His X-Men movies have revolved around grand operatic conflict and spectacle, with operatic feelings to match.
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The operatic connection was most apparent in her rendition of the Billie Holiday classic "Strange Fruit," which she sang as a duet with the operatic soprano Janinah Burnett.
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Daniels said all of his work tends to be operatic.
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Tish let fly a solitary but operatic and satisfying screech.
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And most crucially, he worked to expand the operatic canon.
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Inevitably, as in any operatic career, there were critical cavils.
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Has anyone in music — has anyone, ever — been so operatic?
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Too many of the solos felt like operatic set pieces.
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"But this represents just the tip of the operatic iceberg."
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The vocal soloists, all with operatic leanings, were nevertheless varied.
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Bayreuth has something of an operatic history of its own.
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"Redoubt" lacks the operatic grandeur some of Barney's fanboys prefer.
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But long before the "Ring" cycle, Bayreuth had another operatic visionary.
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She portrayed Lily Pons, a French-American operatic soprano and actress.
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It hits just the right note of ridiculous, surprising, and operatic.
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Again, it's a powerful piece but operatic in the loosest sense.
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Hefty stuff ... so it should make for some good operatic theater.
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This modest production presents a vivid new spin on operatic performance.
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The operatic trappings actually enhance the work's majestic and sublime qualities.
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And Alejandro G. Iñárritu's "The Revenant" brings operatic intensity to FXM.
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So I wanted to make this big operatic, apocalyptic breakup film.
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Or maybe that he was art—textural, operatic, insistent on worship.
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The music drives ahead, with insistent rhythms and operatic high notes.
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And the operatic world has truly opened its doors for us.
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The composer was on to something: summits, with their high stakes and larger-than-life personalities, are natural operatic fodder and despite being a modernist work, "Nixon in China" has established itself in the operatic repertoire.
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But she doesn't offer a reading experience that conveys its operatic power.
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"Vinyl" is a loud show, full of blaring music and operatic emotions.
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But the sprawling, almost operatic show does so much more than that.
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At times, the singing sounds borderline operatic or almost like folk melody.
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There was a speech, on the hardly operatic topic of military spending.
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Yet this intimate moment is bracketed by deliberately operatic, even bombastic gestures.
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Mr. Yi, 50, is perhaps an unlikely patron of the operatic arts.
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Don't worry if this puzzle drove you to fits of operatic drama.
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There are those who see grand theater and operatic drama in sports.
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In America's great public hospitals, the show is nothing short of operatic.
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Nino, as he was known, engaged in operatic gestures and brilliant rhetoric.
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"I instantly knew it would make a great operatic subject," he said.
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The operatic voice, and the art form itself, can feel so fragile.
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu aspires to operatic intensity in this rugged revenge story.
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Operatic voices, however, tend to take much longer to emerge and develop.
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The full operatic version was shaping up to be just as cynical.
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But being an operatic person doesn't mean you'll create a good opera.
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The pair of operatic masterpieces that capped Verdi's career almost didn't happen.
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Operatic voices fill the woods as robins flutter down and surround her.
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Each is presented in Chinn's affecting, operatic voice, along with visual demonstrations.
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The English soprano Gweneth-Ann Rand, who has sung the lead role in all performances of "4.48" to date, was fearlessly impassioned as Gwen, her spoken delivery as commanding as her operatic—or, in this case, anti-operatic—singing.
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" Expect "a big, operatic family drama centered around a world of international espionage.
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Mr Bilodeau notes that it is also a story of appropriately operatic dimensions.
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I tried to invest it with pathos, even, drawing on my operatic training.
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That moment was so operatic; I wouldn't have guessed that was actually real.
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Vocally, Mr. Szot (pronounced shot) gently pushed at the boundaries of operatic convention.
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" The most recent World Cup reportedly outclassed all others in producing "operatic drama.
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The festival, O18, will race through five operatic performances from Sept. 20-30.
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Handel's operatic genius comes through most powerfully in his arias for lower voices.
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In its place, that most operatic of requiems, Verdi's, conducted by James Levine.
