that they will soon perish occurs in Verdi’s “Aida,” when the Ethiopian princess Aida elects to share the fate of her lover, the condemned Egyptian warrior Radames. Review: 'Elegy for Young Lovers' Gets Strong Staging at English National Opera 2010-05-04T11:30:00Z The reference points were well known: Gluck’s operatic telling of the Orpheus myth had recently been revived in Paris by the mezzo-soprano Pauline Viardot. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Violist Diana Wade brought both athletic and operatic ferocity to Sequenza VI, throwing herself into tremolo passages with a physical force that shook her and a sonic one that practically shook the walls. The L.A. music scene as seen through Berio's Sequenzas 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z “Who are these characters who think their normal language is operatic singing? What falls apart for them when they start to question that?” An Eagerly Awaited Opera, Delayed by the Pandemic, Opens at Last 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Weill and Anderson chose the book as the subject of their operatic Broadway play specifically because its African story line so directly addressed the realities of a still-segregated America. A race-themed work not performed in L.A. for 67 years is back for a Black Lives Matter era 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Ruders’s occasional adaptations of traditional operatic forms don’t always work: a quartet intoned by the members of the commander’s troubled household hardly makes an impression. Revisiting “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the Opera 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The Industry focuses on new operatic works, but outside the company, Sharon has a career directing grand opera and other stage works. Yuval Sharon residency to fortify L.A. Philharmonic's opera profile 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Shchedrin’s “Romantic Offering” Double Concerto for Piano, Cello and Orchestra is itself highly operatic. Music: The Making of a Maestro Moment 2011-02-16T12:30:06Z “Sweeney Todd” is often considered his most operatic work. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z Along with the new audio recording made by this same cast, Butcher’s lead performance can serve as an ideal introduction to Ashley’s vast operatic universe. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z This one, however, seems unable to decide whether to be an operatic parody or a 1970s juke-box musical, and rather confusingly settles for both. Soul Man – review 2012-08-29T11:34:16Z “My wife and I are constantly reading, constantly looking for operatic potential,” he said in a melodic German inflected with the cadences of his native Hungarian. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z There's no operatic acting-by-numbers; instead a complex, troubled character is revealed expertly by vocal and physical means. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: a guide in clips 2012-05-18T16:16:00Z Dispensing with the typical operatic kings and gods, they featured recognizably ordinary characters experiencing way-larger-than-life emotions. Music Review: Melodramatic Sounds of Young Love 2011-05-25T22:22:09Z The operatic texts that Martin Crimp creates for me cost him time and effort, and it became clear that I wouldn’t be able to start work on our new collaboration until early 2015. Of Countertenors, Medieval Poetry and Capturing a Silvery Tone 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Gentle humour accompanies Mr Pinker’s good sense throughout the book, an antidote to bestselling, operatically irate usage guides that disparage those who disagree as idiots or barbarians. Talking sense 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z For the first two seasons and the beginning of the third, the results were mixed—nuanced moments amid a script that added operatic personal drama to an already outrageous, overstuffed scenario. In Season 3, “GLOW” Raises the Stakes 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z The drive, Sunday, as the sun was setting, was operatic. Pacific Opera Project's Forest Lawn 'Falstaff' has an offbeat charm 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Ushering new work into the world is perhaps an operatic institution’s most difficult task. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Vivien Schweitzer Fans of Handel’s sublime operatic music — with its achingly beautiful arias and anguished outbursts — are in for a treat on Sunday at Carnegie Hall. The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z MacBeth's language is beautifully melodic: the stanzas unfold like operatic arias, becoming more florid and complex in thought as the poem develops. Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth 2010-06-07T14:18:00Z Sondheim didn’t set out to make “Sweeney Todd” operatic. When musicals become operas 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z That a city with a population of 3.4 million, less than half the size of London, can support such operatic bounty never ceases to amaze. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z Maybe the corrective to the Trump drama wasn’t a copycat show built around another operatic camera hog. President Trump’s Show Has Been Canceled 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The extraordinary, operatic fantasy horror about a young American dancer discovering awful secrets at a German ballet school freaks out its audience with crazed intensity and eyeball-frazzling blocks of fierce colour. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Now the pair are at it again, telling the Times this morning that an operatic adaptation of Atonement is in the works. Ian McEwan to make Atonement opera 2010-03-19T11:18:00Z Again, it’s a powerful piece but operatic in the loosest sense. Review: Librettos and Ariosos Meet Video at Anthology Film Archives 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The crazy fusion of contemporary music, operatic hyper-drama and kinetic editing that pegged the movie as the work of a mad auteur would probably have seemed like chaos onstage. Review | Will you love ‘Moulin Rouge!’ as a stage musical? Well, you’ll certainly fall in like. 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Zambello lost no time in proposing an operatic setting of “Heart of a Soldier” to Mr. Gockley, then the longtime general director of the Houston Grand Opera, where he spearheaded 35 premieres. ?Heart of a Soldier,? Opera About Rick Rescorla, 9/11 Hero 2011-09-04T03:00:09Z The men are left to battle it out — for her, presumably — to ominous, operatic Vivaldi. Pilobolus Packs a Lot Into 2 Hours at the Joyce Theater 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Like the play - and the movie adaptation that starred Meryl Streep - the operatic "Doubt" takes its time gathering steam. New opera's success is beyond `Doubt' 2013-01-27T21:59:08Z Coupled with the operatic aria of “La Donna e Mobile” on the soundtrack, it suggested that the duo had moved back into their preferred world of baroque gilding and black lace. Fashion Review: Raf Simons at Jil Sander and Tomas Maier Redefine Sensual 2012-02-26T18:29:25Z Descending a staircase in a bloodstained nightgown in Lucia's mad scene, Sutherland was hailed as a star for a performance dubbed by one critic as one of the greatest sensations in operatic history. Opera great Joan Sutherland dies aged 83 2010-10-11T17:15:00Z His heightened realism propels actors into symbolic settings with totemic objects, recurring obsessions, and operatic violence. Like Sundance in Brooklyn, Except Better 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Haimovitz requested overtures in classically operatic fashion, and each of six composers took the commission in a different direction. Matt Haimovitz and Bach, Colonizing Columbia’s Campus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z After a moment, I identified it as an element coming from Annie Gosfield’s laptop — and the piercing coloratura motif as a sample from her own recent operatic adaptation of “The War of the Worlds.” Review: A Tour Through the Hyperactive World of John Zorn 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Lucy’s brother was given a cochlear implant, but his disabilities frustrated and inflamed him; his tantrums were operatic and destructive. Growing Up in the Margins Without Being Marginalized 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Now he has created an operatic version of Philip Pullman's novel, which climaxes in an explosive competition to determine who is the finest firework-maker in the land. The Firework-Maker's Daughter – review 2013-03-24T18:11:00Z The writing itself is wonderfully operatic; you could almost imagine the script as a libretto. Review: Royalty as Horror Show in ‘Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!’ 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z True to the maximalist tendencies of “Thrones” storytelling, the strategy seems to be that if you’re going to make a soap, you might as well make it as operatic as possible. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: The Full Targaryen 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z This, Mr. Pountney said, is “the only intelligent approach to telling an operatic story where race is part of the narrative.” Peter Maxwell Davies?s New Opera, ?Kommilitonen!? 2011-11-12T22:15:07Z In antebellum America, operatic and concert songs were very popular forms of entertainment. The story of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, America’s first black pop star 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z She was even better, 10 years later, in Season 3 of “The Sopranos,” a show that, like “Jungle Fever,” swooped in and out of the operatic. Who We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Weinstein 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z His career coincided with the creation of a proper British operatic tradition by Benjamin Britten, virtually single-handed and against all the odds. The Earl of Harewood 2011-07-11T18:26:50Z Ms. Netrebko is an operatic superstar, the most sought-after soprano today. Review: Anna Netrebko Sang a Recital. Of Course She Brought Props. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z “Nixon” took hold, too — much to the composer’s surprise, establishing itself in the general operatic repertoire. L.A. Phil delivers a dazzling reimagining of 'Nixon in China' 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z He learned much about orchestral and operatic composition from working on “Prima Donna,” which has a two-act structure and a small cast. Rufus Wainwright’s First Opera Was ‘a Nightmare.’ He’s Trying Again. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Things go operatically wrong, and throughout Bong uses grim slapstick to show how people are driven to mad lengths by money. The Best Jokes of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Opera Holland Park's season opens with a new production of the most familiar of operatic double bills. Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci – review 2013-06-05T17:42:56Z He’s accompanied by his wife, Monique Ortiz-Arndt, in a peasant dress operatically singing the part of Humpty Dumpty atop a ladder. How to Decolonize a Museum? Try an Ax. 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z You wonder if even James Bond, another part the 35-year-old star has been linked to, would ever offer up quite the same opportunity for operatic bombast as playing Thor’s evil stepbrother. Why Tom Hiddleston's Loki could be Marvel's next great supervillain movie 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The recording begins with a dutiful polish, but soon Cheng breaks free of the cool economy of the Beatles’ original, and begins singing with a kind of operatic gusto. Stephen Cheng Recorded a Cult Classic in Jamaica. Then What Happened? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z It’s also a love letter to department stores of yore, and to the operatic flow of trade. A Love Letter to Old-Fashioned Department Stores 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Bocelli’s concerts often follow a similar format, with half the program dedicated to operatic excerpts and the other half to lighter fare. Music Review: Andrea Bocelli at Barclays Center 2013-12-12T23:13:30Z It is frequently worn by large women who embody another operatic stereotype. Put a lid on the operatic Viking helmet cliché 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z It is the latest in a series of operatic rediscoveries at the Deutsche Oper, which, in recent decades, has made a point of highlighting works from outside the canon. Reawakening the Antichrist (and Other Lost Opera Gems) 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z But at this age, his first “erotic dream” becomes ludicrous, especially when it is represented by commonplace prim operatic ballet. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z And a high school dropout remembered best for her bra size and her slurred, cringe-inducing final appearances may not everybody's first ideal of a classic operatic figure. Anna Nicole Smith returns from the dead 2011-02-18T16:19:00Z Handel’s operatic genius comes through most powerfully in his arias for lower voices. A Critic Gives Prizes for 5 ‘Messiah’ Concerts in New York 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Dame Joan Sutherland, one of the greatest operatic sopranos of our time, died peacefully last night at her home in Switzerland after a long illness, according to a statement issued by her family. Obituary: Soprano Joan Sutherland was opera legend 2010-10-12T03:18:00Z That period-piece gang-war epic was television at its most cinematic, a blend of operatically high dramatic stakes and equally operatic visual and sonic spectacle. ‘Legion’ Season 1, Episode 4: Mind Games 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z “And then we run into ‘You’re not glamorous enough,’ and I got heavy,” Ms. Millo said, fearing there was no place for her in an operatic culture increasingly focused on HD cinema broadcasts. Can the Diva Who Once Ruled the Met Make a Comeback? 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Although his score often instructs singers to “sound as beautiful as possible,” his writing calls for the directness of pop rather than an operatic color. Review: ‘Stranger Love’ Reflects the L.A. Philharmonic at Its Finest 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The exhibition, for example, includes a fine example of Christian Lacroix’s operatic flourishes. Review | When black models walking the runway was about more than just the clothes 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z It takes something operatic to hold its own and still have dramatic effect through such a distracting staging. When musicals become operas 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Catán was best known in the United States for his operatic adaptation of the Italian film "Il Postino," which is sung in Spanish. Mexican opera composer Daniel Cat?n dies in Texas 2011-04-12T17:01:06Z Sierra Boggess was endearing as Sarah Brown, a sergeant in the Save-a-Soul Mission, singing with gleaming, operatic confidence when we first meet her, but revealing inner yearnings as she finds herself inexplicably falling for Sky. Theater Review: ‘Guys and Dolls’ Is Performed as a Benefit for Carnegie Hall 2014-04-04T22:08:20Z Yes, Mozart was among the most performed composers at the Proms in their first half-century – but he achieved that prominence through the inclusion of countless operatic arias and concertos, rather than his symphonies. The Proms are richer than ever – even without Mozart's symphonies 2012-07-26T17:30:01Z The operatic drama and larger-than-life passions usually subside at the Metropolitan Opera when its season ends for the summer, but not this year. Not Over Till Overtime’s Due? Met Labor Strife Bares Secrets 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z A surreal Arctic thriller, a classic Los Angeles hard-boiled procedural and an operatic Mafia melodrama: Choose one or try all three. ‘Fortitude,’ ‘Bosch,’ ‘Gomorrah’: TV Crime Never Sleeps 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Ms. Clark is an interpretive wonder who can go from operatic to tart in the same phrase if necessary. Music Review: The Cheeriness of Those Gershwin Boys 2011-01-27T22:43:45Z It seems like a typical Bregenz twofer, with your operatic superego sure to be charmed by the intellectual pleasures in the Festspielhaus, and the id sated on the lake. Review: ‘Turandot’ and ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann,’ Spectacle and Substance at Bregenz Festival 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Her fetching good looks and vivid acting make her a natural for the HD era, yet relatively few of her 79 operatic roles are captured on DVD or audio recordings. Elizabeth Futral at Lincoln Center Festival and Glimmerglass 2012-07-18T21:49:41Z His voice was captured on numerous recordings, including one of every major Verdi operatic aria, which was made in 1976. Operatic tenor Bergonzi dies aged 90 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Thomas defended his choice of subject, noting that "no one goes to the opera to judge Carmen or Salome" - operatic heroines who could be pigeonholed as a two-timing Gypsy and a homicidal temptress. Anna Nicole Smith subject of provocative new opera 2011-02-16T17:19:10Z Their depths are expressed through Gershwin’s omnivorous, dazzling music rather than solely through the text, and the challenge for performers is a typically operatic one: endowing archetypes with life and individuality. Music Review: ?Porgy and Bess? at Tanglewood Festival - Review 2011-08-28T21:33:46Z Salomon’s work would seem, then, to lend itself to operatic adaptation. Salzburg Festival’s ‘Charlotte Salomon’ Falls Short on Drama 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z He saw the potential of the dubious pairing of the Spanish operatic tenor Domingo and the shaggy-haired Denver, pursuing Domingo for years before he agreed to join the project. Milt Okun, music impresario who spanned pop, folk and opera, dies at 92 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z But what makes “Fellow Travelers” such a satisfying operatic experience is the old-fashioned combination of a swift-flowing and deft libretto and gorgeous music. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z “They didn’t even really treat it as a ship,” dePoo says of the vessel sung about almost operatically in the musical as a “floating city.” A ‘Titanic’ challenge: Creating the ‘floating city’ within relatively limited space 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z In the summer movie lexicon, you're going for the bigger gestures, the more operatic, the more acrobatic. Aliens, rapture, giant robots: Hollywood takes on the apocalypse 2013-04-19T15:27:01Z The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Johann Strauss Jr.’s tuneful farce “Die Fledermaus,” which rang in the new year on Tuesday evening, is operatic André: bubbly, sweet and syrupy. Opera Review: Die Fledermaus at the Met, via Douglas Carter Beane 2014-01-01T16:04:50Z The combination of dark humor and operatic violence may call to mind “Fargo”; the slightly hyperbolic characterizations and stylized dialogue are akin to those in “Luke Cage.” Review: The Criminal Life in Mumbai in ‘Sacred Games’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z To Shostakovich, this brief exchange screamed out for operatic dramatization. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z Bruno called it “a paso doble painted on a grand operatic scale … you two were the embodiment of the flames of passion.” 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Halloween night tricks and treats 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z I can’t say I like the current Broadway production; to my mind, “Porgy and Bess” loses much of its emotional power when it is turned into a musical and stripped of its operatic qualities. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z Conforming to the composer-virtuoso model of the day, Farrenc’s early piano pieces were rondos or sets of variations on popular and operatic tunes, but they were far from the ostentatious, flimsy norm. Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z By choice and temperament, he brought sweeping conceptual themes to the programming of operatic, concert and theatrical fare. Salzburg Festival Journal: Paging Peter Gelb 2010-08-02T18:54:00Z Vertigo has a plot of almost operatic passion and improbability: the James Stewart character creates his perfect woman to replace someone he thinks he has lost. Herrmann: Scoring the best 2012-08-04T00:16:46Z Disney gets from Glass a wonderfully over-the-top new operatic version of “Happy Birthday.” An opera about Walt Disney, in commuting distance of Disneyland 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The danger for Mr. Stanhope has always been that his operatic scorn might become a kind of shtick. Critic’s Notebook: Doug Stanhope’s ‘Beer Hall Putsch,’ a Stand-Up Album 2013-09-06T22:34:31Z Mark Campbell wants people to issue warnings when they leave his operatic adaptation of "The Shining." An adaptation of Stephen King's "The Shining" by composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell opens Saturday at the Minnesota Opera 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z But the score has a definite operatic pedigree, if a distinctly retro one. Spring Performance: Music : Donizetti and Schwartz Fill Out Opera Program 2011-02-20T02:00:56Z It is heady stuff for a 14-year-old, even Mozart, who focused the intense plot through the distilling process of the dominant operatic form of his time: opera seria, an imposing, rule-driven series of arias. Music Review: From Milan to New York in 240 Years 2011-05-20T03:04:12Z The works that consistently pulled me in were those whose scores pulsed with music that had some profile, complexity and daring, whatever the approach to operatic storytelling. In a Laboratory, Turning Traditional Notions of Opera Upside Down 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z Everything leads up to a wild, near-risible climax of a melodramatic, soap operatic sort, something predicated, if not dictated, by the hard-driving, hysterical tone. Ill Manors – review 2012-06-09T23:08:05Z It seemed almost paradoxical, then, that a guest appearance by Josh Groban, a young pop crooner of operatic fervidity, brought out some of Ms. Fleming’s most sympathetic singing in a brief medley from “Brigadoon.” Music Review: Ren?e Fleming With Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2012-04-08T21:51:26Z Road signs for a long operatic march on new highways have gone up. San Diego Opera seizes the hour with prophetic 'Nixon in China' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z This great Finnish composer is the focal point of this year’s SummerScape extravaganza now under way at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., and an important operatic novelty is invariably a highlight of the festival. Strauss Joins Sibelius?s Vacation 2011-07-22T15:31:19Z While it raided the histories of both Italian and American film and gangster mythology for its look and style, it felt distinctly European, with an operatic realism unlike anything on American TV. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Now Mr. Volle, whose operatic career has followed an old-fashioned arc in many respects, is preparing to follow in their footsteps as a 21st-century Wotan, with the challenges that entails. Michael Volle’s Opera Profile Is Rising 2014-03-26T14:04:25Z More pertinently, this is, quite simply, one of the great operatic performances. La Cenerentola – review 2012-05-24T10:19:28Z “H.A.M.” has an operatic finale, and “Monster” rhymes “esophagus’ with “sarcophagus.” Kanye West is a magnificent blowfish 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z ALM: I take your point, but this was exactly one of the things I liked about this production: It was more conventionally “operatic” than other “Lucretias” I’ve seen in the past. A powerful opera about a horrible subject 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Take All of the Lights, which backs up operatic levels of sound with great drama. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) ? review 2010-11-19T12:35:00Z The Chicago native began his operatic career as a child singer in the 1950s. Head of Lyric Opera of Chicago to retire in 2012 2010-07-07T18:17:00Z The heroines of both works rebel against the confines of their bleak lives, but in typical operatic fashion, one ends up dead, the other heartbroken. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Kiss’ at the Opera Theater of St. Louis 2013-06-23T20:56:36Z It was a mellow kickoff for an athlete known for careening between exuberant and operatic. Odell Beckham Jr. on a Nike-Powered Swing Through SoHo 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z “Baby Driver,” Edgar Wright’s rollicking, operatic sports car of a flick, is a vehicle that is being touted as proof that such a lane is viable. “Baby Driver” is great, but it won’t change the studio franchise system 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The company, in other words, was a one-stop operatic shop, crucial from beginning to end of the process of composition and production. The Secret of Verdi’s ‘Otello’ and ‘Falstaff’? His Publisher 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The score and backdrop amounted to a curtain rising on the second act of Ms. Hadid’s career, as operatic as any since Frank Lloyd Wright’s. Building Zaha Hadid’s Bold Afterlife 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z And he continues to take risks in his career — from forays into folk and pop songs to singing operatic rarities like Massenet’s “Le Cid” and Chausson’s “Le Roi Arthus.” Better Call Roberto: Alagna Steps In to ‘Manon Lescaut’ 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z She continued her operatic training after graduation, and sang leading roles in a number of operas and also in West Side Story in Cape Town. From Soweto song to Porgy and Bess 2012-07-16T10:23:45Z And while his passionate words in defense of the operatic form are convincing, the trajectory of his own career is perhaps his best argument. Opera is here to stay, says 'Dead Man Walking' composer Jake Heggie 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z From there, Mr. Domingo deftly navigated new roles across diverse operatic styles, from Wagnerian weight to bel canto lightness. Plácido Domingo, Opera Superstar, Achieves the Unthinkable: 150 Roles 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z I can't quite believe it, but far from an eccentric whim, the Longborough Ring cycle is shaping up to be an essential operatic event. Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010-07-22T22:06:00Z And this in turn brings us to another aspect of operatic comedy: its tendency towards musical conservatism. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z In recent years, Mr. Lee sang a heavy-metal version of “My Way” and other songs with an Italian band called Rhapsody of Fire and recorded an album of “operatic” heavy-metal covers of Christmas carols. Christopher Lee, famous for villainous roles, dies at 93 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But that would be to shortchange the ingenious way Adjmi weaves sound and story into something as granular as it is operatic. Review: In ‘Stereophonic,’ the Rock Revolution Will Be Recorded 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z “To me it was quite operatic,” she says of the biography, adding that, in her mind, “I heard applause as I wrote the book.” The fight between cosmetic legends Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Their third No. 1 was “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” performed in 1963 with a gentle pop lilt rather than the original’s operatic grandeur. ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’: From Broadway Tear-Jerker to Covid-Era Anthem 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z In Ms. Bailey’s operatically gruesome vision, enhanced by elaborate digital imagery suggesting a lurid video game set in ancient Rome, depraved humanity gets the flawed, venal and corrupt leaders it deserves. | 'Julius Caesar': Cry Havoc! The Blood Sport Called Politics 2011-07-31T22:23:03Z The operagoers who went to the Met on Tuesday evening were transported back to a grand operatic vision of ancient Egypt, with soaring arias and choruses telling a story of doomed love and divided loyalties. A Cyberattack Shuts the Met Opera’s Box Office, but the Show Goes On 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z But I don’t miss the Polish act, which has always seemed a bit out of place in its deployment of operatic conventions. Review: After a Met Opera Milestone, ‘Boris’ Brings Another 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Dessau’s spare scoring for this moment is a delicate depiction of resignation, though one that still hits with true operatic intensity. A New Album Reflects a Composer’s Stubborn Versatility 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Through the 17th and 18th centuries there had been operatic depictions of formidable women scorned and abandoned: “Dido and Aeneas,” “Armide,” “Alcina.” Review: In the Met Opera’s ‘Medea,’ a Soprano Stands Alone 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z There he directed the annual summer festival from 1948, leading operatic Mozart that Virgil Thomson once called “perfection” in its “animation and orchestral delicacy,” and venturing into Gluck and Rameau. He Was an Important Conductor. Also a Great One. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z The Welsh warbler's full operatic rendition of The Phantom Of The Opera was an absolute triumph, crammed full of camp theatricality and jaw-droppingly powerful vocals. Six to watch: best X Factor performances 2010-08-20T10:49:00Z Probably to the vast mass of English people, "opera" means something ridiculous, or a singer who has never sung on the operatic stage, appearing on a talent show with a microphone. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z There was a moment when we were looking at Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach ... but in the end, I wanted to do something conventionally operatic, something that smells of a certain period. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z Fortunately, the “Ring” isn’t only about the sets, particularly once Brünnhilde, that enduring operatic archetype, enters the picture. Review | The Met Opera’s high-tech ‘Ring’ was a flop. Can a soprano change that at its revival? 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Better still, they offered a set of striking interpretive insights into thrice-familiar works: They found the proto-Romantic fervor in Mozart, the Mendelssohnian lightness in Brahms, and the operatic exuberance and scope in Mendelssohn. Review | Old is new again in Stradivari Anniversary Concert at Library of Congress 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The second movement was gracefully phrased, with first violinist Alexander Pavlovsky ornamenting the melody like an operatic soprano. Despite some weather delays, the Jerusalem Quartet lights up Shriver 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z In 1962, the younger Nabokov began to race cars competitively and until 1982 he maintained an active professional operatic career as a basso profundo. Dmitri Nabokov, son of acclaimed novelist, dies 2012-02-24T21:31:09Z Emerging in an era defined by brick-wall-backed observational humor, he brought a rock ’n’ roll swagger to political comedy, and his influence can be seen in operatically aggrieved comedians like Bill Burr and Lewis Black. Bill Hicks, Revived on Video to Jar Viewers Out of Apathy 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z Too many of the solos felt like operatic set pieces. A Diva, Two Pianists and a Pair of ‘Messiahs’: Classical Music This Week 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z High above the scene glowers a sky of operatic intensity, all scudding clouds and sudden bursts of sunlight. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z “The Fall” is clearly high drama, from the overly-fetishized crimes to the often operatic staging of various encounters that allow Stella to make her candidly feminist proclamations. TV Picks: 'Foyle's War,' 'Allegiance,' 'The Fall' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z “The relationship between the artist and his beloved here is very operatic.” Seattle Symphony to present the fantastically romantic music of Hector Berlioz 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Where plywood cars collide with plywood motorcycles, their drivers frozen in a tableau of fear and regret, while little boys bike by and homeless men push their carts past, unaware of the operatic drama. 'Hopscotch,' dubbed the 'asphalt opera,' hits the streets of L.A. 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Monteverdi’s writing in the “Vespers” is organized around a dazzling array of what, for him, were old and new forms: hymn, Gregorian chant, polyphony, operatic monody, arioso and embellished virtuoso singing. At the Armory, Monteverdi’s ‘Vespers’ Are Newly Immersive 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Rated R for “operatic splatter and stewed children,” this “crack pipe of a movie” probably isn’t for the faint of heart. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Hellboy’ and ‘Burlesque’ 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Murphy's congenital cynicism serves him best in grand, operatic stories, as proven by The People v. Review: 'American Horror Story: Cult' Is a Cathartic Success 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Yet opera lovers routinely avoid new works for just this reason: They’re not going to be on a par with the masterpieces that still make up the bulk of the operatic canon. Opera as lively art — or not-so-lively 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z In a statement Saturday, La Scala said Dessi's solid technique, strong temperament and "rare interpretative sensibility" made her one of the "most notable figures on the international operatic scene." Italian soprano Daniela Dessi dies at 59 after brief illness 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z Occasionally, during Holiday’s impressive performance, pain and hope intertwine in the same phrase — a show of skill that also produces a vertiginous, operatic power. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z “I instantly knew it would make a great operatic subject,” he said. Rufus Wainwright’s First Opera Was ‘a Nightmare.’ He’s Trying Again. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But what the opera fails to capture are the truly operatic convulsions implicit in this scene. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z Succession is brilliant at cooking up moments of operatic grandeur, but even by its own standards, the season two finale was immaculate. 'They're damaged': Succession’s Jeremy Strong on sibling hell – and that cringey rap 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z At A Noise Within in Pasadena, the design verged on the operatic. On eight-stop ‘Christmas Carol’ tour, varied takes on Ebenezer Scrooge 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Two songs by Michael Nyman, composed for the score of a 1995 film, put these ancient instruments into a pleasing pop-ballad idiom, contrasted with a more operatic idiom in arrangements of Handel arias. Review | Countertenor Iestyn Davies and Fretwork revive music old and new at Library of Congress 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z When Jewel was 15, she’d earned a scholarship to study operatic voice. Quinceañera with baby fever 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Together, Mozart and Da Ponte changed the whole direction of the operatic form. Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z The fruits of our collaboration, a half-hour operatic monologue called Intolerance, plays in London next week, as part of the Tête à Tête festival of fringe opera. Mark Ravenhill's debut opera goes for the gut 2010-08-04T20:45:00Z It was the semifinals of the most important operatic voice competition in America, and Ryan was seized by such anxiety that he felt his massive body vanishing. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z Biss is a soloist who phrases like a musical insider, looking for hidden meaning of a gesture, and Kahane gave him an operatic frame in which the pianist could do his exploration. L.A. Chamber Orchestra ending season on a sunny note 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Harking back to the days of early silent movies, the film proceeds in a dreamlike series of vignettes accompanied by the sound of Mr. Lamar singing in a keening, operatic soprano. M. Lamar: ‘Negrogothic, a Manifesto, the Aesthetics of M. Lamar’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z The one significant gap in Mark Elder's operatic CV to date is a Ring cycle. Wagner: G?tterd?mmerung 2010-05-20T21:05:00Z The fine young tenor Matthew Plenk brought ardent, operatic intensity to his arias. Oratorio Society of New York Performs ‘St. Matthew Passion’ 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Kecia Lewis brings a powerful operatic voice to the role of Marie, the woodland beggar who turns out to be Cinderella's Fairy Godmother. Enchanting 'Cinderella' brings happily-ever-after to Ahmanson 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z At first, her vocals are operatic and pretty, but soon she shrieks and moans like a woman suffering labor pains or nightmares. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Arranged for voice and piano and pared down to human size, this anthem of triumphant liberation was stripped of operatic pretensions to become an approachable, touching expression of self-realization. Ana Gasteyer, Belting Out the Zany (With Kazoo, Too) 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z It wasn’t that Pavarotti dabbled in pop music or sought the adulation of the crowd but, rather, that those things overshadowed and mostly supplanted his operatic career. Perspective | Even opera lovers should grit their teeth and watch this mediocre Pavarotti film 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z “But this represents just the tip of the operatic iceberg.” How a Forgotten Opera Made a Big Comeback 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Chang, the Guatemalan tenor of partial Chinese ancestry, not only won first place but also received the male prize for zarzuela, the Spanish operatic genre, as well as an audience prize voted by the public. Placido Domingo says Operalia prizes 'went to the right people' 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Send-ups of all things operatic would seem to be the natural way to go for this show. ArtsBeat: Funny Then and There, Here and Now 2011-07-25T16:19:24Z Simpson is also the protagonist or antihero of an operatic tragedy too implausible for fiction; if Don DeLillo or Theodore Dreiser had invented his story it would seem laughable. O.J. Simpson, American icon: Why the football star turned accused killer is one of the 20th century’s most important cultural figures 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. La Selva’s decision to stop the outdoor series will leave a small but significant gap in New York’s operatic life. ArtsBeat: New York Grand Opera Cancels Central Park Performances 2013-05-31T17:24:31Z Belong marks a shift from the operatic storytelling of those works to more personal reflections on distress and panic. Listen to Indie Pop Band San Fermin's New Single "Bride" 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z When we moved to Norfolk, Joan and I had been part of our local operatic society. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z There was no trace of the impassioned, operatic tenor that Mr. Morrison unfurled as Fabrizio in “The Light in the Piazza.” Matthew Morrison’s Show Nods to Cory Monteith at 54 Below 2013-07-15T22:01:54Z The most creative operatic work is still happening at smaller opera companies. Perspective | In classical music it was a year of building, deconstructing and, occasionally, rescuing 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Evan’s breakdown in the musical’s climactic aria, “Words Fail,” was so operatic in the theater that it unsettled the nerves. Perspective | Ben Platt’s seven-year journey with ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ has taken him from Arena Stage to Hollywood 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z But once they found Hoffman, the silly operatic montage and, again, the lunatic notion that one man's testimony ripped down Fisk's entire circus is just flat-out insane. 'Daredevil' Season 1 finale review: King of Hell's Kitchen 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The music was operatic, brimming with archetypal characters and dramatic payoffs. Album review: Coldplay, 'Mylo Xyloto' 2011-10-23T19:39:00Z The music helps, certainly — like Westeros or the Pawnee city hall, Empire Records provides a new world for audiences to explore and a vaguely operatic way to explore it. 'Empire' reigns among viewers on strength of characters and cast 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z It seems peculiar that there are no mentions of the operatic singing requirements attached to this role. Lauren Ambrose Finally Gets Her Musical 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The visually-arresting spectacle is no less modern in terms of the music, which combines brutal noise, screaming and heavy drums with traditional operatic arias to express the discrimination the Creature faces among people. Futuristic 'Frankenstein' opera poses timely questions about human... 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z And yet what seems absurd on the page is often tragic, even operatic on screen. Werner Herzog, chicken hypnotist 2012-08-28T20:54:00Z As well as Playing Cards and Wagner's Ring, Lepage is currently working on a Met premiere of Thomas Adès's operatic adaptation of The Tempest, which opens later this month. Director Robert Lepage: risking it all 2012-10-08T17:31:23Z He then holds up a ten dollar bill and launches into operatic song. Watch Titus Andromedon Audition To Be Our New 'Hamilton' 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Her voice is operatic: big and dramatic, with a huge chest register she’s not afraid to open up and wallow in, and top notes that sound fresh and clear. Jamie Barton serves up delicious recital at Wolf Trap Barns. These include a genuine interest in shifting definitions of public space in a digital age and — most important of all — a preference for measured and layered effects over operatic ones. New UC Davis art museum hints at fresh directions for American architecture 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Renoir and Degas painted the operatic world of Gounod, Meyerbeer and Bizet. LPO Music in the Courtyard - programme notes 2012-08-29T21:53:45Z This movie is operatic, crepuscular, portentous, a vision of apocalyptic catastrophe – and there are some great things in it. The Dark Knight Rises – review 2012-07-19T14:29:00Z Mr. Kushner has dabbled in librettos, but operatic texts require concision — something you don’t associate with his sweeping, capacious plays. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z There are operatic flourishes in the songs, though mostly they come across like stylish, personal pop pastiches of the art song repertory, from Schubert to Fauré to Debussy, with hints of folk and jazz. Critic?s Notebook: City Opera Begins Season With Rufus Wainwright 2011-11-18T21:43:07Z In traditional soap operatic style, as soon as she gets off the phone, she feels a sharp pain and then has a miscarriage. 'Whitney' Recap: Love, Drugs, and Bobby Brown's Side of the Story 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z It felt a bit like the operatic equivalent of passing notes in class. An Opera Lover Tests Streaming Services 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z “But when you channel these big, operatic gestures into the puppet,” he added, slowly opening its arm in a grandiose gesture, “it’s beautiful.” It’s ‘Salome.’ But With Puppets. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z But it must be the most operatic opera, the one that reflects most sweetly and profoundly on the nature of this strange, lovely hodgepodge of an art form. Review: ‘Ariadne,’ the Most Operatic Opera, Bows in Cleveland 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Bai had attempted to be a Samson bewailing blindness in hammy operatic fashion. The Sellars method: How a master director coaches singers toward greatness 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z And like the operas Mr. Rihm admired as a child, “Dionysos” is mythical and magical: an operatic fantasy, he calls it. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z The production -- Allen's only operatic staging to date -- received glowing reviews when it debuted here in 2008. Woody Allen gets jazzy in L.A.; has his disdain for the city changed? 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z There's comic relief too, and affectionate period detail; but the image that lingers is the ghostly outline of a bombed church trembling against the operatic incandescence of Foreman's fiery watercolour sky. Michael Foreman: life through a line 2011-03-07T15:39:18Z Yet this operatically portrayed Disney is granted little in the way of charm or talent. The Perfect American – review 2013-06-08T23:06:02Z The work combines, in a new and sometimes awkward way, the basic structure of opera seria with the ensembles characteristic of newer operatic genres and even the short, piquant melodies of singspiels like “Die Zauberflöte.” Mozart’s Opera ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z One of the most powerful, almost operatic, moments is when Simone continually stabs Nadia, as she submits in a sacrificial way, a scene that did not escape the Italian censors' scissors. Annie Girardot obituary 2011-03-01T18:30:50Z Mr. Gruber will perform with the Philharmonic as the chansonnier, a narrative role that involves singing in cabaret, lieder and exaggerated operatic styles as well as speaking, whispering and shrieking. Philharmonic to Present H. K. Gruber?s ?Frankenstein!!? 2011-12-04T04:23:05Z But that left an operatic hole to fill, preferably with a score that would show off the orchestra, as well as the singer who had been attached to play Messiaen’s title role, Eric Owens. Review: The Philharmonic Makes Wagner’s Gods Chillingly Human 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The pursuit of pleasure had taken on philosophical and political importance in the mid-18th century, and Europeans were falling into bed every which way, the more operatic the better. On the Trail of a Lover Boy in the Age of Enlightenment 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Born to a pair of singers in New York in 1958, Ms. Millo was that rarity: an operatic prodigy, her sound alarmingly mature when she was still in elementary school. Can the Diva Who Once Ruled the Met Make a Comeback? 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z “The full-blooded, juicy movie experience has a lot of operatic qualities,” he said in an interview after a rehearsal here. Christoph Waltz, Directing Opera, Moves From Tarantino to Verdi 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z He was doubtless alluding to the YSL-inspired peasant blouses and satin skirts, operatically billowing smocks and buoyant gowns that wafted down his runway, some leather-cinched at the waist to provide a hint of tension. New York Fashion Week: Brazen or Subtle, Mining the Past 2010-09-16T07:20:00Z For the first hour, Chin often seems to be finding her operatic footing, relying on her gift for illuminating complexity with shimmering, nearly tactile instrumental color to also supply theater. 'Alice in Wonderland' at Disney Hall proves exhilarating 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Their debut on March 7 will be on a distinguished international stage — nothing less than the 2014 Whitney Museum Biennial — with a digital film about how race haunts black identity, told in operatic form. Yams Collective Brings Work to Whitney Biennial 2014-02-21T23:23:23Z If anything, Mr. Morris’s concept of the three pieces is more operatic than the scores would imply. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Nasr plays Jude’s agony and frustration to operatic heights, with the bracing screams and the running in circles of a man who wants nothing more than to escape his own body. ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Alex Ross, in The New Yorker, went so far as to say, “Pound for pound, ton for ton, it is the most witless and wasteful production in modern operatic history.” The Met Opera’s ‘Ring’ Works Best From the Cheap Seats 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z While he lives in Paris, his concert and operatic activity rotates among Berlin, Vienna and Freiburg, Germany. Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z Her mode was melodrama, and she had an operatic tendency to exaggerate. Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z Let us know what your operatic preferences would be. Ian McEwan to make Atonement opera 2010-03-19T11:18:00Z Mr. Slater, who also worked on “Love Never Dies,” said that he suggested to Mr. Lloyd Webber, “We should think of it like Meat Loaf or Jim Steinman: huge, operatic, over-the-top rock.” Andrew Lloyd Webber: Lord, Baron, Rocker 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z More than her company peers Ms. Lemp has proven that an operatic style can adjust to fit into a precisely defined character. | 'HotelMotel': Bellhop, There?s a Play in My Room 2011-08-11T02:30:50Z Leon Botstein, the conductor and tireless champion of overlooked works, considers “Julietta” an operatic masterpiece that at least deserves a place in the repertory. Review: Leon Botstein Dusts Off a Surreal 1930s Opera 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Rufus Wainwright is reflecting on his operatic, unmistakable voice, and on how he manages, or does not manage, to keep it in check. Rufus Wainwright's operatic voice takes on 'Lulu,' the woman who lives in all of us 2010-08-18T20:16:00Z She’s experimentally minded, certainly, but her works contain plenty of more traditional operatic melody, too. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to Hear 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “One Hand, One Heart” from Bernstein’s “West Side Story” is disappointing: too somber, slow and self-consciously operatic. Classical Playlist: Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello, Milton Babbitt, Handel and More 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z “It feels like something that’s specifically operatic — that you can access that combination of emotion, motivation, motility, all those things at once, in a way that only opera can,” Mr. Muhly said. An Aria for the Long Island Lolita on ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The response should not be to discount “Porgy,” but to champion overlooked operatic portraits of black communities by black artists and foster the creation of new ones. Review: A Splendid ‘Porgy and Bess’ Opens the Met Opera Season 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Here, the restrained nature of the action masks operatic emotions to terrific effect. The Kite Runner – review 2013-04-30T11:52:13Z Being confronted with such powerful music sung by operatic voices in a small space creates its own kind of emotional tension from the outset. Review | A ‘Butterfly’ without the stereotypes takes flight at In Series 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Bigness — grand pronouncements, operatic dynamics, Mercury’s soaring voice and Brian May’s titanic guitar buildups — was the cornerstone of Queen’s music. When Queen Took ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ to Live Aid 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The feeling seemed to be that while quirky period pieces featuring feisty, sassy, operatically emotional heroines are OK for “Bridgerton” and “Dickinson,” two recent streaming series, they are not OK for Jane Austen. Why Is It So Hard to Adapt Austen? (The Fans Might Play a Part.) 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The BBC Singers formed the vivid chorus in this lusciously operatic score, and supplied a series of excellent mini-solos along the way. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z McMahon may have to roll over on some things to appease his ostensible superior, but he’s played the long game before, only to plot an operatic revenge. Perspective | Can Vince McMahon really share power with Ari Emanuel? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z If this sounds operatic, Basch reminds us that it’s Noah’s telling. ‘The Listener,’ by Rachel Basch 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z She grew up to be a lyric soprano with a bachelor’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, but the operatic parts she dreamed of did not come her way. Margaret Juntwait, the Voice of the Met on Radio, Dies at 58 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The London-based singer describes himself as a lirico-spinto tenor, versatile enough to sing within limits both the lyrical and dramatic roles of the operatic repertoire. India's lone male tenor aims to sing opera in local key 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The operatic revival began in earnest with Deng Xiaoping’s great thaw. China's First Lady of Opera 2010-03-04T16:16:00Z What if audiences were allowed to find this music over the course of a week, or even a full month, like they can with orchestral and operatic programming? Review: Carnegie Hall Makes an Intimate Space More Intimate 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The piece itself is often casually described as operatic, largely thanks to a quote from Così Fan Tutte in the final movement. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Sinfonia Concertante in E flat; Symphony No 31 'Paris' 2010-07-08T21:39:00Z The fourth movement, alas, was a letdown, with Tamara Wilson’s matronly, almost operatic treatment of the solo soprano part at odds with its childlike character. A reshuffled Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can’t quite fill the void after headliner’s exit While Dudamel lacks that upbringing in the nuances and logistical complexities of the art form, and his operatic appearances have been sporadic, he is not unknown at major houses. Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Conductor, Will Lead Paris Opera 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z He took the first movement slower than usual in an attempt to untangle its overcomplex counterpoint, while the second half was operatic in its urgency. Hall?/BBCPO/Elder 2010-05-05T22:00:00Z Now pasticcios are taking on new life, in mighty operatic precincts as well as in humbler ones. Music Review: Variety Show, With Arias Thrown In 2010-10-25T22:48:00Z Ms. Curtin was by all accounts an undivalike diva, and though she maintained a deep regard for the music she sang, she did not appear to take the operatic life too seriously. Phyllis Curtin, American Soprano Who Championed New Music, Dies at 94 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z On Friday afternoon at the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum’s medieval collection in Upper Manhattan, a talented group of performers made a convincing case that there was something decidedly operatic happening far before the Renaissance. Music Review: ‘The Play of Daniel’ at the Cloisters 2013-01-13T21:22:12Z Langridge studied at the Royal Academy of Music and appeared on all the world's great operatic stages. Tenor Philip Langridge dies at 70 2010-03-07T13:56:00Z The point is, there is a lot be exercised about when it comes to the behemoths of our operatic institutions, but Thicknesse misses his targets with a contradictory analysis of what's going on. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z “Hill Street” was operatic yet intimate, institutional but personal; it changed the look, feel and flavor of cop shows for decades to come. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Following the operatic double bill Where the Wild Things Are/Higglety Pigglety Pop! on Saturday, the second day was devoted to orchestral and chamber works. The Pilgrim's Progress; Total Immersion: Knussen at 60 – review 2012-11-11T00:05:45Z “It’s a season that’s equal parts hilarity, innovation and operatic scale,” Lear deBessonet, the artistic director of Encores!, a concert series that revives classic and rare musicals, said on Wednesday in a news release. Coming to City Center: ‘Pal Joey,’ ‘Titanic’ and the 20th Fall for Dance 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Despite Mr. Brook’s success with such endeavors, neither of those operas has vanished from the operatic repertory. Critic?s Notebook: ?Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? on Broadway Is More for Theater Fans 2012-01-21T01:16:06Z It’s hard to think of a choreographer who better skirts the pitfalls of pop ballet, and in the operatic rock of Queen, Mr. McIntyre found a superior match. Trey McIntyre Puts His Company to Rest at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Daniel, the kings and Balthasar’s queen have chanted monologues with the specificity and emotional richness of later operatic arias. Music Review: ‘The Play of Daniel’ at the Cloisters 2013-01-13T21:22:12Z Certainly Intermezzo's pacing feels more cinematic than operatic: 13 snappy episodes are divided by orchestral intermezzos – like breaks in a sitcom when the camera scans the city skyline. Strauss's Intermezzo: Scottish Opera whip up a perfect storm in a teacup 2011-03-24T22:30:01Z Having glanced at the lengthy libretto, I mentioned that this character seems like a striking addition to the Braxton operatic canon: a secret agent gifted in karate. Anthony Braxton Composes Together Past, Present and Future 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Rather then pursue an operatic career, she preferred popular music, a genre that brought her wide popularity in Poland - where the family returned in 1948 after the World War II - and abroad. Poland's Villas, Las Vegas star in 1960s, dies 2011-12-06T12:16:17Z There are no great operatically scaled heroes; there is no huge tragedy. Music Review: ‘Doubt,’ Adaptation Performed by Minnesota Opera 2013-02-03T23:24:03Z In recent seasons, though, it has taken its critical knocks for its many soap operatic turns — long-lost heirs, being stood up at the altar, convenient fatal car crashes and babies born out of wedlock. Change is in the air at 'Downton Abbey' 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Personals, with their economical writing, are by their nature poetic, and rise to the operatic in the rhythmic and lyrical speech of the junior interrogators. Review: An Espionage Opera Remains Enigmatic and Urgent 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Braxton specializes in dramatic, emotional epics, songs that are practically operatic in scope; her most enduring hit is “Un-Break My Heart,” a sweeping power ballad. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z He did not have a trained operatic voice and, in many interviews over the years, was the first to admit it. John Reed, Master of Gilbert and Sullivan?s Patter Songs, Dies at 94 2010-02-28T04:19:00Z Kierkegaard was forthright in declaring that his philosophy was designed to ameliorate, or at least manage, existential unease — “fear and trembling” as he operatically phrased it — in a chaotic-feeling modern Europe. The Danish Experience: Art That Marries Real and Ideal 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z The town’s humility is the basis for an operatic strain of chauvinism among the foreign set. T Magazine: Lost in Time 2013-05-09T14:30:49Z But Goldwyn and LaGravenese seem more interested in examining the small decisions, the omissions made for expediency, the assumptions not challenged, than any grand, soap operatic conspiracy. 'The Divide' on WE tv smartly smudges race, class stereotypes 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Porgy and Bess is one of the greatest operatic masterpieces of all time, and is performed all too infrequently. ‘Porgy and Bess’ With a White Cast Stirs Controversy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z He was correct to be proud of what he had achieved: an imposing operatic spectacle that avoids Meyerbeer’s bloated heroics and Massenet’s often fussy decorations, not to mention the grand-opera overkill that smothers Wagner’s “Rienzi.” ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z The infusion of opera seems intended to supersize the scale of “You Can Count on Me” to be “operatic.” Critic’s Notebook: How Hollywood Films Are Killing Opera 2012-08-16T21:49:50Z "Andor," another offshoot of Disney's steadily expanding "Star Wars" galaxy, is the least space operatic title in the franchise's library next to "Rogue One." From bureaucratic drudgery to prison labor, “Andor” shows how exploitation leads to the Dark Side 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Indeed, one of the issues in choosing music written specifically for three very different singers has been how to reconcile the specificity of this operatic troika with my own vocal and stylistic idiosyncrasies. The original three tenors 2010-10-21T21:25:00Z On Saturday, many of the tunes began as ballads, with Anthony’s yearning, almost operatic tenor supported principally by piano, acoustic guitar or, in one case, synthesized strings. Review | Marc Anthony elicits screams, swoons and singalongs at Washington concert 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Vocally, everyone was best when singing in a more conversational than “operatic” dynamic range. A powerful opera about a horrible subject 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Despite its share of buoyant moments, the film takes on a somewhat operatic tone as it intriguingly explores such themes as greed, faith, jealousy, pride and, of course, climate change. 'Jal' like a cool sip of water in these drought-centric times 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Reissued on CD, it has found a permanent home on the Chandos label, along with nearly 60 other English-language recordings of operatic masterpieces. Peter Moores and His Campaign for Opera in English 2010-08-22T01:53:00Z The final section is setting Lorca's "Sleepwalking Ballad," which was sung in an English translation with operatic stress by Heidi Stober. Hurricane Mama's impressive set of pipes 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Lippa not only wrote the words and music but also sang the title role in a fervent voice that maintained a secure balance between operatic declamation and Broadway informality. Music Review: Andrew Lippa's ‘I Am Harvey Milk’ 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Horan infuses both of these portraits with color, passion and intellectual spark, creating an operatic tale that is dead-on in its portrayal of pre-feminism-era women and their limited opportunities. The top 50 fiction books for 2014 “His singing was heartbreaking but not operatic,” he continued, citing “Why Don’t You Love Me,” which opens and closes his movie. A New Map to Hank Williams’s Lost Highways 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Voigt is one of the world’s great interpreters of the weighty and refined operatic roles of Wagner, Strauss and Verdi. Deborah Voigt, Meet Ethel Merman 2010-07-22T19:27:00Z They hired her as the cover — an operatic understudy — for the title part, already a coup for an unknown singer in her mid-20s plucked, as it were, from the chorus line. A Young Singer Takes the Opera World by Storm 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z The musicians dove into “Yearning: A Sweet Torture” with operatic verve. Taipei Symphony makes Strathmore debut with pride and passion 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Wuorinen, whose proudly atonal music also tends to be majestic, bristling and not particularly friendly, saw “Brokeback Mountain” on screen without ever having read Ms. Proulx’s work, and immediately saw operatic potential. Charles Wuorinen Adapts ‘Brokeback Mountain’ as Opera 2014-01-24T19:26:19Z It had an operatic power, not just because of the glorious music coming out of the radio, but because it was all about what we might call "the musicality of the moment." A grand finale for "Mildred Pierce" 2011-04-11T13:01:00Z And opera: operatic voices are just so unnatural. Nigel Kennedy 2013-03-05T17:45:00Z It's as if Martinoty concluded that any creativity in the staging would be a distraction from the musical and verbal mastery of this fantastic operatic duo. Mozart opera in Vienna is a mixed bag 2011-02-22T13:30:08Z It’s as if Ostermeier, directing for the first time in an operatic context, stopped short of going truly big. At Glamorous French Festivals, Poverty is Only Onstage 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z This is a story of operatic complexity, narrated in many voices, rich in imagery, but sometimes poor in discipline. He Can’t Remember His Name. Maybe He Doesn’t Want To? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z And it's another coup for Cardiff, the biennial competition that has launched dozens of stellar operatic careers since it was set up in 1983. Cardiff captures Kiri Te Kanawa 2011-01-21T15:43:25Z I remember so well my first really major professional operatic experience, at Houston Grand Opera, and it was “The Marriage of Figaro.” An Opera Diva and a Broadway Star Trade Places, and Advice 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z And Mr. Kentridge has given it his most elegant and powerful operatic treatment yet, in a production that opened on Tuesday at the Salzburg Festival and will travel to the Met in the 2019-20 season. Review: William Kentridge’s Triumphant ‘Wozzeck’ Will Come to the Met Opera 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z But when all is said and done, this is a far more genuine and rewarding experience than some of the soul-destroying travesties of core operatic repertoire you sometimes encounter elsewhere. Madam Butterfly ? review 2011-02-25T19:16:56Z Even Eötvös's surprise operatic hit in 1998, Three Sisters, couldn't be further from the spirit of Angels; it's serenely beautiful and detailed, but frosty and forbidding. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z Verdi, writing in his best operatic style but without benefit of stage trappings, conjures a terrifying sonic image of the Day of Judgment in this grandiose setting of the Mass for the dead. Review: Verdi’s Requiem, in All Its Theatricality and Resonance 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Andrew Scott, so operatically camp as Moriarty in Sherlock, is all economical moodiness in this drama about a reluctant hometown returnee searching for the truth behind his parents' deaths. Catch-up TV guide: from Homeland to The Town 2012-12-15T00:05:19Z Set in Queensland in the early 1980s, the diffuse and episodic narrative of Bliss might have seemed impossible to reconcile with a standard operatic structure. Bliss 2010-09-03T20:31:00Z Even the guest stars are impressive, such as Simon Russell Beale as an operatic Egyptologist and David Warner as Van Helsing. Stylish horror: new ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ ‘Penny Dreadful’ 2014-05-08T22:16:20Z “Porgy” is also one of the great operatic portraits of a community; as such, its true stars are the chorus singers, matching the instrumentalists with vigor and richly textured delivery. Review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to a New Opera Landscape 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z It lends keening, operatic drama to pop songs, and creates an ambiguous, gender-neutral voice that is particularly efficient in soul when role-playing relationship drama. Hey, what's that sound: Falsetto 2011-02-01T16:00:00Z Archetypal and specific, good and bad, Disney is, in other words, an ideal operatic character. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z Rather than operatic, these lives are fairly mundane, some sporadic violence aside. Modern life is a fragmented place in 'Carmen Disruption' at City Garage 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Carlo Bergonzi, one of the 20th century’s most distinguished operatic tenors, renowned for the refined interpretive taste and keen musical intelligence he brought to his art, died on Friday in Milan. Carlo Bergonzi, Masterful Operatic Tenor, Dies at 90 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Imbued with lilting melodies, the pieces often sound like wordless songs or operatic arias. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z By couching the family's struggle into standard operatic forms — arias, ensemble numbers — Vavrek gives convincing shape to the two-hour-plus-long work, making a virtue of the need to elaborate. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z While recalling the starkness of Greek tragedy, “Innocence” is also among the first operatic barometers of our globalized age’s travails. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Yet this problem of dramatic incongruity appears strangely relevant to the current moment; the intensely self-involved preoccupations of the élite operatic characters render them blind to the casual ferocity of the hard-drinking, war-loving chorus. Opera and Brexit in London 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z In something of an operatic mad scene, he visits a barber who dyes his hair, powders him with ghost-white makeup and rouges his cheeks. Visconti’s Operatic Autopsy of German History, Restored Anew 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z If you’re not a fan, that “Hotel California” feeling, that jumpy angst its opening notes provide, signalling the operatic kitsch to come, can come to represent your entire feeling about the Eagles. Glenn Frey and That Peaceful, Queasy Feeling 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Though on Tuesday, Ms. Oropesa sang a thoughtful selection of songs with operatic richness and charisma, she adapted her approach just enough to meet the demands of a smaller-scale, word-driven art form. Review: Lisette Oropesa Scales Down Her Voice but Not Her Presence 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z And the combination of operatic style with a liturgical text was to prove influential: Verdi's Requiem, though very different in tone, is in many ways unthinkable without it. RLPO/Dantone – review 2013-04-30T17:45:23Z Don’t get us wrong, there’s much to appreciate about Mike Colter’s work in “Marvel’s Luke Cage” and Terrence Howard’s operatic fire in “Empire.” "So simple it’s revolutionary": On the increased variety of black male characters on TV 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Born into a musical family in South Africa, operatic soprano Pretty Yende grew up singing gospel music in church. Opera singer Pretty Yende says new album highlights her young career 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z As the whistleblower, I'm naturally an incorruptible observer of this operatic cesspool. Tom Service on the great opera scam 2010-09-01T20:45:00Z A spokesman for the company said that as the work gets closer to completion, Mr. Heath will work with a composer with more operatic experience. ArtsBeat: Opera Philadelphia to Take On Andy Warhol 2014-04-24T17:30:19Z Since the novel was published, there have been at least five English-language film adaptations, an operatic interpretation and numerous stage adaptations. Why Gatsby is so great 2012-06-09T23:05:21Z After the war he extended his operatic appearances, singing the role of the auctioneer Sellem in the premiere at Venice of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress in 1951 at the composer's express behest. Hugues Cu?nod obituary 2010-12-08T19:10:00Z “It’s the grand result of thousands of artists and artisans who create operatic magic on our stage and in the pit night after night, season after season, and decade after decade.” James Levine Denies ‘Unfounded’ Sexual Abuse Accusations 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z For this, the most operatic rock ’n’ roll ballad of its time, they added strings. An Appraisal: Igniting a Revolution, Starting with ?Hound Dog? 2011-08-23T22:26:40Z Hear up-and-coming operatic voices at the Metropolitan Opera National Council regional auditions, to be held at Meany Hall on Sunday. Region's best opera voices compete in Seattle on Sunday 2011-01-13T19:53:09Z A new operatic genre that merges cultural traditions is slowly being created. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Watching the 80-minute performance, I kept thinking that the operatic Marilyn was given exactly the kind of typecasting that the real Monroe was trying to escape. In 'Marilyn Forever,' Monroe yearns to be merely herself 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s daunting because it’s going into a completely new area, and certainly not one my operatic fan base is used to seeing me in. Deborah Voigt to Play ?Annie Get Your Gun? Lead 2010-07-22T21:29:00Z It was a recital excellent enough that I wanted it to be just slightly better, with more of the intensity that Mr. Davies consistently brings to his operatic work. Music Review: Iestyn Davies at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-17T01:09:20Z It doesn’t strive for the operatic grandeur of the “Godfather” movies or for the tragicomic flair of Martin Scorsese’s mobster movies. Movie Review: ‘The Iceman,’ With Michael Shannon as Richard Kuklinski 2013-05-02T22:01:34Z It also was funny, engaging and appealing, embracing a wide range of musical styles and successfully blending operatic tradition — it takes off from Mozart’s “Nozze di Figaro” — with a contemporary musical idiom. An opera revisited, on a new scale 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The Annie Lennox appearance, which she described afterward as “from the operatic to quite raw,” reached a crescendo as the models in streamlined suits gathered around her. Special Report: A Birthday for Dolce and Gabbana 2010-06-20T16:39:00Z Beethoven attempts to appropriate and transform operatic methods of his day, comic and epic, into a screed of unrealistic political and conjugal idealism. Beethoven's messy opera 'Fidelio' is in fine hands in San Francisco 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z The result was a brilliantly strategic retreat from the operatic frontline marked out by cinema. Rewind TV: Boardwalk Empire; The Big C; Louis Theroux ? Ultra Zionists; Welcome to Romford 2011-02-06T00:05:43Z They didn’t distract too much at the time from his “real” operatic work, and once that heady era was over, he smoothly returned to the opera house. Pavarotti Captured the Sublime and Vulgar Sides of Opera 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Even so, the drastic changes of tone in Crimp’s libretto for “Picture” have brought a new, dramatic volatility to his operatic writing. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Curtis, making her film debut, turned out to be a natural, delivering a persuasive performance of operatic panic that suggested a ferocious core. ‘Halloween’ 1978: The Times Finally Reviews a Horror Classic 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Hitchcock's low-budget, black-and-white shocker looks like a bad dream of crystalline clarity and detail, ushered in with crazed operatic intensity by Bernard Herrmann's superb score. My favourite Hitchcock: Psycho 2012-07-23T10:57:21Z Mr. Black, who had an impressive vocal range, opened the song slowly, almost operatically, before the melody turned upbeat. Jay Black, Soaring Lead Singer of the Americans, Dies at 82 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Then an operatic soundtrack soared to life and model Karlie Kloss appeared at the foot of the grand staircase, dressed like a bewitching firebird — all red feathers and fearsome grace. Dolce and Gabbana are rich, extravagant and politically incorrect. You got a problem with that? 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z He misses the sense of joyful impulsiveness that characterized operatic performance at the beginning of his career in the 1980s that has too often been replaced by “thinking, thinking, thinking.” Old-Fashioned Approach to Met?s New ?Don Giovanni? 2011-10-09T03:45:05Z The segue, from a simple hymn-like melody, known around the world, to a full operatic scene, with shifting emotions and musical textures, would be too jarring. Perspective | Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert wasn’t the moment of racial reconciliation we like to think 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The original Broadway production starred the operatic baritone Robert Weede as Tony, the middle-aged Italian immigrant vineyard owner in Napa, Calif., in the late 1920s. Music Review: Frank Loesser?s ?Most Happy Fella,? at Dicapo Opera 2012-03-10T00:57:23Z If that sounds soap operatic, brace yourself: In an open, loving homage to Spanish-language telenovelas, the story only gets more convoluted — and more fun. Why we need narrators: “Jane the Virgin” has the best voice-over on TV 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Adams grabs onto all kinds of influences, from Kurt Weill to James Brown and gospel, and providing everything from his personal Minimalist bounce to, in Dewain's powerful "Song of Liberation and Surprise," operatic transcendence. John Adams' 'Ceiling/Sky' remains earthbound 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z The way it was photographed, it looked operatically huge, like a town in a Sergio Leone movie, with barrooms and living rooms the size of airplane hangars and suburban streets that looked a half-mile wide. Breaking Bad 4x2: "Thirty-eight Snub" 2011-07-25T15:45:00Z After all, she had to school traditional operatic forces in her idiosyncratic, Buddhism-inspired process, which is as much a way of life as a way of making music. Meredith Monk Lets Go of Her Masterpiece 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Comprising 80 or more boys and girls chosen by audition, the Met children’s chorus is a rigorous training academy, offering instruction in singing, stage deportment and operatic diction in a spate of languages. Elena Doria, Beloved and ‘Strict as Hell’ Director of Met Children’s Chorus, Dies at 90 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z In "Einstein on the Beach," Philip Glass and Robert Wilson began with a blank operatic slate while embracing the technology available in an opera house. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z “Any operatic contract which I accept in Europe still allows me the possibility to be with my family at least for a day or two each week,” Mr. Kaufmann said. Jonas Kaufmann: A Tenor in Demand, Now in Short Supply 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Although it was not any more accurate, Pasetti accepted it because Schwarzkopf’s status as a celebrity diva had convinced him that “no other suitable singer” was available for major operatic performances. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z “Actually, it’s quite the contrary that I want for the operatic culture,” he added. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Takes Over the Met’s Young Artist Program 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z But even given the lumpiness of the result, Copeland's setting is woefully stilted, too often ending up as a kind of operatic rap. OperaShots ? review 2011-04-10T21:01:01Z The interior designer toasted the new hotel, calling it a temple to “privacy and experience,” which, given all the operatic singing and Aqua Mirabilis-spiced wine, imbued the event with an eerie Fidelio-is-the-password vibe. In Rome, It’s Luxury vs. Squalor 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Glass pre-emptively dismissed any notion that Disney was a more frivolous subject than others in his personal operatic pantheon: among them, Gandhi, Columbus and Galileo. ArtsBeat: Philip Glass, at Spoleto USA as Speaker and Spectator, Also Performs 2012-06-03T20:00:22Z Crowded with figures from different eras, cultures and narratives, these paintings become almost operatic. Robert Colescott Throws Down the Gauntlet 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Elodie Lauten, an American composer known for her operatic setting of the work of Allen Ginsberg, died on June 3 in Manhattan. Elodie Lauten, Who Wove Opera From Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry, Dies at 63 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Norman, 69, is still capable of glorious sounds, but they need the drama of an operatic delivery and rich heated vibrato to ignite. Review: Jessye Norman’s Salute to the Love Song at Carnegie Hall 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z But Patrick Morganelli's opera did remind us of the latest major effort at operatic reform. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z But video opera — that is, operatic works conceived for video — has a spottier history, which is curious. Review: Librettos and Ariosos Meet Video at Anthology Film Archives 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z “It wasn’t right, but it was right on time,” Carlile declares, rising to an operatic peak and, in the final iteration, leaping up from there, perfectly poised between personal heartache and stagy flamboyance. Brandi Carlile, Larger Than Life and Achingly Human 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z The result is a bit like someone trying to steal the fire from some highfalutin' operatic debut by staging a fractured fairy tale on fuzzy guitar and keyboards in some small loft the week before. Review: Haste makes nonstop non sequitur in 'Awesome' member Jose Bold's 'Spidermann' 2011-01-21T18:59:04Z To tackle such themes so unironically, so operatically, seems to my older self too risky to contemplate. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-07-06T21:43:01Z The performance combined everything from children’s voices to operatic singing to what sounded like a jet engine. Outer Space, via Virtual Reality, in Prospect Park 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Dressed as an ersatz Freddie Mercury and surrounded by a tableau vivant version of the predella, Ms. Warren performs the song with hilarious, operatic commitment. Review: Jaimie Warren, at American Medium, Mashes Up Freddie Mercury and Saints 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z But "Show Boat," which raises racial and social issues never before thought possible in a Broadway musical, has another, greater claim to operatic fame. 'Show Boat' keeps rollin' along fine style in San Francisco 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The last 15 minutes of “There’s Something Else Going On” are a suspenseful, operatic race to completion, as Carrie enters the final stages of negotiating Saul’s release from captivity. How “Homeland” became an action movie 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The result is a movie that, for all its operatic allusions and actorly expertise, feels dismayingly passionless. Review: In ‘Bel Canto,’ Music Is the Food of Love and Rebellion 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z In a sense, he may have been captive to his early operatic memories, to the lingering Gilded Age milieu in which he got to know the art. Orson Welles, Musician 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Music Link International – an offshoot of Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity – commissioned this operatic version of the story, which premiered in Los Angeles in 1998. Fantastic Mr Fox ? review 2011-02-20T21:30:01Z Mr. Noseda brought a mix of operatic flair and structural rigor to the great choral finale. Gianandrea Noseda Conducts Beethoven at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The musical has long stretches of spoken dialogue with orchestral underscoring, one of its more operatic elements. Music Review: Can?t Help Seeking That Middle Ground in ?Show Boat? 2012-02-29T23:43:57Z At their core, Ron's virtuoso keyboards buoy Russell's bold and operatic vocals, although the Sparks sound then morphs and evolves depending on styles and eras. Sparks talk new album, ever-growing fanbase: "Our audiences are pretty accepting of eccentricities" 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Because there's no voice from these perspectives, they just become fodder for the development of the soap operatic stories of white wealth and power fighting their fights and struggling for dominance. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z The whole thing is "operatically mad," Bradshaw says, "and the city-destroying final confrontation is becoming a bit familiar, but Whedon carries it off with such joy and even a kind of evangelism." 'Avengers: Age of Ultron': Solid, if not marvelous, early reviews say 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z The vocal soloists, all with operatic leanings, were nevertheless varied. Review: Philharmonic Replies to $50 Million With ‘Hallelujah’ 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z “We’d thought of making it even more operatic, sort of pre-Raphaelite, but we both knew we already had it—it was all in her face in the bedroom,” McKinniss said. The Artist Sam McKinniss on Capturing Lorde in the Twilight 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Two recently released box sets from Sony celebrate the power and intensity of Tucker’s voice in religious, popular and operatic selections. Critic’s Notebook: Singing in the Rain in Tribute to Richard Tucker 2013-08-29T22:07:53Z Among Liszt’s most valuable contributions during his lifetime were his hundreds of piano transcriptions of operatic and orchestral works, which allowed the scores to be widely disseminated before the existence of recorded music. Music Review: For Liszt?s 200th, a Youthful Tribute 2011-02-22T00:00:09Z For all the operatic trappings of “Happy Fella,” the gritty first scene is right out of Broadway. Music Review: Frank Loesser?s ?Most Happy Fella,? at Dicapo Opera 2012-03-10T00:57:23Z Is “Séance” a musical theater work with operatic elements? Opera Review: An Opera Strays Into a Clairvoyant Realm 2011-04-20T15:57:07Z It’s become not just epic but operatic, with memorable side characters and a sense of humor. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Do It Yourself 2011-12-12T13:20:05Z The operatic performance style Tsikurishvili imposes on the actors doesn’t help. Review | On this occasion, lots of bugs in Synetic Theater’s system 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Other operatic projects he was linked to, with other companies, never came to fruition. ‘Rigoletto,’ in Rat Pack-Style, at the Met 2013-01-23T13:00:00Z Yet Serebrennikov wisely pivots to a more operatic approach in the second half with a large chorus of singers and dancers, all in black monk’s cowls. Avignon Festival Gets Its Buzz Back 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z In Woodward's case, the opposite is true: his characters are so much larger than life, so richly operatic, that it's hard to accept he didn't invent them wholesale for the purposes of a good narrative. A life in writing: Gerard Woodward 2012-11-23T22:55:10Z Ticciati, who will be 31 when he takes over, is principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and balances orchestral and operatic performances. Ticciati to direct Glyndebourne 2011-07-01T07:55:23Z Burton’s world—our world—is a warm, expansive universe, glorious and swirling and operatic and beautiful. “Life Story,” Virginia Lee Burton’s Picture Book for the Ages 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z His films don’t have the deep historical layering or the self-punishing energy of Martin Scorsese’s work, or the operatic rhetoric of Francis Ford Coppola’s. Postscript: Michael Cimino, 1939–2016 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Set in London, the novel takes on the torments of creativity and the music business and “deals with mythic and operatic themes including a maze, divine madness, and long-lost children.” Pete Townshend novel, ‘The Age of Anxiety,’ out in November 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z China’s lack of exposure to essential operatic languages or stagecraft is a byproduct of the Cultural Revolution. Soprano He Hui Is Blazing a Trail for China's Opera Singers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z In Symphony No. 12, Glass creates a freer, more expressive singing line and, rather than employing an operatic soloist as usual, has given the vocal part to West African pop star Angélique Kidjo. With world premiere of his thrilling 12th Symphony, Philip Glass continues to intrigue 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z Ullmann, who was Jewish and had been a pupil of the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, wrote the operatic satire on Adolf Hitler knowing full well that it would lead to his death. Viktor Ullmann's opera written in Nazi concentration camp revived in Berlin 2013-05-24T12:08:41Z There will be 17 singers – and the audience of up to 400 will be able to encounter them as close-up as they like, rather than being separated by the traditional operatic orchestra pit. ENO joins pioneering theatre company for East End opera 2010-03-31T14:40:00Z Historically that has not automatically been a sign of operatic success. With L.A. Opera's 'Moby-Dick,' call it a success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Young said his contribution was to convince her to play down her bookish side, advising her to be “as operatic as you can be about it — you’re not a conceptual artist.” Kara Walker Creates a Confection at the Domino Refinery 2014-04-25T14:00:08Z Turns with the local operatic society followed; he also performed at the end of the pier, miming to songs and delivering Victorian comic monologues. Rupert Graves: 'Genuinely, it helps in this business being called Rupert' 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z But a new act now opens in Europe's most extraordinary operatic saga. Bayreuth's King Lear | Martin Kettle 2010-03-23T09:30:00Z Ms. Radvanovsky, who lives in Toronto, is encouraged in her dieting and operatic endeavors by her husband, Duncan Lear, a Canadian who travels with her and is her business manager. Critic?s Notebook: At the Met, a Soprano Ascendant 2011-04-19T21:15:09Z The way he sees it, traditional operatic singing is an art in crisis. At Caramoor, an Operatic Milestone That’s Both Farewell and Beginning 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Other performers seem to switch between conversational lightness of singing and operatic heft in mid-song. | 'The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess': Bess Claims Top Billing in New Version of Gershwins? Classic 2011-09-01T13:17:56Z Melding together works from the operatic and Motown canons, this suite is an inner monologue as much as a formal experiment. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z But to take a work as scented as Gounod's Faust, a five-act grand operatic plum, and strip it down to white coats takes gumption. Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Harsent has gone on to write five pieces with Birtwistle, as well as other operatic work, including Jonathan Dove's Channel 4 opera about the death of Diana. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z Their every physical gesture is an opera cliché, the problematic flip side of modern operatic vocal training. 'Norma' and 'La Clemenza di Tito' make for a Roman feast 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z BY now Leos Janacek’s music is firmly established in the orchestral, chamber and, most of all, operatic repertories. Janacek Choral Works on CD ? Review 2012-01-13T16:27:20Z A multiseason series can’t live in the operatic intensity of a fantasy film; it needs to build a world, evolve character and develop story arcs over time. ‘The Rings of Power’ Review: Shiny, Not Yet Precious 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Flow and pace are handled with easy authority by the conductor, Anthony Negus, who steers this operatic colossus as if it were a bird on the wing. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z When the sequence is repeated, the first "Remember me" has a slightly weaker, more tremulous quality, while the last is suddenly bolder, more operatic. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z Maybe if Scalia had been on hand, he could have dissented on the side of operatic adventure. With Derrick Wang's 'Scalia/Ginsburg,' a unanimous opinion 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Both are operatic types, making arias out of their affection and abhorrence. Review: In ‘The Last of the Love Letters,’ Passion Is Inescapable 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z If a new appointment were to come in the midst of that, the Staatskapelle Berlin seems likeliest, not least because of its union of symphonic and operatic responsibilities, like Thielemann’s Dresden job. One of the World’s Great Maestros Is Suddenly a Free Agent 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z At the last minute the stage-shy Walter, pressured to perform, discovers his special talent as an operatic whistler and wins his place in the Muppet clan, and the movie lays on the inspirational shtick. | 'The Muppets': ?The Muppets,? With Jason Segel and Amy Adams - Review 2011-11-22T13:00:00Z He also gets to suffer one of those extended operatic death scenes usually reserved for sopranos, and he even reappears briefly from heaven in Act 4 to help lead the Christians to victory. Rising tenor Fabiano tackles early Verdi 2013-04-05T14:03:11Z Soprano Lucy Perry handled the set with just enough operatic drama to add extra shape to the character and navigated its vocal demands with a broad range of emotion. D.C.’s Great Noise Ensemble reprises favorites as celebrates 10th season 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z America has always had a tendency towards the operatic but, fuelled by the hand grenade of insanity that is Donald Trump, it’s reached new heights of hysteria. 'Trump made me do it': director Nicolas Winding Refn on how the American apocalypse is fuelling 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z In the end, Mr. Alagna agreed to take on the high-stakes challenge — the latest chapter in a 32-year singing career that has been operatic in more than one sense of the word. Better Call Roberto: Alagna Steps In to ‘Manon Lescaut’ 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z In the transitions from full-bodied operatic singing to crooning, Mr. Kaufmann’s different levels of experience showed through. Review: Jonas Kaufmann Dials Up the Swoon Factor 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z But being an operatic person doesn’t mean you’ll create a good opera. Kanye West Is Operatic. His Opera Isn’t. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z “Fidelio” is one of a number of operatic masterpieces that hover between two genres. Perspective | Strong woman confronts unjust ruler — opera tells, and retells, the story 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z What the piece lacks, though, is subtlety — not a conventionally operatic trait but something that new audiences might appreciate, particularly when it comes to difficult material. ‘Dead Man Walking’ is a new opera for old audiences 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z “What I came to realize,” he said, “was that the whole plot of the movie is essentially operatic.” Opera in Film Takes On a New Note in ‘Bel Canto’ (It’s Not Evil) 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z His power of projection was later matched only by a nearly operatic Chuck Jackson, belting his signature hit, “Any Day Now,” in tribute to Scott and his widow, Jeanie. Jimmy Scott Honored at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z A highly regarded operatic tenor, Mr. Castel was himself a mainstay of the Met’s stable, appearing in nearly 800 performances with the company from the 1970s onward. Nico Castel, Tenor and Diction Coach at the Met, Dies at 83 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Turnage and Mr. Thomas have come up with a slew of operatic characters that singers are going to relish, as this cast did. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z This will be the fourth summer in which Tete à Tete has taken up residence at Riverside Studios to present its very individual perspective on all things operatic. This week's new live music 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z “It feels as if the play was really asking for this to happen. It’s so emotional, and is such a huge story that it is almost operatic. It felt very natural.” ‘Streetcar’ duo had mutual desire 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Still, even Mozart’s sonatas and symphonies are full of operatic touches. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four Part 2 2011-01-11T12:00:49Z And if any of Britten's major operatic works deserves wholesale reappraisal in the composer's centenary year, it's surely this one. Britten's comic hero Albert Herring: the only virgin in the village 2013-05-08T17:59:01Z While opera lovers have long been known to silently join in with recordings in the privacy of their homes, can there be a true operatic performance based on mouthing along? Drag Star Sasha Velour Lip-Syncs for Her Operatic Life 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z With their hour-long “Penny,” they managed something that’s hard to achieve under the auspices of a program involving so many operatic cooks: originality. With ‘Penny,’ WNO shows merits of American Opera Initiative 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z American composer Charles Wuorinen saw the operatic potential of the doomed romance between two Wyoming sheep herders, however, and asked Proulx to write the libretto. Brokeback Mountain opera gives voice to frustrated cowboy love 2014-01-27T16:36:01Z That's unusual: he only sings in the Prologue, and then almost always gets the operatic equivalent of an early bath. Ariadne ducks the bombs at the Glyndebourne festival 2013-05-15T18:00:02Z Liszt nevertheless continued to entertain potential operatic projects well into adulthood, though none were completed. Review | Franz Liszt’s unfinished ‘Sardanapalo’ opera makes its U.S. premiere at Library of Congress 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z But I was probably not alone among Mr. Polenzani’s admirers on Sunday to be struck by the intensity and operatic swagger of his singing here. Music Review: A Swagger and Some Bluster for the Sake of Telling Stories 2011-04-04T21:28:36Z Set in Argentina, and shot mostly in black-and-white, it revolves around the strained reunion of two estranged brothers, which builds up to a family showdown of operatic proportions. This week's new films 2010-06-25T23:05:00Z Basilio came across as the operatic prototype of a cynical, modern-day political operative whose repertory of dirty tricks has hardly dated. Trump Has Changed a Night at the Opera, Too 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z But her delivery, her stance, her very presence are operatic in the richest sense of the word. Review: That ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Close-Up, Finely Focused 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The company was able to provide some operatic relief in August with scaled-down performances of “Das Rheingold,” directed by its house staff in its parking garage. Full-Scale Wagner Returns to Europe With a Refugee-Theme ‘Walküre’ 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z “It could have been quite embarrassing if the opera had been grandstanding in an emotional, operatic way,” Mr. Pountney said. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z More important, it's the guts and grit of her singing that render her performances so operatic. Karen Mason delivers a pungent show for Valentines 2011-02-11T17:16:49Z Voters don’t trust elected officials, but Hollywood doesn’t trust itself to do politicians justice; screenwriters keep piling operatic misdeeds onto characters whose strength lies in their huge capacity for pettiness. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z Despite the glimpse of familiarity, Gardiner’s view of this Passion, the one that best suits his operatic flair for drama, has sharpened in the 35 years since his first take. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z His influence went far beyond the rock world and crossed the borders into opera and musical theatre, where he eventually worked with the Spanish operatic soprano, Montserrat Caballe, to create the Olympic theme song "Barcelona". Freddie Mercury 30 years on – remembering the theatrical, eccentric genius 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Under these fittingly unconventional circumstances she made her operatic debut. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z Additionally, most of the discussion about race in the operatic world revolves around singers, rather than composers, of color. A Small Step Toward Correcting the Overwhelming Whiteness of Opera 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Later, when the gunfire soundtrack had been replaced by operatic thunder, we explored another Gothic treasure, the Bellapais Abbey, but by now it was teeming with rain. Ruins, casinos and abandoned construction mark Cyprus 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Alec Baldwin notwithstanding, the best way to make fun of a cretin of such operatic magnitude seems to be to present him with a steady naturalism, just as he is. Donald and Melania Trump’s Last Judgment 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z But it’s also Greek in that “Thebans” is an operatic adaptation of the Oedipus myth. Opera Review: A Review of Julian Anderson’s ‘Thebans’ for the English National Opera 2014-05-05T12:53:03Z "Great Scott" will focus on a famous American singer, Arden Scott, who returns to her hometown to star in a forgotten operatic masterpiece. Dallas Opera orders new Heggie-McNally work 2012-01-18T07:01:04Z With power rock chords, crescendoing piano, and operatic heights, "Bat Out of Hell" wasn't like anything anyone had heard before. Meat Loaf taught me it's OK to have big dreams 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z For a long time, I wanted to do a disc of Liszt operatic transcriptions, and I also wanted to explore Thalberg. From a Historic Piano Duel to a Finger-Blurring New Album 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z There were hours of intense rehearsals, during which Dudamel urged the players to embrace Mahler’s operatic impulses and his varied style. Gustavo Dudamel in New York: Selfies, Hugs and Mahler 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z But the finale, where Williams and Raven sing together truly “as one,” is as uplifting as any operatic ending could be. ‘As One’ tells a transgender story with power, passion 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z With this sumptuous support, every voice projected a quality hard to match in any operatic cast in the world. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Tristan und Isolde' presented masterfully as an opera of the mind 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z This operatic version of “Hamlet” takes an unexpected turn before the curtain falls: The protagonist survives and is crowned king. A Decidedly French “Hamlet” Returns to Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z It’s ambitious and operatic, certainly one of the most interesting and potentially promising offerings in a mostly cautious season of new fall shows. Starz?s Politics Drama Boss: Powerful But Messy, Just Like Its Subject 2011-10-21T12:23:02Z For artists who have never before worked for the operatic stage, could this experience give new impulses to their work? Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists’ New Work for the Opera Stage 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z He then stayed on with Mr. Jarboe, Mr. Allen and other members of the production team and cast, to plan the work’s operatic expansion. Composer Joins Warhol Opera Development in Philadelphia 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Morante’s vision is so baroque, and her prose so operatic, that after reading her I needed some alone time, with cucumber slices over my eyelids. An Operatic Italian Classic Gets a Fresh Translation 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z These same qualities were animated in the Mozart, which the orchestra treated as a harbinger of Romanticism with velvety string passages, regal punctuating chords and undercurrents of dark operatic drama. Music Review: Juilliard Chamber Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-11-24T00:17:49Z The operatic Nixon made this case for the first time here at the Civic Theatre on Saturday night as part of the San Diego Opera's 50th-anniversary celebration. San Diego Opera seizes the hour with prophetic 'Nixon in China' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The most naturally operatic character in the play is the eccentric angel who appears to Prior, and Kirsten Chambers digs into her swooping, penetrating pronouncements. Review: ‘Angels in America,’ Carved to the Bone and Into an Opera 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z The operatic museum in which they reside has many rooms, even on the piano nobile that both by right will occupy. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z It’s this otherworldly voice that touches on something almost operatic, something huge and expansive and intimate. To Play Hamlet, Alex Lawther Became an ‘Expert on Grief’ 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The next piece is an operatic adaptation of her play The Garden, a twist on the Adam and Eve story. Zinnie Harris: Next stop Nam 2011-08-09T20:59:01Z “Their lives are the kind of American lives that people don’t have anymore. To me, just on a theatrical level, it seemed operatic: this kind of grand battle.” Buckley vs. Vidal: When Debate Became Bloodsport 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z In addition, the company takes an operatic convention bizarrely too far with its projected titles for not only the songs but also the dialogue. 'Show Boat' keeps rollin' along fine style in San Francisco 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The tune’s inclusion in the 1992 film “Wayne’s World” allowed secret Queen lovers everywhere to start belting out this operatic bombast whenever it came on the car radio. Adam Lambert leads a cross-generational Queen through the hits at Merriweather He added that songs “are entirely within the operatic tradition” and that he used “sustained symphonic music to unify entire scenes.” Critic?s Notebook: Did ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? Meets Its Goal? 2012-01-14T00:31:27Z In the studio itself, bored guys aurally simulate human atrocity by whacking and stabbing vegetables, while female stars give operatic screams in the sound booth. Berberian Sound Studio – review 2012-08-30T14:30:01Z When all the elements are firing together, their collective force is operatic. Dance Review: ?Tool Is Loot,? With Jennifer Lacey and Wally Cardona 2011-09-23T21:43:32Z Other hopefuls this year include Jacques Houdek, known as 'Mr Voice' in Croatia, who blends pop and operatic singing styles in the song "My Friend". Italy, Portugal lead the pack as Kiev hosts Eurovision final 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z So as a child her instinctive desire to sound operatic was curious. A Big Belter Who Found a True Voice 2011-05-13T23:00:44Z But the chortles are our problem, since unchecked operatic sentiments, with texts emphasized projected as subtitles on video monitors, have an inescapable intensity that can generate nervous laughter. Dudamel coaxes a sense of urgency from two of opera's staples 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z At the midway point, Fohr’s operatic voice explodes in all its dark, ululating grandeur. Circuit des Yeux battles through grief to create an artistic triumph 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Long before he raised you up with several albums of operatic pop, Josh Groban had his eye on another career path: musical theater. Watch Josh Groban Tell the Ultimate Dad Joke 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z But with operatic voices in a supposed musical, you’d expect better, richer sound, overall, and a lot of the singers had a terrible time finding the right pitch at the beginning of their numbers. When musicals become operas 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z That is an extremely operatic way to open a movie. From Rosemary's Baby to Suspiria, five directors on cinema's scariest moments 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Attorney thanks to an operatic betrayal, can suddenly relate. Smart Watch: "Billions" makes organized crime on Wall Street and in politics fun to watch 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Verdi’s Shakespeare is so important to Italian operatic culture that it was bold indeed for the Rome Opera to open with Battistelli’s “Julius Caesar.” Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z But often operatic singing is just too vocally heavy and vibrato laden for Broadway and pop fare. music: Ren?e Fleming?s Crossover to Rock, ?Dark Hope? 2010-05-28T14:47:00Z And though his next song "Love Hurts" featured an operatic soul intro — a Lusk trademark — it only highlighted that he didn't fit cleanly into an already popular box. "American Idol" down to four: ranking the field 2011-05-06T17:12:07Z “The Bassarids” is precisely the sort of large-scale operatic spectacle in the grand tradition that would flourish at the Met. Christoph von Dohnanyi Conducts Hans Werner Henze 2012-03-16T16:11:31Z Total obliteration happens on an intimate scale, and the all-encompassing, metaphysical nature of the drama leaves room for gentleness as well as operatic cruelty. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z Budd was inspired by his childhood in the Mojave desert, and echoed that landscape in this song, which sets a soaring, androgynous, operatic voice against delicate harp strings. F&M playlist 2011-03-17T22:15:01Z The program for the concert hasn't been announced but is expected to include famous arias and other operatic favorites. L.A. Opera to present 'Macbeth,' 'Akhnaten' and Leonard Bernstein tribute in 2016-17 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z “She was just such an operatic icon and star that you kind of looked at her in awe.” Voigt shocked paper ran her photo with Freni’s obituary 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z But then his productions are famous for their gentle irony, their ridiculing of theatrical and operatic conventions, and their unheroic protagonists. My fair fräulein: an Eliza Doolittle for the 21st century 2012-08-14T19:00:04Z To compensate for those omissions there is the pleasure of watching Callas and London play cat and mouse during Act II of “Tosca,” a priceless master class in operatic acting. Music: George London Foundation Contest Set for Morgan Library 2012-02-12T15:44:19Z The show is packed with songs whose styles are mixed and matched with formidable agility, going from operatic arias to dance romps to jazzy croons and back again. A Guide to Theater Festivals in New York and the Berkshires 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z She also cultivates 18th- and 19th-century operatic repertoire from Mozart to Meyerbeer, at prominent houses such as Zurich Opera and the Paris Opera. Lea Desandre Gives a Modern Voice to Early Music 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Each year Stanley Hall Opera creates a new operatic production from scratch. Tchaikovsky and tractors 2011-03-24T10:33:02Z The nation’s capital should be a reality-show casting director’s playground: overwhelming power, operatic personalities, nuclear codes floating around town in a black briefcase. Reality TV? Not Really, the Capital Says 2011-01-21T22:24:29Z She’s one of the few operatic actors I know who doesn’t overact. Jamie Barton, Opera’s Nose-Studded Rock Star, Returns to the Met 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z But while that group’s records fuse indie rock with spoken word and operatic flourishes, Ms. Friedberger’s “Last Summer” is a more streamlined pop album. ArtsBeat: Popcast: Beyonc? Grows Up, Half of Fiery Furnaces Gets Nostalgic 2011-07-01T18:00:51Z In the days leading up to the premiere of “Eurydice,” Matthew Aucoin’s operatic adaptation of Sarah Ruhl’s play, the lead soprano couldn’t sing. A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The funny stuff is on screen, rather than truly operatic. L.A. Opera again casts an enchanting spell with its silent-movie-styled ' Magic Flute' 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z It floundered dramatically in Act III, but nothing diminishes the pleasure of hearing Mozart's most inventive operatic score, boisterously played by the English Chamber Orchestra. Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z But Han Solo’s death in The Force Awakens isn’t operatic at all, and I can’t help feeling that this character deserves better. The Problem With That Major Force Awakens Scene 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z A young chef catches her eye and helps her rediscover the woman she used to be, inspiring a climactic departure of operatic proportions. 5 great movies about troubled marriages 2012-08-10T04:16:04Z It’s Bernstein’s contribution to the legacy of operatic mad scenes, and it’s riveting, a 14-minute tour de force for the Celebrant. Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The rest heard a voice that aimed for the operatic but ended up merely shrill. ArtsBeat: CMJ: Alex Winston's Mother Likes What She Sees 2012-10-17T14:31:27Z Promised End, then, promises to be a fitting operatic swansong for Sandy. Alexander Goehr on his new King Lear opera, Promised End 2010-09-23T21:30:00Z There are original manuscripts by Alexandre Dumas and Honore de Balzac, emotional correspondence from Admiral Nelson and Napoleon I, and operatic scores drafted by Richard Strauss, among many others. Marquis de Sade erotic novel, or some quantum theory? You choose 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z The piece is pretty much sung-though in formal operatic style, without any obviously catchy melodies to try and woo the audience. Jeffers opera shows the way forward 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Do you favour the choppy guitar rock of Arctic Monkeys or the operatic grandeur of Muse? Readers' panel: Which band represents the best of British? 2012-09-25T14:05:37Z There are melodies that befit opulent operatic voices, as well as trios and quartets in which individual characters voice their inner thoughts. Music Review: Frank Loesser?s ?Most Happy Fella,? at Dicapo Opera 2012-03-10T00:57:23Z It can be visceral and operatic, beautiful and brutal but also slow and overlong. Review: `Lawless' a visceral, fitful fever dream 2012-08-28T22:50:58Z "We always try to achieve the operatic in our work," he said. ENO joins pioneering theatre company for East End opera 2010-03-31T14:40:00Z But while art used in an operatic production can be exhibited in a gallery, Mr. Audi, the “Parsifal” director, said artists needed to think about both differently. Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists’ New Work for the Opera Stage 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z "I always thought that the play was really an opera but with the music missing," said Previn, who worked with librettist Philip Littell to adapt the Tennessee Williams play for the operatic stage. Andre Previn's 'Streetcar' opera will play L.A., but without him 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Millit, who physically resembles Carol Burnett, is an operatically trained singer, but her shrill, brassy rendition of “My One and Only Love” on Monday evening hammered it with a brickbat. Music Review: Songs in Several Languages, Wisecracks Spread Throughout 2011-01-18T23:45:40Z Still, his stepping down is a big moment — another major changing of the American operatic guard this year, following James Levine’s retirement as the music director of the Metropolitan Opera. David Gockley, Opera Impresario, Hangs Up His Cloak 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Those performances at Covent Garden, which Benjamin himself will conduct, could be an operatic revelation. A guide to George Benjamin's music 2013-02-25T12:41:11Z Having reinvented himself as a baritone, Mr. Domingo seems not at all done with a second act that has extended his career as a leading man probably beyond any in operatic history. Review: Plácido Domingo Reaches 50 Years at the Met Opera 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z She turned out to be Christiane Karg, a German operatic soprano, who had sung the Brahms Requiem at Royal Festival Hall the evening before. A ‘Girl Singer’ and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Now and then, when the going gets emotionally tough, Frida and even the less reflective Diego will have a very brief go at a fulsome operatic phrase, but the beat picks up in no time. Death haunts Frida Kahlo's long and clumsily winding road to the lyric stage 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z "Finding subjects is always difficult, but her life was undoubtedly very operatic." Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z It is also because her debut fell between the historic advent of Ms. Anderson and the blazing ascendance of Leontyne Price, widely considered the first black operatic superstar, who made her Met debut in 1961. Mattiwilda Dobbs, Soprano and Principal at Met, Dies at 90 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Though rarely heard, Our Hunting Fathers is one of Britten's most astonishingly precocious works, and Bell made the most of its latent operatic intensity. Hallé/Elder – review 2013-06-25T16:29:36Z This venture follows upon National Sawdust’s inventive operatic presentation “Orphic Moments” last year, featuring a triumphant Mr. Costanzo. Anthony Roth Costanzo in a Handel Rarity at National Sawdust 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Figgis, though, has more musical credentials than any of Berry's previous operatic ingenues. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z Next course, correspondence: Your e-mail message was a tad operatic. Social Q?s: Social Q's-The World Is Your Oyster. No, It?s Mine. 2010-03-19T00:07:00Z You hope they will bring something from these adventurous and intense operatic experiments back home. In Europe, Opera Takes On Our Time 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Trying something difficult, Dett blended spirituals, elements of folk music, late Romantic richness and stretches of operatically charged writing for four vocal soloists. Critic’s Notebook: The Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra Plays at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-11T21:00:39Z There were a number of reasons for this, but the main one was that “Ghosts” proved an extraordinary operatic entertainment. Critic's Pick: 'Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Since Die Walküre is of Wagnerian length, the dramatic prologue and operatic performance will be split over two evenings. Manchester international festival lines up play on life of Marina Abramovic 2010-09-30T23:33:00Z Broadway has also served as an incubator for operatic talent. Opinion | Opera and Broadway have a fruitful relationship. If only opera fans understood it. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z As a result, we never feel sufficiently compelled by her; it’s a reminder that the emotional impact of operatic characters emerges from singers’ vocal presences. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z An over-the-top satire of operatic quest narratives and would-be coups d’état, Prokofiev’s opera shoots ripe parodies of Romanticism through with sardonic punchiness and zany chaos. A Festival Adds to Opera’s Soaring Body Count 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z They and Mr. Brownlee are unlikely candidates for stardom in this most refined of operatic styles. Critic’s Notebook: Opera Stars and the Revival of Bel Canto 2014-05-04T21:52:06Z Unlike those in Ride the Pink Horse or Gun Crazy, the long take here is almost operatic in its certainty. 'A pas de deux of sex and violence': a poet's guide to film noir 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z But he also lived in an era when operatic managements had fearsome control over content, and was forced to make changes to Camacho before its 1827 premiere. Die Hochzeit des?Camacho ? review 2011-04-13T18:01:01Z But with today’s operatic ecosystem fragile, even strong-willed impresarios are loath to antagonize the few remaining major stars. Jonas Kaufmann: A Tenor in Demand, Now in Short Supply 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z There is treachery, but it’s mainly suburban and small rather than grandly operatic. How similar to real life politics is House of Cards? 2013-07-04T02:13:44Z Though Buxton isn't just about opera, it's the festival's regular explorations around the edges of the familiar operatic repertoire that gives the real character to the three-week-long programme. This week's new live music 2011-07-08T23:07:53Z If Tobias Picker’s operatic adaptation of the novel is going to feel urgent and relevant anywhere, it’s here, on the tale’s native soil. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z There is a refreshing lack of pretension to the Artemis's playing, where a beguiling sweetness of tone is combined with cool-headed judgment that refuses to over-indulge the composer's taste for operatic gesture. Artemis Quartet - review 2011-01-23T18:18:53Z Ms. Wolfe draws on variations in the legend for her lyrics, striking in simplicity and similar to the repetitive murmurings in the operatic works of Philip Glass. Review: In ‘Steel Hammer,’ a Man and a Train in a Race and a Legend 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Grunge bands used to perform on the same stage where Julia Child is now operatically baking cake. An operetta about Julia Child, with servings of chocolate cake at the end? It’s happening at The Rendezvous | Art Outings 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Too pure to seem tawdry, their affair has an undercurrent of myth and mock operatic grandeur. Welcome to His World: Bela Tarr’s First Meteorological Event 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z For the overwhelming majority of the paying operatic public, Thicknesse's caricature of "considerable sections of the audience" as "socially ambitious" and "conspicuous spenders" is grotesque and even offensive. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z Ariana's emotional finale confrontation was particularly, well, operatic, as she reduced Sandoval to a pile of rubble: The heart of Schwartzness: The roots of the "Vanderpump Rules" Scandoval implosion run deep 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Dante’s Unearthly Story Updated for the Stage “La Commedia,” ’s operatic dissection and reconstruction of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” is the centerpiece of a series of concerts devoted to the composer at this month and next. Music Review: Louis Andriessen?s ?Commedia? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-16T22:59:00Z As long ago as the 1970s, the company recognized the perils of unregulated operatic growth and proposed creating a Mini Met. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The Mozart, lighthearted and, at times, operatic, reveled in transparency. A piano recital highlighting the poetic chops of pianist Jonathan Biss 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Within minutes of Maurizio's proposal, in the best operatic tradition, she lies dying, slain by a jealous rival whose choice of murder weapon – poisoned violets – has to be among the strangest ever devised. Adriana Lecouvreur; Tansy Davies ? review 2010-11-21T00:09:00Z His verismo operatic adaptation of Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge,” from 1999, was prominently documented on a New World Records album from Chicago’s Lyric Opera. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z “M. Butterfly,” the play, always had ambiguity and illusion at its core, and this operatic version tries to break down binaries still further, especially through Song’s character. Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ Metamorphoses Again, as an Opera 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z By the time she delivers a fine, tensely eerie mad scene, the stakes of the drama — that queasy, distinctively operatic blend of empathy for and exhilaration over the heroine’s degradation — are almost entirely forfeit. Music Review: Dessay Is Pale in ?Lucia di Lammermoor? 2011-02-25T08:38:16Z I love the fact that I can create these operatic sets but also abide by things you can find in a B-movie. As Gronk's set designs go on view at CAFAM, the artist talks opera, painting and B-movie crab monsters 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z In this work he tries to transcend the typical constraints of operatic storytelling. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z Even more than those solo numbers, though, it's the ensemble music in Figaro that creates a new kind of operatic discourse. The Marriage of Figaro - a musical guide 2012-08-14T13:56:24Z There is an operatic neediness to Arquette’s obsession that suits the circus of wrestling, and it suits the documentary too. ‘You Cannot Kill David Arquette’ Review: Ready to Rumble (Again)? 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z This isn’t the first operatic adaptation of Powers’s fiction. Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Though she sang with a voice operatic, She ate marshmallows like a fanatic. Style Invitational Week 1448: Hear, hear, it’s Limerixicon XVIII 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z This modest production presents a vivid new spin on operatic performance. Review: ‘Orphic Moments,’ With Feast, at National Sawdust 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z “Vinyl” is a loud show, full of blaring music and operatic emotions. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 2: Mugged by God 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z No Proms season would be complete without its centenaries too – Wagner, 200 years old this year, is being sumptuously served this summer but Verdi, his fellow operatic bicentenarian gets unaccountably shorter shrift. First night of the Proms 2013-07-13T00:25:10Z The inky and operatic Zola Jesus hits Warsaw on Sunday night. What to Do This Weekend 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z It seems peculiar that there are no mentions of the operatic singing requirements attached to this role. Lauren Ambrose Finally Gets Her Musical 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z "I was missing music, really missing having music with me on a daily basis," said the engineer, who plans to perform several operatic pieces, including an aria from Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." Whistlers pucker up and blow into Carolina town 2012-04-19T06:53:09Z This romantic love theme is accompanied by the highly dramatic or operatic one of a scheme to lure the aloof, self-doubting Jean back to the stage and thus provide a major attraction for the gala. Quartet – review 2013-01-06T00:08:41Z We see Holiday as a heroin user, a devoted but not always reliable friend, an operatic figure of towering pain and sublime resilience. ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Review: Singing for Her Life 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z "Attila" never fell entirely out of the active operatic repertory, but it has been something of a rarity, especially in this country. Seattle Opera's 'Attila' a timely tale of warfare 2012-01-04T23:09:03Z As a whole, the performance showed the power of Yende’s gorgeous voice in dramatic operatic style. Buzzed-about South African soprano Pretty Yende at the Kennedy Center The operatic centerpiece, typically an obscurity, was Steffani’s “Niobe, Regina di Tebe,” and the recitals, chamber concerts and vocal programs tended to explore composers and works that were new even to the most devoted enthusiasts. Critic?s Notebook: A Festival Brings the Obscure to the Fore, With a Global Touch 2011-06-20T21:59:21Z Even in the blazing episodes of the “Dies irae,” with pounding bass drum, vehement brass and frenzied runs in strings, he had the music sounding more grave and biblical, less operatically dramatic. Review: For 9/11 Tribute, the Met Opera Returns Home 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z But Rimsky-Korsakov’s romance “Summer Night’s Dream,” the work that followed on the program, in which a woman tells of the wondrous young man who visited her in a dream, is hardly less operatic. Anna Netrebko Summons the Intensity of Russian Romances 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z In his only TV interview during rehearsals, the 73 year old admitted he would not be leaving the musical arena when his operatic career ends. Placido Domingo's retirement plan 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Graham found a useful middle ground between her opulent operatic mezzo and something more straightforward. Salonen and Philharmonic see America anew 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Louis C. K. is also a master of the operatic revenge fantasy, a comedic Quentin Tarantino. Critic?s Notebook: Louis C. K.?s Working-Class Roots and Success 2011-12-20T04:33:59Z Scott and his collaborators decided to go for operatic artificiality to tell the story of how the “family” dropped out of this family business. New this week: ‘Pam & Tommy,’ Olympics and the doc ‘Torn’ 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Right there and then, the operatic art form welcomed me in. Critics Pick Recordings to Celebrate Verdi’s Bicentennial 2013-12-26T22:00:58Z Mostly hewing to that plot, the operatic version arrives at an unsettling time, given the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. Review: ‘Bel Canto’ Opera Arrives at an Unsettling Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The staging of modern musicals alongside its operatic repertoire is intended to generate extra revenue for the ENO and help secure its financial future. Thompson 'wept' over stage return 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z A Crusade of Seduction and Sorcery Renée Fleming has always made very particular and personal choices of operatic roles. Music Review: Rossini?s ?Armida? Has Its Premiere at the Met 2010-04-13T20:20:00Z Adès said he started out by looking for a classic operatic plot: “someone in a grand position, who’s outwardly very strong and impressive, who is dismantled and brought low by forces from the outside.” A Duchess Brought Low by ‘A Very British Scandal’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The vocal vocabulary she deploys here ranges from jazz-baby brass to operatic silver, often in a single number, and she switches among them with jaw-dropping ease. Review: ‘On the Twentieth Century,’ With Kristin Chenoweth, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Renaming it “Falstaff” and infusing it with warmth, the collaborators transformed it into one of the greatest operatic comedies. Music Review: Finding High Spirits in Shakespeare 2011-05-09T21:42:29Z There’s also something operatic and sublime about it: It’s impossible to see all of it at once, and it is more felt than viewed. How white tables set with black vases serve as a reminder of the struggle for civil rights 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The composer Tod Machover sensed this operatic potential as soon as he read it and was especially drawn to its relevance. Translating the Music of Trees Into the Sounds of Opera 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z In 2007, as Zambello was directing “The Little Mermaid” on Broadway for Disney, the New Yorker magazine described her as “best known for psychologically probing interpretations of the operatic repertoire.” Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Though hip-hop and dancehall are the go-to soundtrack, the Veterans began their set to an operatic tune about public transportation, “Rapid Transit,” sung by Daniel Neer and Eleanor Taylor of Two Sides Sounding. Brukup From the Bed-Stuy Veterans at BEAT Festival 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z To be clear, last year’s Venice Film Festival promised journalists more than just the world premiere of that Todd Phillips supervillain origin story, then only an operatically pitched trailer. When a Film Festival Goes Virtual, What Do We Lose? Or Gain? 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z She dies operatically on stage in front of the hometown folks who had scorned her back when. Five music business tales told onstage, at the movies, or both 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z But by midcentury, operatic orchestral music had increased in density and complexity, and had begun to develop into a character in its own right. Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z The Pulitzer jury described the piece as “a bold operatic work that integrates vocal and instrumental elements and a wide range of styles into a harrowing allegory for human trafficking in the modern world.” Lynn Nottage on her Pulitzer win for drama: 'I’m representing for women' 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z “Succession,” HBO’s operatic saga about a media dynasty and a two-time best drama winner, scored 27 Emmy nominations for its farewell season on Wednesday morning, the biggest haul of any series. ‘Succession’ propels HBO to huge haul of nominations. 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z They seem tragic and absurd, like nearly everything else that happens in this movie, which is often elusive in its meanings and operatic in its effects. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z The mainstream picture of what that looks like has been locked down by RuPaul Charles, a performer who's constantly shifting between men's suits and operatic arias shaped into floor-length couture gowns. All hail Uncle Clifford on "P-Valley," a vision of Black queerness not seen anywhere else on TV 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z In some ways the brightest star was Viktor Ullmann, whose searing operatic Hitler satire, “The Emperor of Atlantis,” is staged somewhere every few seasons. Music Review: ?The Music of Terezin? at 92nd Street Y 2012-01-20T23:54:05Z While at one point the authors ask what an alternative would be “to this preservationist tendency, to the beginnings of the operatic museum,” it turns out that the question is wholly rhetorical. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z There was something of an operatic aria structure to it, a few words sustained across a whole lot of notes. The heart of Schwartzness: The roots of the "Vanderpump Rules" Scandoval implosion run deep 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z But Bryars' music offers an ineffable atmosphere and mood so rich that this becomes the first operatic score to give Marilyn the room she always wanted in life, simply to be Marilyn. In 'Marilyn Forever,' Monroe yearns to be merely herself 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Rather then pursue an operatic career, she preferred popular music, a genre that brought her wide popularity in Poland - where the family returned in 1948 - and abroad. Poland's Villas, Las Vegas star in 1960s, dies 2011-12-06T12:16:04Z Malo brings operatic drama to a voice that can soar with power or caress with romanticism. Review: The Mavericks gallop back onto the scene 2013-02-25T14:39:08Z There are “too few operatic characters in the world. I think of him as a toon,” she writes. Maureen Dowd’s Latest Book on Everything Hillary and Donald 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z This operatically violent tale about the Camorra, a Neapolitan crime organization, is Italy’s most popular TV series, and it begins a second season with the Savastano family’s reign’s having seemingly come to an end. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘Gomorrah’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Dance and music were much more closely integrated in opéra-ballets than in other operatic works. Les Arts Florissants Bring Opéra-Ballet Back to Life 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Instead, it now uses its outdoor performances to showcase young singers in recitals of operatic bonbons, accompanied only by a piano. Music Review: Opera Singers Bring Theatricality to SummerStage 2013-07-17T20:22:28Z A new production will be one of the operatic offerings at this summer’s prestigious Salzburg Festival, starring Cecilia Bartoli as Maria. Gustavo Dudamel's Hollywood Bowl 'West Side Story' is a story for right now 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z A duet, another standard operatic form, later had a similar power. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z Her switch into an operatic style for her high notes felt prim, an imperfect melding of different vocal techniques. Review: A Singer Brings Her Splendid Sound to an Eclectic Recital 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z “The Tempest” is Mr. Spence’s first operatic performance since he received a diagnosis of thyroid cancer last December and underwent delicate throat surgery. Music Review: Toby Spence Sings Beethoven and Mahler at the Frick 2012-11-14T22:29:42Z It is the work's most operatic moment, a sort of mad scene, played in darkness. An opera for my resistance fighter aunt 2012-11-21T19:07:19Z Eerily augmenting an operatic excerpt in “Bye Bye Butterfly” in 1965, she challenged not just traditional notions of musical beauty, but also traditional gender dynamics. An Unfinished ‘Phantom Opera’ Is Completed With Love 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Set for voice and string quartet, the work compresses a tragic life of operatic dimensions into a song cycle of great beauty and emotional resonance. Joyce DiDonato Celebrates Camille Claudel at Zankel Hall 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Mr Piano is courtly when he needs to be gutsy, even operatic. Don’t be aloof 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z That seems a little dangerous to me, like operatic global warming. Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov raise roof in power operatic performance at the Broad Stage 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z An evolution Petipa himself ignited, by blowing it up to operatic proportions, not only with occasional live animals, but also with extended sequences for the corps de ballet and soloists as well as the stars. Camels, monkeys and lions at the ballet: Marius Petipa was just getting started 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z The Gheorghiu-Alagna marriage, meanwhile, was played out in public as a grand operatic spectacle that rivalled any of the works in which they regularly appeared together. Angela Gheorghiu's serious claims might not be taken seriously 2013-07-03T17:00:00Z The story of an operatic triumph is the story of a thousand small challenges and compromises. Anna Netrebko Prepares to Star in ?Anna Bolena? at the Met 2011-09-25T03:00:06Z Cairns’ production is the one weak point, replacing Buñuel’s surreal elegance with what comes across as an operatic “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Notice the part where Hutton goes into operatic mode and gives a little surprised smile of delight. Deborah Voigt, Meet Ethel Merman 2010-07-22T19:27:00Z If regular old Hollywood melodrama, rendering bourgeois passions operatic, provokes chuckles even among its devotees, Bergman’s infusion of middle-class anguish with metaphysical heights and existential depths risks unleashing a laugh riot. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Humperdinck worked with Richard Wagner, the master of German operatic folklore, and his music, is Wagnerian - rich, lyrical and vaguely reminiscent of some of the German master's early works. Witch burns, audience on fire at Vienna opera show 2012-12-23T23:01:04Z But artists and listeners carry assumptions and prejudices about what singing in a certain language signifies: singing in French sounds romantic, German industrial, Italian operatic, and so on. Readers recommend: foreign language versions ? the results 2011-03-10T17:26:30Z Short-form chamber opera appears to be the wave of the operatic future. Opera as bourgeois drama: 20-minute pieces at WNO 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The Long Beach cast was largely on the operatic side. Long Beach Opera puts its own spin on 'Thérèse Raquin' 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s a cycle, operatic in scope, with movements of resistance, oppression, protest, family and celebration. In McQueen’s ‘Small Axe,’ an epic of West Indian heritage 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z That belting quality so identified with Merman, Ms. Voigt said, can actually cause technical trouble for a soprano who plans on returning to operatic roles. Deborah Voigt to Play ?Annie Get Your Gun? Lead 2010-07-22T21:29:00Z Mr. Labadie used the traditional quartet of soloists, who shared an intensely dramatic, often operatic approach to their texts. Music Review: ?Messiah? Season, in All of Its Hues 2010-12-16T16:27:17Z After eight searching, varied songs, it culminates with the operatic, dystopian "Five Little Rooms" and its warmer, anthemic counterpart, "Sleeping Beauty" — the light at the end of Menomena's bipolar tunnel. CD review: Menomena's 'Mines' unearths unpredictable sounds 2010-07-26T22:56:00Z Only “My Song 5” evinces a personality -- a collage of elephant noises, spastic beats and operatic bombast. Haim, 'Days are Gone' review 2013-10-03T15:40:00Z The operatic tinge in Mr. Kaufmann’s singing lends dramatic emphasis to the music. Jonas Kaufmann, Scaling Wagnerian Mountaintops 2010-06-04T15:14:00Z Musical theatre suffers from the fundamental structural problem of why the characters have suddenly started singing, which is why so many shows – including Les Misérables – adopt the operatic convention of having everything sung. Theatre about theatre shows there's no business like show business 2013-03-08T09:30:01Z The work, on that day, seemed to be taking its place in an operatic canon full of contradictory, discomfiting, occasionally offensive works that time and again nevertheless demonstrate their relevance and power. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Or an operatic highlight reel wedged into a freewheeling stage revue. Review: Sounds and Styles Playfully Collide in ‘Only an Octave Apart’ 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z In the finale, Kalmar’s highly individual phrasing of the low-strings recitatives that “reject” earlier themes to prepare for the arrival of the famous “Ode to Joy” tune was vividly and aptly operatic. Carlos Kalmar leads SSO in fresh take on Beethoven 2013-12-29T19:43:19Z It is true that Mozart’s operatic career was largely defined by his ability to choose his own librettos. Mozart’s Opera ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z So much for lending new terror to the operatic curse. Music Review: An Unsteady ‘Rigoletto’ Rat Pack 2013-01-29T13:33:55Z Few performers looked at home onstage, and many went in for outsized operatic emotion rather than the intimacy of song. L.A. composers, singers take center stage at SongFest 2015 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Does lacking operatic experience matter in landing an important opera post? Gustavo Dudamel Hasn’t Conducted Much Opera. That’s OK. 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z At any rate, On the Waterfront is an operatic masterpiece. What is the best Oscar-winning film of all time? 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z So operatic adaptations of his plays have been rare. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z “She’s taken that big, operatic sweep of love and all the tragedies that go with it and in the process has referenced artists like Roy Lichtenstein,” Ms. Kazanjian said. Inside Art: Cindy Sherman?s Guises All in a Single Place 2011-02-17T21:45:07Z Puccini's operatic take on the wild west has never made it into the standard repertoire, although the Royal dusts off its venerable 1970s production every few years. La Fanciulla del West 2010-08-25T21:15:00Z “He’s a regular person, not a caricature of a fashion designer,” Ms. Altuzarra said, hence not given to sulks or operatic outbursts. New York Fashion Week: Another Season, Another Show 2011-02-10T00:06:03Z In the concluding Libera me, Ms. Meade’s voice soared commandingly over the orchestra and chorus — an operatic feat, undoubtedly, and a magnificent one. New York Philharmonic Performs Verdi’s Requiem 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z His last new work there suggests a certain affinity with his future operatic home: It is a two-act version of “An American Soldier,” about Pvt. Washington’s Opera Taps a Champion of New Work From St. Louis 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z What I like about Hamilton is that there is nothing operatic about her Hedda: if she is a destroyer, it is because she is a mix of disappointed idealist and control freak. Hedda Gabler – review 2012-07-11T16:33:08Z Their most recent collaboration, “Only the Sound Remains,” an operatic reinterpretation of Pound’s translation of two Noh plays, arrives for its American premiere in Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, on Nov. 17 and 18. Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z He is, moreover, a master of operatic argument, which is the traditional term for plot in not just its narrative sense but also its moral, spiritual, political and temporal implications. Why Andriessen's daring and difficult 'Theatre of the World' will stand the test of time 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Given his operatic form so far, this composer's ideas grow larger and more intriguing with each endeavour. Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Written on Skin – review 2013-03-17T00:06:26Z It is Gotham Chamber Opera, which, now in its 12th season, is making the leap from operatic start-up to standby, and is exploring what the demise of City Opera might mean for its future. Gotham Chamber Opera Has Rare Works and Many Venues 2013-12-24T21:40:58Z Photograph: AFP/Getty Images The most performed operatic composer around the world was born 200 years ago this year. Maestro Verdi, your Art must not die 2013-05-03T16:00:01Z In one unforgettable commercial, she belted the Chock full o’Nuts coffee jingle in full operatic attire — and full-on operatic vocal power. Roberta Peters, reigning soprano of Metropolitan Opera and on TV, dies at 86 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z In one production called "The Infernal Comedy," Malkovich played a contemporary serial killer whose exploits are told through a series of operatic arias by famous composers. John Malkovich goes eccentric in 'Casanova Variations,' photo exhibit 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z His masterly command of the expressive possibilities of the instrument was allied with imaginative interpretive liberties and an operatic sense of timing and drama. Mozart and C.P.E. Bach in a dazzling fortepiano performance 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z “Dreamer” is no different — an alluring, dreamlike, lightly funky and lightly shimmering ode to spiritual seeking that comes with another of the group’s signature operatic videos that interrogate masculinity, community, isolation and love. Bruce Springsteen’s Exuberant Soul Cover, and 10 More New Songs 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z And Cabell credited the company with finding a way to forge ahead with an operatic work of “cultural significance.” A Black Composer’s Intense Opera Gets a Rare Staging 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Even as she has stepped away from some of her best-known operatic roles, she has remained active in concert halls and on stages around the world. Renée Fleming to Lead Opera at Aspen 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z There is ample operatic precedent for an innocent young woman guided blindly by her lover into a world of violence and deception: Think of Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” and Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande.” Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z But now, with the Gaillard being substantially rebuilt, it seemed fitting to repeat history and again open the building — operatically, at least — with “Porgy.” ‘Porgy and Bess,’ a Spoleto Festival USA Homecoming 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z Caballe, famed for her powerful, soaring voice, enjoyed an international career spanning nearly six decades and was known not only for her great operatic performances. Mourners bid farewell to legendary Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z There are original manuscripts by Alexandre Dumas and Honore de Balzac, emotional correspondence from Admiral Nelson and Napoleon I, and operatic scores drafted by Richard Strauss, among many others. Marquis de Sade erotic novel, or some quantum theory? You choose 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Grigolo's voice was a bit boomy at the start of "Maria" from Bernstein's "West Side Story," which he sang with just the right amount of operatic weight. Grigolo and Gheorghiu give the Broad Stage its wake-up call 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Opera, Long Beach Opera and Sharon’s own company, the Industry, are actively attempting to keep in operatic touch with the times. L.A. versus Berlin: Which is king of the classical world? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The long neglect of “Ghosts,” gradually being redressed, is one of the great indictments of the American operatic scene. An opera revisited, on a new scale 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z There's a wonderful poetic justice in this all happening for a production of the ultimate operatic statement of the high-maintenance drama-queen diva soprano. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Specifically, he was the master of nineteen-fifties melodrama—of the operatic representations of domestic passions in a decade that had shaken off the weeds of war and was enjoying a robust expansion. Jacob Lawrence, Audra McDonald, and Rockaway Taco 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z What is striking, given the drastic cuts, is how much of what has obsessed the readers and audiences of “Hamlet” over the past several hundred years powerfully resonates in this operatic reimagining. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z More traditional, if modernist, operatic singing emerges, gloriously, in the fourth act; heavy electronics dominate stretches of the fifth. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z In the closing sections, when Apter and Gladman finally meet, the author achieves a sustained, operatic balance of comedy, grief and despair that is worth the wait. Heard the One About the Hole That Swallowed Part of Chicago? 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Even so, I had no use for the standard operatic canon. Critics Pick Recordings to Celebrate Verdi’s Bicentennial 2013-12-26T22:00:58Z Yes, it’s based on the true story of a murderer on death row and a nun’s fight to save his life, but it’s steeped in operatic tradition. ‘Dead Man Walking’ is a new opera for old audiences 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Martens sings and acts as though she’s pulling the earth through her feet; she dispensed with operatic artificiality to bring a realism that seemed out of place in the form, given its grandness. Theatre, Film, and Culture of 2014 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z In the restrained, lyrical slow movement, Ax proved sensitive to Mozart’s evocations of his operatic aria style. Review: An Ambitious Project Returns at the Philharmonic 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z But here the question, set to longing sighs in the orchestra, immediately evokes another complicated 19th-century operatic romance: Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” A King Arthur Rarity Is an Apt Way to Return to the Opera 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z "I suppose Angels does have a kind of large-scale operatic dimension to it," he tells me now, speaking from New York. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z In the storm of agitation, the rhetoric of both the movie's defenders and its detractors ascended to operatic heights. Dead Sex Kittens: Farewell to Three Icons of Movie Eroticism 2011-02-10T08:10:00Z She possessed operatic range, which she deployed not to achieve a common standard of virtuosic beauty but to explore the limits of what a human voice could do—or imagine. Diamanda Galás, Lounge Singer in a World on Fire 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z There is certainly one school of thought that has it that contemporary relevance is diametrically opposed to the things that we love about the canonical operatic and symphonic repertory. Urban Arias’ ‘Bastianello’ and ‘Lucrezia’ are at once timeless and anachronistic Elsewhere operatic quartet Il Divo will receive a special award for artist of the decade. Classic Brits 'may honour shows' 2011-05-12T11:02:19Z As Mr. Botstein put the question in the interview: “Can you sustain dramatic tension with music that is not traditionally operatically written?” An Opera Known for Obscurity, Plucked From the Shadows 2013-07-19T18:31:28Z Carney was dramatic, almost operatic, and filled the small and acoustically lively room with waves of big statements. A delicious and bite-size program of two piano quartets 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z The result achieves, with style and wit, what the “Trovatore” aims for in vain, sending a breath of fresh air through the operatic museum. ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Fierrabras’ at Salzburg Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z It was the operatic version of the Chinese costume melodramas so loved by television audiences. Arts Playground Sprouts in China 2010-08-03T14:27:00Z Onstage, prowling runways that projected him into the audience, he would build a tune to operatic grandeur, then tear it apart with a sobbing coda. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z In a second, tremendous picture, Domingo sits in operatic darkness; his eyes, with a tragic gleam, are the subject. Julian Schnabel's Polaroids 2010-10-09T23:05:00Z It will be the first operatic performance in the house since the pandemic shutdown 18 months ago. Met season to open with first-ever opera by Black composer 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Midgette: Well, I may have a higher tolerance for "Macbeth" adaptations, since at this point in my life, I've been to Verdi's operatic version more than Shakespeare's original drama. Review | Two critics debate a rare rehashing of a revised ‘Macbeth,’ singing witches and all 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The show bypassed the kitchen-sink realism of “Hill Street Blues” and the operatic fatalism of “Homicide: Life on the Street.” Television: How ?Law & Order? Helped New York Tourism 2010-05-28T19:57:00Z She was surprised at the influences she recognized in her music: Britten, Mussorgsky, Ravel and Ives, among others — notable fare for a mezzo who has sung few of those composers on the operatic stage. Mezzo Dolora Zajick possesses enthusiasm as big as her voice 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z But in Luger’s hands, the sound has become even more grandiose, almost operatic. Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This 2011-11-04T17:42:52Z No one will ever mistake operatic recitative for actual conversation, no matter what names and costumes the singers bear. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z The operatic setting, in two acts, highlights all the finagling and petty jealousies in the story but seems unable to get at the deep underlying emotions. Music Review: ‘Doubt,’ Adaptation Performed by Minnesota Opera 2013-02-03T23:24:03Z It would be fascinating to see a performance of Sardou’s play “La Tosca” followed by a production of Puccini’s enduring operatic adaptation. Two-Course Feast of Stage and Song 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z His rusty, middle-aged pipes didn't reach their formerly hysterical, nearly operatic glory, but he acknowledged as much in his post-performance interview with Kimmel. Concert preview: Public Image Limited at the Showbox 04/20/10 2010-04-14T00:01:00Z The operatic repertory has been a glory of Welser-Möst’s tenure here. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z It was someone’s birthday; he was serenaded with operatic voices. ?Atys,? French Baroque Opera by Lully, at BAM 2011-09-09T14:40:53Z The rapid demise of Gotham was stunning — the operatic equivalent of the sudden death of an outwardly healthy person. Gotham Chamber Opera Announces That It Will Close 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z “Harmonium” proved the unexpected and spectacular forerunner of what would become his continued pioneering orchestral and operatic work. From John Adams to Mozart: Dudamel's powerful pairing at the Bowl 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Fleming, in full operatic volume, and the Emersons did so with a depth charge of emotion. Renée Fleming and Emerson String Quartet bring some obscure music to light at Disney Hall 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z At City Ballet, most ludicrous of all, he is an old-style operatic devil in a cloak lined with flaming orange. Critic?s Notebook: One Classic Ballet, Many Interpretations 2011-07-05T00:25:11Z And when he spoke, at high speed, about the intricacies of producing operatic sound, it was impossible to begrudge him his youthful confidence — he was so winningly immersed in his craft. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z It's not clear what this operatic quality is meant to tap into in Shaw's play. Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z The night doesn’t begin to end until someone starts pouring tequila, plays this song, and belts out a grito in their best Chente voice — operatic and soaring with a tinge of melancholy. Vicente Fernández, the King of Machos and Heartbreak 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z By crosscutting a crime of passion with a street singer’s performance, Renoir elevates tawdry melodrama to something operatic. ‘La Chienne’ and ‘A Married Woman’: The Better Half, in Dark Strokes 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The piece is ill served if operatic voices milk the melodies at the expense of the text. Music Review: Frank Loesser?s ?Most Happy Fella,? at Dicapo Opera 2012-03-10T00:57:23Z In an operatic era allegedly fixated on Puccini, it’s odd that companies don’t mine Massenet’s scores more: “Manon” and “Werther” are staples, but the other works, though once wildly popular, are today only infrequently performed. The sorely neglected opera that, performed like WCO did, could make opera a hit 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z “How my intestines are undulating,” he bellyaches with operatic formality. Classic antics of ‘Laugh’ an uphill climb in Beth Henley’s latest 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z The work’s operatic character is evident in the dramatic chords that begin the opening Largo and in the dialogue that unfolds afterward, with both instruments equal partners throughout the sonata. Music Review: Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-25T23:15:11Z So “Carmen” represents the one piece of well-known “operatic” territory to, I’d wager, a good portion of the people who were in attendance Saturday, and who applauded warmly, and not wrongly, when it was done. WNO’s ‘Carmen’: Enlivening the familiar 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z It is in the same theater, tells the same operatically tragic story, and again features a hovering helicopter. The Battle of ‘Miss Saigon’: Yellowface, Art and Opportunity 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z “Who knows? Saturday could turn out to be a night in Covent Garden’s history where a new operatic star just might have been born.” Ekaterina Bakanova, an Opera Sensation Also Touched by Luck 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z It's a great, operatic scene, no matter that it's wildly fanciful – this is Nicholas Ray, and no LA beach was a dumping ground for wrecked cars. Corey Allen: Buzz's second sad send-off 2010-07-01T16:57:00Z He also ingeniously transcribed operatic and symphonic works for piano. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: At Carnegie Hall, Composer Is Keyboard Virtuoso Too 2010-03-29T04:58:00Z Mr. Adès, working with the librettist Meredith Oakes, tweaked and altered the story to his own operatic purposes. New Operas at the Met Prove to Be Rare Breed 2012-09-09T04:55:01Z The Firework-Maker's Daughter Touring until 1 June Now David Bruce and Glyn Maxwell, composer and librettist, have realised the book's operatic potential in a captivating chamber piece for five singers, two puppeteers and small ensemble. The Firework-Maker's Daughter; Hallé Orchestra/Elder; Cheryomushki – review 2013-03-31T00:07:03Z “A Quiet Place” was his submission to the operatic canon. Cuts, Big and Small, Transform Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z But “Milky White Way” not only shows off his operatic suavity; it also lets out the shouter within him. Little Richard: An Ecstasy You Couldn’t Refuse 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z She made her operatic debut in 1959, as Adalgisa in Bellini’s “Norma” with the Arkansas State Opera and later studied with the distinguished soprano Rosa Ponselle. Lili Chookasian, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 2012-04-12T17:31:06Z Discharged from the army, Wolfgang served his operatic apprenticeship in Bayreuth and at the Berlin Staatsoper – getting the chance also, as did Wieland, to mount operas by their father Siegfried in regional houses. Wolfgang Wagner obituary 2010-03-22T14:24:00Z It’s such an operatic fantasia, and the big burst of color I needed to get my creativity and productivity back. John Paul Brammer Is Obsessed With Kate Bush 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z It’s an exciting, operatic crime drama centered on a Naples boss whose pride and megalomania put him at odds with everyone, including his own son. 7 Shows for President Trump to Watch on His Vacation 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Sullivan’s characteristic alter ego has been a zany glamour girl with a light operatic voice. Review: ‘Another Hundred People’ Digs Into Stephen Sondheim’s Catalog 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z “The world might not see it. But the operatic world is really breaking this wall, and we have to thank the opera houses and casting directors.” ‘I Could Barely Sing a High C’: Pretty Yende Finally Conquers Lucia 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z He may have thought he had created an operatic bouillabaisse hot with eastern delight and heady religiosity, spiced up with a love triangle and good tunes. The Pearl Fishers, Le Nozze de Figaro 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Everything comes back around, and there’s this intersecting of story lines and an operatic element. Another Period Shows How Historical Millionaires Were Just Like Reality Stars 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z After all, the first professional operatic performances in English were given in a room in the private Smithfield home of the impresario Sir William Davenant, not in a dedicated opera space. Small pub, big opera 2010-10-18T15:01:00Z This fascinating artist, who made a rare American appearance in a recital at Alice Tully Hall in April, limits her operatic performances in Europe as well. Music Review: ‘Les Troyens,’ at the Royal Opera House in London 2012-06-26T21:10:52Z The way to Vienna and operatic stardom was perilous. Renowned opera singer in Vienna going strong at 95 2012-12-20T12:46:04Z No, this wasn’t the equivalent of losing oneself to Wagnerian operatic rapture. The Bowl is no Bayreuth. And with Wagner in Dudamel's defiant hands, that's not a bad thing 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z In fact, the Met’s repertory is archaic, overlooking vast swaths of operatic history. The Met Chooses Yannick Nézet-Séguin 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The soloists weren't ideally matched, with Jubilant Sykes's bluesy style occasionally at odds with the more operatic approach of Paul Groves, Sally Matthews and Sarah Connolly. Prom 25: BBCSO/Robertson – review 2012-08-02T10:49:49Z Darius Milhaud was the first to complete an operatic setting in 1966, but its merits have not been tested since. Opera 'Ghosts of Versailles' may live forever 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z Dressed like a burlesque scientist, Sierra is possessed of a keening, powerful operatic trill that she unleashes while strumming a harp. CocoRosie – review 2012-08-06T16:50:16Z Ludwig really did have an escapist imagination, supported Wagner in his operatic excesses and blew his fortune on building Versailles-style castles. Valhalla! 2010-07-12T20:31:00Z The operatic directorial debut of Mr. Leigh is one of a number of new initiatives the opera company plans to undertake in the 2014-15 season. ArtsBeat: Mike Leigh to Direct ‘Pirates of Penzance’ for English National Opera 2014-04-29T14:56:31Z The lighting is characteristically spectacular, with plenty of backlighting and operatic contrasts. Sebastião Salgado: Genesis – review 2013-04-13T23:06:24Z She became the operatic equivalent of a character actor, using the aging of her voice to theatrical advantage. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “The piece came with a really fascinating pedigree,” he said, “this story that’s almost kind of operatic.” Santa Fe Opera to Stage Lewis Spratlan?s ?Life Is a Dream? 2010-04-11T21:56:00Z The music should be the most dramatic, the most operatic and meanwhile we use image and story to the best multimedia effect. 'Crouching Tiger' composer Tan Dun will give L.A. Phil a martial-arts workout 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z A tightly contained drama, it simplified what had been the operatic convention of extravagance, carefully integrating dance and diminishing spectacle. Joffrey Ballet dazzles in L.A. Opera's 'Orpheus and Eurydice' 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Schiff then allowed the slow movement to linger lovingly around operatic phrases, but he brought a metallic urgency to the Finale's otherwise innocent play. András Schiff and the L.A. Philharmonic join Haydn for a look at war 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z When she swoops into her upper register, her occasionally claustrophobic songs about fraying relationships become almost operatic. Review: Angel Olsen's new album builds on her life's dramas 2014-02-17T16:40:00Z So that may explain why for Trelinski "Iolanta" is conventional and operatically innocent, and "Bluebeard" is more modern and anything but innocent. Cinematic techniques at the Met mingle light and dark operas 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Clark’s sound, however, evokes not Holiday but rather a less operatic Sarah Vaughan fused with the more animated side of Shirley Horn, a singer who also liked to take her time. Music Review: Sharón Clark at the Metropolitan Room 2013-01-30T20:18:58Z They made gestural abstraction begin to look operatic and sappy and uncool. Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The work is essentially an operatic depiction of a biblical scene. This week's new live music 2011-08-19T23:08:14Z Similarly, where operatic scores were concerned, he tried to fathom what the composer wanted rather than imposing his own views. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T10:55:00Z Newsome, who was born in New Orleans and works between Brooklyn and Oakland, Calif., touches on many of these issues, while simultaneously seducing you with kaleidoscopic images, operatic sound and technological trickery. Rashaad Newsome Pulls Out All the Stops 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z And, in true operatic fashion, its telling is equally dependent on a conductor’s momentum, and actorly, complex expression from the singers. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Here, as in other moments, the bloom of an operatic voice stood out. Opera Star Tries Doin? What Comes Natur?lly 2011-07-14T22:16:30Z Hershberg, 37, launches into an operatic tour of the bizarre events of the past few years. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Only Malefane, a stately and commanding Queen of the Night gowned in feathers, is really at home with operatic technique. A 'Flute' from Africa renews Mozart's musical magic 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Lev also notes that, because of operatic singing’s elongated nature, the vocals won’t directly align with the sign language. Using deaf actors, Victory Hall Opera continues to push boundaries 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z A tragedy of marital chaos at the court of Louis XIII, it plays itself out during the course of a single night, and towards its close mutates into a kind of operatic High Noon. Maria di Rohan ? review 2011-07-10T16:46:00Z With Simon Rattle leading a virtually unimpeachable London Symphony Orchestra in the pit, this “Wozzeck” was one of those operatic miracles: a harmonious meeting of singing, playing and direction at an impressively high level. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Still, “Picture” stands alone, an operatic fable about the pursuit of happiness. An Opera Partnership’s Next Step: A Fable About Happiness 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Morris disapproved strongly of an operatic staging of a subject he regarded as his sacred property. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z When a writer’s previous novel was an operatic showpiece that earned the Man Booker Prize, his new novel has a lot to live up to. Review | If a rich liar asked you to ghostwrite his memoir, would you do it? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z This January at the Met is the operatic equivalent of grilled cheese dipped into tomato soup on a snowy afternoon. 4 Operas in 48 Hours: A Critic’s Marathon at the Met 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Composed in 1799 and one of the first operatic incarnations of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” “Falstaff” loudly echoes Mozart, although the work lacks both the sublimity and profundity of Mozart’s operas. The Lesser-Known ‘Falstaff,’ in 1980s Clothing 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z “Hollywood never quite knew what to do with her,” said Robert Falls, who directed Gugino in O’Neill’s feverishly operatic “Desire Under the Elms.” Carla Gugino Has Range, From ‘Spy Kids’ to Experimental Theater 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Cheerfully partial and unapologetically deferential to its subject’s operatic self-promotion, “Jodorowsky’s Dune” makes you wish that he had scraped together the final $5 million needed, we are told, to realize his dream. Movie Review: ‘Jodorowsky’s Dune,’ From Frank Pavich 2014-03-21T00:10:15Z Toward the final third of a performance that had mixed ambient sound, classical cello, operatic vocals, pop music and more, Kelsey Lu emerged in a pink, floral costume and offered a proclamation: “Spring has sprung.” Performing Arts Make a Cautious Return in New York 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Conceived and directed by Luke Leonard, the work functions reasonably well on Broadway musical terms, and there is no reason to believe it would have been better for being more operatic. Opera Review: Opera Celebrates Bum Phillips, Who Led the Houston Oilers 2014-03-21T22:01:54Z Possibly no one in operatic history has been as sublime and as tacky as the subject of “Pavarotti,” a new documentary by Ron Howard that opens on Friday. Pavarotti Captured the Sublime and Vulgar Sides of Opera 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z In his note, he writes that for all its French refinement, Poulenc’s score “needs, and rewards, the beauty of tone and expression that the greatest operatic voices cultivate.” Review: ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites,’ Under Will Crutchfield, Finds Beauty Anew 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z That sacking allowed him to pursue numerous opportunities to perform on the operatic stage, and it was not long before he arrived in London, then the centre of the operatic world. Guadagni: the first modern singer? 2012-07-19T13:13:24Z On the surface, “Crossing” is a sad and powerful almost traditional operatic love story. Walt Whitman's operatic America in 'Crossing' gets its West Coast premiere 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z The sounds on offer throughout two hours also span Albarn's lovelier acoustic numbers and more conventionally operatic versifying. Nicki Minaj; Dr Dee – review 2012-06-30T23:07:10Z Disguised as Leopold, the great conductor, Bugs exacts operatic revenge, then plays a victory tune on his banjo. Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z He’s achieved a longevity probably unmatched in operatic history; he reads music well enough to teach himself more than 150 roles; he ambitiously added conducting and opera-house administration to his resume. Pavarotti Captured the Sublime and Vulgar Sides of Opera 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z To find singers and dancers sharing the same dramatic idea, as in this Tcherniakov “Prince Igor,” is rare in operatic theater today. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Prince Igor’ Aims to Integrate Movement and Storytelling 2014-03-07T23:01:11Z The most instantly recognizable voice in contemporary music, he opened a new chapter in operatic history, pushing the bounds of duration and abstraction. Philip Glass Is Too Busy to Care About Legacy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Although they are reunited, he dies as the curtain falls - a twist on the usual operatic scenario where it's the heroine who succumbs. Schreker's opera 'Distant Sound' heard at Bard 2010-07-31T19:01:00Z Cosby writes in a spirit of generous abundance and gleeful abandon and, unlike a lot of noir writers, he doesn’t shy from operatic emotion. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Though interested in an operatic career from an early age, Mr. MacNeil suffered from asthma until he was 20. Cornell MacNeil, Verdi Baritone at the Met, Dies at 88 2011-07-18T03:30:33Z Three nights earlier I heard Currentzis conduct a stupendous performance of Mahler’s First Symphony, the players standing and bringing near operatic character to their individual parts. Peter Sellars turns Mozart's last opera into a modern message of humanity in the face of terror 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z The choreography blossoms exuberantly, and even momentarily mimics the operatic action, as dancers ride on each other's shoulders and elegantly wield their bows and arrows. Trisha Brown Dance Company ? review 2010-10-18T20:29:00Z But the show was dynamic, not melancholy, in spite of the lush operatic music of “La Traviata” on the initial soundtrack. Fashion Review: Chanel's Kinetic Look at a New World 2013-07-02T17:11:40Z No. For all of Phillips’s late immersion in the Christianity of his upbringing and his newly adopted mission of visiting prisoners, there is no heroic action here of operatic scope. Opera Review: Opera Celebrates Bum Phillips, Who Led the Houston Oilers 2014-03-21T22:01:54Z That failure is the tragedy of “Awakenings,” its most operatic quality. An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z There is not an operatic flourish to be seen in a film whose killings are executed with a cold-blooded efficiency. Movie Listings for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The trouble with a lot of operatic subjects is their distance from today. Mark-Anthony Turnage: A life in music 2011-01-22T07:59:00Z Becoming the Marx Brothers, meanwhile, is more operatically ambitious than it might seem. How a Lost Marx Brothers Musical Found Its Way Back Onstage 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z His father, a Presbyterian preacher, Robert Crutchfield of Newport News, Va., led a double life as a professional operatic tenor. Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z The story is relatively simple, by Baroque operatic standards. At Glimmerglass Festival, ‘The Magic Flute’ Is Among the Reimagined 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z "I was like, 'Are you sure? You don't want me to use the operatic voice I've trained for years?' " she recalled. Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian hopes to give voice to her Armenian ancestors 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Even the musical choices, which included operatic arias, were overly emphatic. Life, death, rebirth in Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s ‘Rice’ 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z TREND: Concert halls are seeing a surge in operatic and symphonic music celebrating notable African Americans. What's coming in 2018: Arts 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z In Scorsese’s solemnly operatic crime epic, time is one of the three-and-half-hour film’s principle subjects. Scorsese, De Niro and Pacino on time and ‘The Irishman’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The singers performed with an operatic sound, which made him realize that the piece required voices with the directness of wind instruments. A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the well-chosen newsreels and Timi's appropriately operatic performance are not given nearly enough screen time. 'Vincere' follows Mussolini's charismatic impact on World War II through tragic lover 2010-04-01T18:56:00Z Kudos to the Virginia Opera for venturing off the too-beaten operatic path, and taking me along with it. An opera director attempts to turn German Romanticism into American Gothic 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Those last pages, especially, are among the finest of the operatic literature.” Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z I had written a soliloquy that I would describe as an operatic soliloquy; it was poeticized and emotional. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z It refuses to build to the kind of operatic weepie Brown himself wouldn’t respect. ‘Devotion’ Review: An Airman in Reflection 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z “I invert it into a Chinese operatic style,” he said. Santa Fe Opera announces plans to stage world premieres 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Keenlyside’s energy seemed to rise after intermission with the concluding nine songs, including two set to texts by Goethe, whose dramatic poems inspired Schubert to vivid, almost operatic narratives. Music Review: Looking at Schubert and Finding Hamlet 2011-03-14T23:00:13Z “Succession,” HBO’s operatic saga about a media dynasty and a two-time best drama winner, scored 27 Emmy nominations for its farewell season on Wednesday morning, the biggest haul of any series. HBO’s ‘Succession’ Dominates Emmy Nominations in Uncertain Year 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Presumably they were intended to enrich the stock operatic plot and put flesh on – and take clothes off – Donizetti's cardboard characters. Lucrezia Borgia; CBSO/Nelsons; Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:35Z He was attracted by his streetwise, irreverent approach and went to see the playwright, who proposed “Greek” as the most operatic of his plays. The Orchestra Brawls in a ‘Beer and Pizza’ Oedipus Opera 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The first sound we hear in the operatic movie is the crisp crack of gunfire. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Even when the melody soars a bit, it seldom conveys overwhelming emotion of the kind that motivates operatic arias; it is still too busy just dispensing the facts. Opera Review: Opera Celebrates Bum Phillips, Who Led the Houston Oilers 2014-03-21T22:01:54Z "Death and the Powers" is a cautionary tale about the romance and mystery of technology that enlists some of the most complex, sophisticated technology to have been put on the operatic stage. COT's dazzling 'robot opera' poses provocative new questions 2011-04-03T18:39:00Z Photograph: Donald Cooper The idea that you can drive down a lane or up a wold, park in a field then have an operatic experience comparable with the best still feels miraculous. Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review 2012-07-21T23:05:54Z These outfits operate without the operatic flourishes associated with such organizations in popular fictions. ‘Piranhas’ Review: Junior Mafia 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z At moments of parting there were “operatic scenes of farewell.” Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z So Levin instead uses the operatic expressive range of his chosen instrument to imbue the sonatas with visceral drama. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Afterward, I’m like aaaah, ,” he boomed out a pair of operatic notes. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z An operatic quarrel ensued at the summer home of a friend over a sweltering August weekend in 1987. A Take-No-Prisoners Biography of Barack Obama Examines His Early Love Life 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z How Mr. Moran, once anointed as an operatic trailblazer, came to his present idiom is a story often retold. Music Review: Collaboration at 72 Beats Per Minute 2011-06-26T21:54:06Z “Passions,” a new production that opened on Saturday night, ventured furthest from standard notions of operatic fare. Critic’s Notebook: Glimmerglass Offers an Ambitious Spread of Works 2013-07-22T22:01:46Z It’s an open question in Janacek’s operatic thriller “The Makropulos Case,” about the twilight of a woman who has adopted an assortment of identities throughout her unnaturally long life. A Shape-Shifting Opera Singer, With a Debut to Match 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z “The Perfect American” is the operatic portrait of an idealist American artist as a less-than-perfect old man, which is to say a blend of sunshine, supremacy and insecurity. An opera about Walt Disney, in commuting distance of Disneyland 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z “I don’t know how to make an opera,” Brooks said, “but what I do know is that the enormity of this mammal that has been kind of guiding me through this process is operatic.” Making Dance Out of Survival Skills and Reckoning With Grief 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z It is fluent and sensible, but that may not be enough when approaching one of the most disorienting works in operatic history. Review: Cheers, but Modest Impact, for Revisionist ‘Tristan’ 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Her one stage prop was a plastic tulip, and she ended with her one English-language song of the night, a full-tilt, almost operatic treatment of Tiptoe Through the Tulips. Tulipa ? review 2011-04-01T21:30:01Z The game’s story called for a massive plane crash, out of which a single robot, operatically aflame, was intended to stride toward the player. On the Ranch with the Creators of “Westworld” 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z By that time the city’s operatic tastes were shifting toward Meyerbeer’s epic spectacles, which Rossini dismissed as “the big.” The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z It’s big and operatic, often driving her to do the very things for which she’s been publicly shamed: acting out, picking fights, trawling for affirmation. Review: ‘A Really Good Day,’ Ayelet Waldman’s Better Living Through LSD 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z His diva tenancies were on full display Sunday night as he judged an international operatic singing competition in Bucharest. Ex-Opera director Holender still calling the tunes 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z In the 1760s, he gravitated towards the like-minded Viennese circles surrounding Gluck, who wrote Orfeo for him, instigating one of the most important operatic revolutions in the process. Iestyn Davies: Arias for Guadagni – review 2012-06-07T21:55:01Z Unlike many operatic heroines, she doesn't die at the end; instead, she flies into a rage and vows revenge. Review: Fleming, 6 tenors lead rare Rossini at Met 2010-04-13T14:31:00Z “Orlando,” convoluted as it is, spins a simpler tale of a typically operatic love quadrangle. An Early-Music Ensemble Gives a Handel Opera a Period Punch 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The style is distinctly cinematic, but the emotion verges on operatic. | Film: It Takes a Funeral: So Much Angst 2014-02-28T23:24:31Z The clan foregathers in Acapulco at Christmas, but I imagine that Domingo spends the holidays waiting to resume the revved-up life and slowed-down death of an operatic hero. Pl?cido Domingo: 'I am a very happy man, but I love to suffer on stage' 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z His encampment is close enough to the castle – where Maurice will soon be arriving – that MacDonald, lovelorn on her balcony hears it, and completes the circle by singing the song in full operatic fervour. How Twin Peaks led a fan into and out of trouble 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z But tucked away adjacent to the stadium-style seating is Bregenz’s festival house, a sleek modern theater of traditional size, where a quite different brand of operatic entertainment takes place. Review: 'The Passenger' Gets Long Awaited Full Staging at Bregenz Festival 2010-08-03T14:00:00Z At least since Montserrat Caballé made her U.S. debut with the American Opera Society at Carnegie Hall in 1965, concert opera performances have been among the most vocally exciting events of the operatic year. The sorely neglected opera that, performed like WCO did, could make opera a hit 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Pound for pound, ton for ton, it is the most witless and wasteful production in modern operatic history. Bryn Terfel: 'I'd like to sing Citizen Kane' 2012-06-26T17:40:14Z Pulling off Potts' operatic singing voice proved a bit more challenging. Corden on singing like Paul Potts 2013-10-25T07:42:31Z And while it makes sense that Edgardo and Lucia could not have communicated from afar in the libretto’s Scottish Highlands, the explanation for their radio silence in today’s world strains credulity, even by operatic standards. Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Lee based “The Music There” on music by Stevie Nicks, while Jones fashioned Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” and “A Natural Woman” into the equivalent of a 21st-century Liszt operatic fantasy for string quartet. Perspective | A quartet named Ethel brings fresh ideas to town 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Even so, each vocal technique implies a certain distance, from the mere arm’s reach of a quietly spoken word to the torpedo aim of an operatic soprano. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Limo opera: Meant to put opera literally on the downtown L.A. map, "Hopscotch" cruised operatic limousines through the inner city and its environs. Classical music 2015 highlights: Female conductors, 'Hopscotch,' Dudamel — but about those parking fees 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Subdued tone and a slow pace suggest a ceremonial rather than conventionally operatic drama. A George Benjamin Exacting Storm in Opera Comes to Mostly Mozart 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z The plot of mistaken identities is wacky, even by operatic standards. Music Review | New York City Opera: At the David H. Koch Theater, Opera With a Madcap Plot 2010-03-19T22:59:00Z As part of the festivities for Dylan Thomas's centenary, an operatic version of his famous radio play Under Milk Wood has had its world premiere in Wales. Turning Under Milk Wood into an opera 2014-04-04T07:15:10Z Mr. Groff always made his tics, inconsistencies and operatically scaled mistakes believable, and it’s true again in the film. Review: ‘Looking: The Movie’ Finds Change (and Angst) Are Constant 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z McNally would compose in many other keys over the years, the poignant notes of 1987’s “Frankie and Johnny,” in particular, revealing a gift for a tone as removed from the operatic as one could imagine. Perspective | With Terrence McNally’s death, the theater has lost a voice of consummate wit and passion 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Their songs, however – often regarded as secondary achievements – frequently took on the character of operatic sketches, requiring elements of grandeur or virtuosity in performance. Crowe/Maltman/Johnson – review 2013-01-06T18:04:43Z Of course camp has swamped the culture, from Strictly Come Dancing to Mamma Mia!, but the operatic kind is very particular. How I fell out of love with opera 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z Her singing voice, which slides between operatic trills and lowdown purrs, is a breezy shorthand for the show’s double edge. ‘On the Town' Revival Opens on Broadway 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The more formal the song, the more comfortable she sounds: Her “Summertime” works as a stately lullaby, but can’t compare to more operatic renditions. Aretha Franklin, Annie Lennox and Kiesza Release New Albums 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z With the smokiness of a ’90s R&B icon, she oozes coldhearted pity for her ex over a funky bass line and operatic strings. Tame Impala’s Disco-Prog Shrug, and 9 More New Songs 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Drawing from Afrofuturistic funk, free jazz and early '90s hip-hop influences — not to mention a heavily dramatized, almost operatic spoken-word component — the album is as energetic and kaleidoscopic as its first singles foreshadowed. Kendrick Lamar's 'To Pimp a Butterfly' gets a surprise early release 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z At the Armory, he found operatic climaxes in most songs — his high notes were strong, shattering, indefatigable. Review: A Big Baritone Sound at Play in an Intimate Setting 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The subject matter leans toward the politically charged and emotionally brutal, extreme even by operatic standards of suffering. A Penetrating Cry in the Dark at the Prototype Festival 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z She is stubborn, abrasive and operatically self-expressive — her emotions far too grand for her mean, tawdry surroundings. | 'A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop': Remade in China: Coen Brothers? Tale of Infidelity and Revenge 2010-09-02T21:30:00Z Finished with school, several years into her life as an operatic soprano and with some professional work that showed signs of promise for a viable life as a singer, Ms. Davidsen began to enter competitions. A ‘One-in-a-Million Voice’ Arrives at the Met Opera 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z "It's an operatic space that needs an operatic response," says Turner. Little Bulb: natural born lyres 2013-03-27T08:00:06Z His name is all but forgotten today, but a century ago Franz Schreker was considered perhaps the most important operatic composer since Richard Wagner. Schreker's opera 'Distant Sound' heard at Bard 2010-07-31T19:01:00Z Tines’s solos, foundationally operatic but with some flexibility to the protean score, serve as a through line, and his spoken parts bookend the piece, grounding the production in the text. “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z As the title promises, day breaks in “The Dark Knight Rises,” the grave and satisfying finish to Mr. Nolan’s operatic bat-trilogy. | 'The Dark Knight Rises’: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ With Christian Bale 2012-07-18T17:49:45Z “Miss Saigon” unfolded in what he calls a “huge operatic box” but is now grounded more firmly in the streets of Bangkok. Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Today, at 38, she lives her life as an operatic superstar on the stages of the great opera houses, from Vienna to New York, Milan to London. Anna Netrebko: 'I can make Manon ... bad' 2010-06-17T21:10:00Z The operatic version of “Dead Man Walking,” and this production, tested that statement by attempting the inverse and, unfortunately, proved it right. ‘Dead Man Walking’ is a new opera for old audiences 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z It met with considerable acclaim, much of it deserved, though when I saw it, on Thursday evening, the operatic garb seemed not to fit entirely comfortably. Music Review: ‘Doubt,’ Adaptation Performed by Minnesota Opera 2013-02-03T23:24:03Z An orchestra of at least 72 players was reduced to an ensemble of 18, creating leaner textures and encouraging a less, well, operatic singing and acting style. Cuts, Big and Small, Transform Leonard Bernstein’s Final Opera 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Even so, it took a Sellars to prove "Hercules" can address the issues of today with such burning urgency on today's operatic stage. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z This character faces a classic operatic dilemma in which her moral scruples and loyalty to Anna clash with her unbridled lust for Henry and the throne. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko?s Bel Canto Moment 2011-04-12T11:05:35Z Still, he has brought operatic music and singing styles to millions. Critic?s Notebook: Andrea Bocelli, Philharmonic and Friends in Central Park 2011-09-16T17:41:13Z And most crucially, he worked to expand the operatic canon. David Gockley, Opera Impresario, Hangs Up His Cloak 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The four-movement sonata, expressively performed by Ms. Artymiw and Mr. Berick, evokes Handel’s operatic style with ornamented, emotive melodies; the weeping lines of the Larghetto sounded like a trademark Handelian lament. Music Review: What Henry (Could Have) Heard: Night at the Frick 2010-10-13T21:42:00Z He is a universally respected musician who more than anyone else has helped build the Met into an international operatic powerhouse. James Levine Withdraws From Met?s Fall Season 2011-09-07T04:32:44Z Mr. Pierce, a tightly wound yo-yo of a performer, unspools in this operatic lament about cultural decline. Critic’s Notebook: Broadway’s Laughs, From Nathan Lane to Bette Midler 2013-05-29T16:05:07Z To write a quintet was, for Wagner, to use a formal device from the operatic past – from number opera – that he had abandoned decades before, in the late 1840s. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z Two legends will share the stage on Friday when Los Angeles Opera hosts a live conversation between Broadway diva Patti LuPone and operatic mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne. Patti LuPone, Marilyn Horne in conversation about 'Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Overall it's a belting experience; operatically over-cranked, never knowingly understated, and all the better for it. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-05-11T23:05:13Z For the actors, who are accustomed to performing in musicals including “Spring Awakening,” which has been part of Deaf West’s repertory, adapting to a more operatic style has been something of an adjustment. Singing, and Signing, Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ in Los Angeles 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z “Tenor Overboard” relies more on theatrical dialogue than on the usual operatic recitative, so Ludwig’s libretto had to be fairly extensive — and funny. Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z But Johnston, while eloquent, required a near operatic manner to rise above the orchestra in this hall. Gemma New test-drives the Long Beach Symphony with an interesting, ambitious program 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Six years after their previous operatic collaboration, the masterly “Written on Skin,” Mr. Benjamin and Mr. Crimp have again dared to challenge audiences by remaining true to their uncompromising visions. Review: A Long-Awaited New Opera Is a Raucous Beauty 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z They are like elements of a kitschy, operatic stage set. Zhang Huan and Virginia Overton Contrast at Storm King 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Portraying Mr. Castro as an operatic character is daring in a nation where freedom of expression is limited, and debates over artistic freedoms and their limits are as old as the revolution. ‘Cubanacán’ Imagines When Che and Fidel Compared Golf Swings 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z They shatter the realistic, dramatic image with operatic fury, implode it with frozen stillness, accelerate it with hallucinatory frenzy, overwhelm it with obsessional multiplicity, submerge it with mythological anguish. The Best Movies of 2014 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Today, music lovers know of it through Massenet’s late-Romantic operatic version. Cultural Clicks: Tweets from God, the Songs of Summer, and Soccer Art 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z But it is followed immediately by a fabulously operatic moment for the chorus. Santa Fe Opera breathes new life into epic Civil War tale ‘Cold Mountain’ 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z He even turned down operatic requests from Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. A fresh recording of 'Long Christmas Dinner' serves plenty to be thankful for 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z It struck me as less like Chinese rap than a Chinese art/pop equivalent of Italian operatic patter. A Dazzling Chinese Singer’s Riveting Song Cycle 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Then just 12 years old and part of what Time magazine called “the American operatic explosion,” the company flourished in the space. Music Review: ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at Lyric Opera of Kansas City - Review 2011-11-14T22:14:30Z His operatic debut, “The Virgin Suicides,” depicted the deaths of five pretty sisters and the fallout on the boys who worshipped them. Books of The Times: ?The Marriage Plot? by Jeffrey Eugenides ? Review 2011-10-06T15:39:59Z At the Titanic screening last night, I heard some of the viewers laugh at the more operatic lines of dialogue. Titanic, TIME and Me 2012-04-04T20:24:41Z And if, while we were there twirling our linguine, papa Pasquale would raise his voice in operatic song, well, that's Italian, si? Mamma Melina moves in: to University Village neighborhood 2010-06-10T21:16:00Z As Bryant, Smith bellows, letting her words crack and bounce around the rafters at an operatic volume. Anna Deavere Smith Contains Multitudes 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z He performed them straight from the heart with an almost operatic formality and without a trace of irony. Music Review: Michael Feinstein Performs at Birdland 2013-12-18T22:22:27Z He grew a beard for the part of Dafydd, the director of an amateur operatic society production. VIDEO: Brydon on West End stage debut 2012-09-28T15:32:24Z Admittedly, Trump isn’t the only world leader to get this kind of operatic recognition. Perspective | Opera plays its Trump card: Yes, the president is showing up in Verdi 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The operatic repertory keeps getting bigger, with most of the expansion at the two ends of the timeline. Review: ‘Persée et Andromède’ Glows at Manhattan School of Music 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Muti, one of the most respected living exponents of the Italian operatic tradition, is perhaps uniquely qualified to help guide her through this treacherous transition, and their collaboration was a resounding success. Opera Review: Anna Netrebko in ‘Manon Lescaut,’ at the Rome Opera 2014-03-03T17:53:28Z For most of the 20th century his paintings were relegated to the dustbin of art history along with similarly operatic landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church. Perfect Poise, Pulled From Jaws of Distortion 2010-12-30T22:46:46Z It's not a place where you can imagine the world's biggest operatic challenge being staged. Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010-07-22T22:06:00Z All of it is held together by Sumac’s operatic trills, which could leap from low growls to high-C coloratura that sounded as if it could shatter glass. On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Later, he studied opera with a teacher who helped him compile a list of operatic roles to learn and opera houses where he wished to sing. Johan Botha, acclaimed operatic tenor, dies at 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But you don't need to see Prima Donna to get operatic camp in full flounce. How I fell out of love with opera 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z That understanding came partly from the fact that his wife, Carolyn Bailey, was an operatic soprano of considerable talent who served as her husband’s critic, adviser, and muse. The Elegant Musical Vessels of Dominick Argento 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Puccini’s paralyzing three-year search for a suitable operatic subject was over. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z His slim book “Memoranda During the War,” which inspired “Crossing,” is fragmented into vignettes with operatic flourishes: observations, even grisly details, followed by sweeping, impassioned statements about broader subjects like youth, America and conflict. How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z His most celebrated work thus far has been the shockingly cannibalistic operatic collaboration with Vavrek, "Dog Days," which Los Angeles Opera presented last June. 'JFK' is a surreal spin on president's last night in Texas 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Like almost everything about the Academy Awards, it rewards tragedy rather than comedy, and grandiloquence rather than subtlety, so there is something operatic in lining up a five-part fantasy league of the best actress winners. Who is the best Oscar-winning lead actress of all time? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Rossini’s “Cinderella” has all the ingredients of a delightful operatic comedy: sparkling music, comic characters, a simple plot studded with jokes and tied up with the bow of a happy ending. In Washington National Opera’s ‘Cinderella,’ parts are better than sum 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The operatic vista is the equivalent of showing the sculpture with Wagner playing loud. Why Rodin's The Kiss was made for Margate 2012-05-28T13:38:52Z The shows don’t parody specific works as much as they do the feel of the genres themselves — big emotions and operatic intensity. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z He has collaborated on two libretti, an operatic sideline resulting from a misapprehension. David Mitchell: 'I don't want to project myself as this great experimenter' 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z The ace in the hole was the show’s light operatic component. Music Review: K T Sullivan and Larry Woodard at Laurie Beechman Theater 2012-06-21T21:51:41Z That they did so in a venue often used for operatic drama not only added dramatic heft, but also infused the night with a worshipful kind of clarity. Sufjan Stevens delivers exquisite set at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Yet that rather soulless commercial zenith was matched by some astounding artistic achievements, from the operatic Mad Max: Fury Road to Pixar’s literalised emotional rollercoaster Inside Out. What was the best summer ever for big-budget film? 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Even Patience on her monument, faced with another operatic job-swap mismatch, must eventually yield to human nature and yell "Enough". Lucrezia Borgia; CBSO/Nelsons; Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-06T00:06:35Z A generation of Chinese opera composers have come of age in the West, making for a new genre that draws from both Eastern and Western operatic traditions. Essential Arts & Culture: A new museum on the National Mall, Arthur Miller reimagined, the 'Vermeer' of L.A. 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z And yes, Stephen Sondheim has given Landless permission to get loud with what may be his best-known and most operatic show. Attend the tale, and turn it up: New prog metal ‘Todd’ premieres in D.C. He knows the music of the Italian American voices, from punk to bar stool to operatic. Best thriller and mystery books of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Gilliam's sense of spectacle and of the extraordinary surely bodes well; he is an "operatic" film director. Terry Gilliam, Mike Figgis make opera debuts at ENO 2010-04-15T15:39:00Z A little digging could likely find but a degree or two of operatic separation in even the third notable opera of 2016, Thomas Adès’ “The Exterminating Angel,” based on Luis Buñuel’s classic film. Noh theater: The world's oldest stage tradition is popping up everywhere 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z "A beating will do me a world of good," declares Walker in operatic wail to open "Brando" with dramatic flair. Scott Walker and Sunn 0)))'s dark 'Soused': Judge it for yourself 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z The three or four-hour operatic scenarios are less approachable to an audience used to those punchier, later Italians, Verdi and Puccini. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z Chorus members joined in with robust voices, lending an operatic air to the tune. City Opera Director Defends New Season 2011-07-12T23:00:30Z “The Rake’s Progress” Slyly moving, Stravinsky’s operatic masterpiece riffs on Mozartean Classicism with an energy and tenderness that presses it past pastiche. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Davis’s operatic writing was once performed at Lincoln Center by New York City Opera; now, if you want to hear this work in the city, you’ll likely end up at Roulette. A Critic’s Favorite Space for Music in New York Turns 40 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Gone are some of the more soap operatic excesses, like the villainy of producers’ assistant Ellis and the whining of Julia’s son Leo. TV Tonight: Love, Hate, or Love-to-Hate It, Smash Is Back 2013-02-05T13:59:56Z Heaton said the page appeared to be Mercury trying out options for the operatic section of “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Was Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Originally ‘Mongolian Rhapsody’? 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z There was a speech, on the hardly operatic topic of military spending. ‘JFK’ Envisions an Operatic Ending for Camelot 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Vernatter explained that Puccini had never set foot in Japan when he saw David Belasco’s one-act play “Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan” and decided to write an operatic version. Saying Yes to Puccini, but No to His Stereotypes 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z A storm is an archetypal operatic image to herald turbulence in the hearts of a story's protagonists. The Flying Dutchman; Medea – review 2013-02-24T00:07:18Z In part because of this, however, the anomalous turn to comedy imposed different operatic constraints – and in so doing steered both Verdi's and Wagner's musical imaginations in odd but stimulating directions. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z There’s something theatrical and almost operatic about this work, and Al-Hadid brings us further into the drama with a stunning archway built into the wall between two galleries. Diana Al-Hadid sculptural paintings: Such beautiful decay 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The operatic piece was commissioned by the Common Guild at Mitchell Library in Glasgow. This Year’s Turner Prize Shortlist Features Three Women and a Design Collective 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Subtle though After Life is, we are still left with the curious paradox of an opera that gains its power above all from real life – the least operatic element within it. After Life 2010-05-16T20:30:00Z But Chicago was always the choice for the place to set it because it seems like the politics of this city, throughout its history, has been just operatically fascinating, right? Kelsey Grammer, the Boss of Chicago 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z The piece is not afraid to play with operatic conventions, as in the Roman general’s exaggerated coloratura, but neither is it emptily ironic. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z It turns out that the operatic discothèque sound bath — punctuated by human screeches — works just as well on a large scale as a small one. The Hottest Song at the Club? ‘The White Lotus’ Dance Remix 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z The teaming of Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti performing operatic favorites and pop tunes did indeed generate a lot of money over several concerts, albums, DVDs and broadcasts. A look back at the Three Tenors concert at Dodger Stadium 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Yet she was a superb performer, whether in the operatic repertoire or performing spirituals. Calm operatic voice for civil rights 2014-04-09T07:07:48Z Chamber Orchestra and Kahane are casting the operatic roles and handling the musical details, while Bogart and actors from her company are managing the theatrical elements. A race-themed work not performed in L.A. for 67 years is back for a Black Lives Matter era 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z |
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