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And, I think, for the same reasons, Kushner's operatic naturalism and their length.
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These are the very operatic experiences that I encourage others to partake in.
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The show wasn't very operatic, a critic wrote, nor was it very good.
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Like Cindy Sherman, Remy contains multitudes; they've simply never sounded this operatic before.
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The way he sees it, traditional operatic singing is an art in crisis.
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She performs as a solo musician, combining theatrical and operatic influences in her work.
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He just had a magnificently crazy and operatic sensibility, and just an awesome imagination.
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Because The Sun Is Also A Star confronts America's inequities, too, in operatic fashion.
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For Mr Tommasini, it was "one of [New York's] operatic highlights of recent years".
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To Wagner's mind, acting should not be secondary to the music in operatic performances.
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The anime masterpiece is a mashup of interplanetary operatic science fiction, noir, and western.
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"The Architect's Dream" (1840), composed like an operatic stage set, epitomizes Cole's architectonic imagination.
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An internationally renowned soprano is about to make her operatic debut at Lincoln Center.
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A beautiful, operatic baritone rang out into the summer morning as I passed him.
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The operatic quality of the first three days of the convention worried some Republicans.
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This battle is operatic, the soldiers moving in slow motion and framed by fog.
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Life in New York, with its exhilarating highs and weighty lows, can feel operatic.
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You may have watched the near-operatic progress of Chang'e-4's graceful landing.
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Quiet and complicated, the twinned androgyny only deepens the picture's curiously placid, operatic feel.
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It used to be that female operatic roles, or dan, were always played by men.
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Even the most ordinary tasks can be made dramatic with an operatic chorus narrating them.
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This Superunknown standout captures Cornell's huge range, from his brooding baritone to his operatic shrieking.
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Her self-presentation skewed quieter, however, than the operatic flowers of her best-known artwork.
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And while Mr. Noseda has an extensive operatic repertory, his experience with Wagner is limited.
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The operatic form, he felt, had become too strongly associated with nineteenth-century bourgeois mores.
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The distance between operatic offerings uptown and downtown is not as wide as it appears.
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Tippi Hedren, star of Hitchcock's "Marnie," took in a new operatic version of the story.
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The Komische Oper has a long history of presenting musicals and operettas alongside operatic staples.
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But when he really let go and sang with operatic fervor, he sounded more secure.
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"Punjabis are like the southern Italians of the Indian subcontinent, loud and operatic," he explained.
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But Jones has a bigger palette, which allows him to fully exploit O'Neill's operatic urges.
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Forbidden love, jealousy and betrayal are some of the most common components of operatic librettos.
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We're detached a bit, too, by some mocking of operatic (and specifically "Carmen"-related) conventions.
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"Orlando," convoluted as it is, spins a simpler tale of a typically operatic love quadrangle.
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She's experimentally minded, certainly, but her works contain plenty of more traditional operatic melody, too.
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Nothing in the brilliant operatic career of Gioachino Rossini became him like the leaving it.
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And like an operatic tenor, or star ballerina, they are what the crowd came to see.
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Ted Cruz speaks with operatic pauses and has leaned heavily on religious imagery for his credibility.
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"I hear this incredible operatic sound coming from the greenhouse," Karen's sister, Christina Russo, told ABC.
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In touching upon the operatic highlights of his short life, Pollock drops a lot of names.
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Groban turns to something completely different than his typical operatic style or Broadway score — classic rock.
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Neal won 'AGT' back in 2008 ... wowing the judges and the audience with his operatic voice.
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Samuel Ramey, an operatic bass-baritone, said that Ms Bretan had "no business" singing the aria.
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In this sense, "there can be no true operatic prodigies," says Claudia Friedlander, a vocal coach.
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The real-life Hopper marriage (often tumultuous and sometimes abusive) could have provided plentiful operatic fodder.
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So although Pitsiladis and Bekele agreed to renew their partnership, it was full of operatic uncertainty.
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Establishing "Porgy" as a secure part of the operatic repertory is one of his proudest achievements.
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New York (CNN)Today, Ta'u Pupu'a is an operatic tenor with the voice of an angel.
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Players chirped incessantly at the referees, signaling their annoyance in operatic facial contortions and hand motions.
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This operatic yarn is less argumentative than most of Mr. Carlin's bits, more open to interpretation.
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She sang with perfect intonation, elastic rhythm, an operatic range from thick lows to silky highs.
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Operatic productions, given their ambitions and expense, are always planned at least a year in advance.
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Suddenly, everything kicks into the operatic emotional overdrive that is the ShondaLand signature: These beautiful people.
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic brings an operatic masterpiece back to life, with a lavishly glowing sphere.
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In its place: that most operatic of requiems, Verdi's, conducted by James Levine at 303 p.m.
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Her debut album tells a personal story by placing folk songs alongside mostly Russian operatic repertoire.
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A multiple Grammy Award winner, she was a towering figure on operatic, concert and recital stages.
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AMSTERDAM — Frida Kahlo's vibrant art, turbulent life and tragic death at age 47 are certainly operatic.
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In the last decade of Salieri's operatic career, from 1795 to 1804, his standing slipped further.
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From our greatest singing actress, truly an operatic performance you can appreciate with the sound off.
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Behind the ornate wooden door, we hear the symphony, a woman's operatic voice beginning to croon.
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The lesbian storyline is tender, and propped up by heartfelt, if sometimes operatic performances by the leads.
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Those deaths are operatic, with over-the-top blood effects, a cacophonous soundscape, and dramatic camera flourishes.
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She's best known for her operatic pipes, but Jackie Evancho is going pop on her latest album.
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It's also a love letter to department stores of yore, and to the operatic flow of trade.
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Samantha ends up masturbating about him, during which she breaks out into a full-on operatic orgasm.
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The new notification will include a special diamond icon alongside an operatic rendition of the original sound.
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But video opera — that is, operatic works conceived for video — has a spottier history, which is curious.
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Mr De Benedetti's return may be particularly operatic, but other Italian Methuselahs are also in the spotlight.
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The work felt unshackled from the conventions of operatic storytelling, but nonetheless built to a powerful dénouement.
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This is the second installment of On Site's presentation of unfamiliar operatic versions of Beaumarchais's Figaro trilogy.
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But Mr. Trump's audience may have still had his campaign's anxious, operatic music ringing in their ears.
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If anything, Mr. Morris's concept of the three pieces is more operatic than the scores would imply.
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Reese Witherspoon transcends type, elevating her morally ambiguous brown-noser wheelhouse to a characterization that's nearly operatic.
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No bow, no curtain call, not even a clear ending — a perfect operatic assemblage of nonlinear relations.
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"Norma Jeane Baker," a theatre piece with operatic elements, exemplifies the risks of meet-cute art-making.
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As operatic good fortune might have it, Haly stumbles upon Isabella, a victim of a recent shipwreck.
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The result is a movie that, for all its operatic allusions and actorly expertise, feels dismayingly passionless.
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Yet though Barbie's operatic violence leans perilously close to parody, Schweighöfer's urbane-monster routine is wickedly diverting.
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Yet though Barbie's operatic violence leans perilously close to parody, Schweighöfer's urbane-monster routine is wickedly diverting.
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Rose's operatic highs and lows and Noah's indomitable on-court spark will be missed by basketball fans.
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" But they would close in another key entirely: with Jones as the star of an "Operatic Kaleidoscope.
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Up here the show's designers, the architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, have opted for a consciously operatic display.
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When "Porgy" is firmly ensconced in the realm of operatic make-believe, it gains a mythic breadth.
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Aliotti's style recalls the operatic Monteverdi at times, without ever reaching a similar level of sustained inspiration.
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Her coolly smoldering performance of this most famous operatic femme fatale showed she was more than ready.
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But her delivery, her stance, her very presence are operatic in the richest sense of the word.
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The end came in operatic fashion, befitting Mr. Scaramucci's namesake — a stock character in Italian musical theater.
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The Metal Gear Solid games, by contrast, try to convey stories of operatic scope and dizzying complexity.
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But Alicia Hall Moran, an operatic mezzo-soprano, is irreverent and gutsy and well outside any box.
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Karlsson, then a 27-year-old studying to be an operatic tenor, was no climate scientist or engineer.
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He composed more than 22 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music.
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Podemos in Spain recently lived through an operatic showdown between its radical leader and his more pragmatic deputy.
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"You know what people say, diplomacy only works within the range of your missiles," the operatic Zhou blusters.
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Few cards have had as striking an impact in creating new decks as Barnes, Karazhan's operatic stage manager.
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He sang in classic rock-operatic Jack Black style, and somewhere far away, Kyle shed a single tear.
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The X-movies have almost universally been dour, sometimes to operatic ends, and sometimes just to depressing ones.
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The operatic repertory keeps getting bigger, with most of the expansion at the two ends of the timeline.
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By crosscutting a crime of passion with a street singer's performance, Renoir elevates tawdry melodrama to something operatic.
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Also, the Democratic condemnations of McCain and Romney weren't as widespread and operatic as the ones of Trump.
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The music acts as emotional connective tissue, imbuing the images as they pass with an episodic, operatic quality.
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Lully's sacred music has a distinctly flamboyant, operatic character: the Te Deum is buttressed by trumpets and timpani.
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The S does it, however, without (and this is important!) the operatic mechanical note that the Ferrari sings.
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In the transitions from full-bodied operatic singing to crooning, Mr. Kaufmann's different levels of experience showed through.
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New to the Residenz Theater ensemble, she turns out a bloodcurdling, no-holds-barred performance of operatic intensity.
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DAVID ALLEN "Brokeback Mountain," Charles Wuorinen's operatic version of Annie Proulx's modern classic novella, is brooding, atonal, noble.
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This country-western parody of the operatic epic is set amid dining tables at a Manhattan barbecue restaurant.
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An operatic quarrel ensued at the summer home of a friend over a sweltering August weekend in 1987.
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At 50, Ms. Bartoli remains one of the world's top female voices, despite a highly unusual operatic career.
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It struck me as less like Chinese rap than a Chinese art/pop equivalent of Italian operatic patter.
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Laurence Connor (revival director) My memory of the original is it felt so big and epic and operatic.
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It works best when Davis commands the screen with her inimitable blend of psychological subtlety and operatic intensity.
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This venture follows upon National Sawdust's inventive operatic presentation "Orphic Moments" last year, featuring a triumphant Mr. Costanzo.
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Bohuslav Martinu's operatic masterpiece has never appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, but it's a masterpiece all the same.
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Consequently, neorealist photographs were produced as operatic retellings of the immediate past — dramatic, heroic, hubristic, and sometimes even farcical.
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Up until that point, we were on a run where robots and science fiction vistas meant raucous, operatic adventures.
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Bono, who was interviewed for the film, gave perspective on why the operatic legend's music is so remembered today.
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Though Gomer Pyle's voice was cartoonishly high and homespun, it belied another of Nabors' talents: as an operatic baritone.
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In temperament the two leaders could hardly be less alike: one brash and operatic, the other cautious and meticulous.
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They criticized her style, which then involved, sartorially, androgynous suits, and musically, operatic odes to her character Cindi Mayweather.
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The song ends with a cry of "Ay!" that Ms. Oropesa rightly dispatched with chilling, and decidedly operatic, intensity.
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Jacques Houdek, known as 'Mr Voice' in Croatia, blended pop and operatic singing styles in the song "My Friend".
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But the tale of a Victorian psychopath who slashed poor women to death is gory even by operatic standards.
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His breathtaking, operatic voice—one that even Elvis called the most beautiful he'd ever heard—communicated a profound tenderness.
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What do you get when you mix rock and roll spirit with operatic power and highly attuned acting skills?
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The trio kicked off their car ride by discussing Lovato and Jonas's soap-operatic 10-year-long friendship history.
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The whole property is linked together by an atmospheric, operatic soundtrack that is a work of art unto itself.
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There's no room to be tentative when you're planning a six-minute, chorus-less single with an operatic section.
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AK Paul-collaborated "Masquerade" marries new wave, 80s pop vocals with ones that suddenly soar into an operatic register.
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" After the 2018 election, President Donald Trump is said to have delivered an "operatic performance of grievances and pugilism.
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The look of Blade Runner was intricately connected to its deep moral questioning, all set against an operatic score.
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"We are a concert series that features all types of chamber music combinations including operatic repertoire," Ms. Yu said.
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Mr. Marthaler, an acclaimed Swiss theater director, brings a markedly musical, if not outright operatic, sensibility, to the project.
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Meyerbeer's expansion of operatic form into historic tragedy fusing music and theater was indispensable for Verdi and Wagner alike.
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This is a story of operatic complexity, narrated in many voices, rich in imagery, but sometimes poor in discipline.
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While Karl and Zita were settling in exile in Switzerland, their operatic counterparts were singing their hearts out onstage.
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"The Young Pope," Paolo Sorrentino's campy and operatic drama starring Jude Law, wraps up its limited run on HBO.
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The soap-operatic "Afterglow" doesn't even reach their level, although it has filled enough seats to extend its run.
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The six minutes of "Lark" move through regrets, fury, nostalgia, second thoughts, sensual memories, recriminations, solitude — an operatic catharsis.
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Season 2 also echoed the first in its early going before expanding and finding its own comic-operatic voice.
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With his jutting jaw, wavy hair, commanding size and operatic baritone voice, Mr. Irving was a formidable stage presence.
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The work doubles as a scene in the composer's seven-part operatic cycle, "Licht," written between 1977 and 2003.
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The most recent, "Witness," found Knuffke teaming up with the operatic baritone Steven Herring, plus two fellow jazz improvisers.
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Their 'song' was in fact a simple (but magical) salutation; "welcome" was intoned over and over in spectacular operatic harmony.
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He's a tool on a show with soap-operatic arcs and he needs to be a judgmental douche bag sometimes.
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This week, the museum will host an evening presentation of Sendak's iconic images, complete with live operatic performances as well.
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The operatic approach lines up with the album's themes of time, separations, love, and the immense pressure of being alive.
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There are some bangers on there, if "bangers" is an appropriate expression to apply to operatic goth rock from 2003.
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With this trio and other set pieces, Mr. Glass does create something with the outlines of old-fashioned operatic structure.
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Ms. Galás turned a wordless Albert Ayler melody, "Angels," into soaring phrases that merged Ayler's saxophone vibrato with operatic style.
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The fight sequences, as usual, are played at an operatic level, with an abundance of punches blocked by somebody's face.
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To fans who knew him only as Gomer, his full-throated, almost operatic baritone was surprisingly striking, if strangely incongruous.
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This operatic interpretation placed vocal beauty above all else, stripping the musical of its theatrical spirit and leaving me cold.
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But West Side Story lives and dies by its heightened, operatic emotions, but video only ever distances us from them.
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He has also pared down Visconti's screenplay to a brisk, intermissionless 90 minutes: It feels both operatic and emotionally intimate.
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Bigness — grand pronouncements, operatic dynamics, Mercury's soaring voice and Brian May's titanic guitar buildups — was the cornerstone of Queen's music.
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But the operatic world is really breaking this wall, and we have to thank the opera houses and casting directors.
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In memoriam: Jessye Norman, a Grammy Award-winning soprano, was a towering figure on the operatic, concert and recital stages.
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Two sopranos, both beautiful, vivid actresses in their mid-30s, have risen to operatic stardom over the past few years.
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His group collaborated often with the Asko Ensemble, which gave concerts and took part in film, dance and operatic projects.
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Mr. Kushner has dabbled in librettos, but operatic texts require concision — something you don't associate with his sweeping, capacious plays.
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THE OPERA IS DEDICATED TO Gerard Mortier, one of the great impresarios of modern operatic history, who died in 2014.
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The 1956 musical drama, with an acclaimed operatic score, will premiere this summer at Bard SummerScape in Annandale-on-Hudson.
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A former dancer with a yearning for the theatre, his style combines operatic spectacle with the sumptuous delights of fabric.
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What other place could possibly, under any circumstances, have invented the operatic and off-the-wall "Battle of the Iron Chef"?
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BRUCE MATHERS Zug, Switzerland Sing it loud and proud "Rope, knife, rose" (February 3rd) got the basic operatic storyline all wrong.
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" Tiffany Haddish would have also gotten her own operatic solo: "I peed on a zipline... Meryl Streep has never done that!
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Casting has been also been affected, as the performers with the best operatic voices have been sidelined for the more photogenic.
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What follows is an oral history of the production, Mr. Chéreau's operatic testament, from the people who created it with him.
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She graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University and received a master's degree in operatic vocal performance from the Manhattan School of Music.
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But that soap-operatic setup doesn't explain the intensity of her desire, which throws all other concerns out of the window.
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Benjamin had been looking to work with a librettist for years, despite his doubts about the viability of the operatic form.
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"Westworld" closed a chaotic second season with a finale that encapsulated it -- combining operatic highs, thoughtful dialogue and time-bending twists.
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"His singing was heartbreaking but not operatic," he continued, citing "Why Don't You Love Me," which opens and closes his movie.
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In 1956, Cecil B. DeMille took the familiar story and made a big, melodramatic epic that's more operatic than merely cinematic.
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And, sung by a high tenor, the stereotype of operatic arrogance, Mr. Trump (Thomas Segen) is portrayed as a sour blowhard.
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"The full-blooded, juicy movie experience has a lot of operatic qualities," he said in an interview after a rehearsal here.
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And season five — which unites season two's operatic story arcs with season three's consistency — is one of Buffy's three unimpeachable seasons.
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Ms. Rachvelishvili studied hard to learn operatic technique and drop the style that had served her well with Mariah Carey favorites.
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"My mother sang the same songs we perform with RAM, but with an operatic voice and an acoustic guitar," says Morse.
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As the mojitos and martinis flowed, and the laughter and dancing increased, the operatic karaoke night began to resemble ordinary ones.
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The soundtrack that will feature, at various points, a hip-hop M.C., an operatic vocalist, a black gospel choir, and others.
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Eagles swooped with bright red dots of blood on their talons, while dolphins glistened and tigers pounced in operatic slow motion.
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She went to New York to work as an operatic soprano and as a model with the John Robert Powers agency.
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As each dancer takes the stage, an M.C., an operatic vocalist, a black gospel choir and five musicians will improvise. Nov.
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As each dancer takes the stage, an M.C., an operatic vocalist, a black gospel choir and five musicians will improvise. Nov.
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Bernstein married emotional warmth to operatic bravura, and his capacious musical intelligence could synthesize Beethoven, bebop, mambo and Puerto Rican seis.
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Its emotions are more operatic, closer to a telenovela, especially when Ms. Barrio and the peacocking Juan Ogalla enter the round.
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Crescendos rise like tidal waves in this retro, string-laden torch song that carries girl-group drama to an operatic peak.
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It marked an operatic turn in Mr. Tillerson's tenure after months of reports that he would soon leave the Trump administration.
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The collection was named after the word for an elaborate operatic melody, and derived from the Latin word colorare (to color).
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That was an element I loved on those old records that I wanted to bring back—the more operatic female vocal.
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There is often a disorienting tension in his work, where the tough and the lyric, the operatic and the intimate converge.
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Mr. Panerai was widely admired throughout his 220-year operatic career for his full-bodied sound and the elegance of his singing.
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More likely, Foster is inspired by the executives who doubted that any radio station would play the six-minute operatic "Bohemian Rhapsody."
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His tenderest singing was reserved for a medley from "The Light in the Piazza," which revealed his facility at semi-operatic declamation.
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Her music was dense and operatic, based less on the hectic energy of sampling and more on immense, moody swells of synthesizer.
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"Die Tote Stadt," which had its première in 1920, when the composer was twenty-three, promised a long and triumphant operatic career.
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I think it's why opera is dying among the young, because the operatic dimensions of life are playing out in pop music.
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A donkey was filmed singing something akin to an operatic aria on Sunday — and you'll be blown away by her voice. Seriously.
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He has an ability to hit notes on an operatic range that is compelling in a way that is hard to explain.
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BERLIN — Siegfried, the dragon-slaying hero of Richard Wagner's monumental "Ring" cycle, is one of the most punishing operatic parts ever written.
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The story was immense and operatic — "The Godfather" in Ren Faire tunics — but its sundry subplots broke along comfortably familiar narrative formats.
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Operatic theatricality — one step over over-the-top — can short-circuit one's critical facilities, and despite being a critic I value that.
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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.
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Saturday could turn out to be a night in Covent Garden's history where a new operatic star just might have been born.
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A surreal Arctic thriller, a classic Los Angeles hard-boiled procedural and an operatic Mafia melodrama: Choose one or try all three.
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Basilio came across as the operatic prototype of a cynical, modern-day political operative whose repertory of dirty tricks has hardly dated.
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When she says that it seems as if he hasn't taken a shower in a while, he responds with operatic self-pity.
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Franz Liszt did not just write deliciously florid operatic piano transcriptions, but tried his hand at a couple of operas as well.
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But these once-renegade moves are now at risk of seeming like their own orthodoxy, prime targets for would-be operatic disrupters.
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The most transportive piece, however, is an operatic video by the collective AES+F, presented by Transfer in collaboration with Mobius Gallery.
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Since 203 Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg's operatic melodrama has been performed more than 53,000 times in 44 countries and 349 cities.
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More recently, he has focused on intensely dramatic themes, ranging from operatic productions to the honky-tonk spectacle of New York's Times Square.
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The most instantly recognizable voice in contemporary music, he opened a new chapter in operatic history, pushing the bounds of duration and abstraction.
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But Mr. Wang then stepped in with a withering lecture, delivered with operatic dudgeon, in which he called the journalist arrogant and prejudiced.
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John Darnielle is no stranger to near-operatic narratives, weaving tales of self-destructive couples and his own childhood into album-length stories.
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"We wanted it to have its own authenticity as a piece of operatic storytelling," said Matthew Shilvock, San Francisco Opera's new general director.
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The operatic pomposity of the build up, collapsing into that irresistible, gooey bassline—even now, it's a totally alluring, if completely ludicrous, proposition.
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Curtis, making her film debut, turned out to be a natural, delivering a persuasive performance of operatic panic that suggested a ferocious core.
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But the moments when, say, Wick says he worries about being damned are brushed aside by Stahelski's sheer skill at staging operatic action.
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But in Schumann's most operatic scene, in which Gretchen prays in church, plagued by guilt, a pantomime of props tells the full story.
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ANTHONY TOMMASINI AT 3 SECONDS A lack of dogma makes the score of Philippe Boesmans's new operatic setting of "Pinocchio" fun and fluid.
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Mr. Kaloyev finds his fictionalized counterpart in Nikolai Koslov, a man whose operatic despair becomes sublimated and bottlenecked into a quest for revenge.
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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.
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Nearly a century ago, homesick Italian immigrants flocked to small theaters in Little Italy for operatic renditions of medieval tales by such puppets.
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There was no shortage of operatic-scale drama in the building of the Metropolitan Opera House, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last season.
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"It doesn't have the operatic Sturm und Drang of a Ferrari or Lamborghini, but it really is an everyday supercar," Mr. Alterman said.
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The company, in other words, was a one-stop operatic shop, crucial from beginning to end of the process of composition and production.
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In a coup for the struggling Rome Opera, the film director Sofia Coppola will make her operatic debut there, the company announced this week.
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She had agreed to sing there as part of Carnegie Hall's Musical Connections program, but wasn't sure how an operatic voice would be received.
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Others receiving honors this year included a pair of Connollys: operatic soprano Sarah Connolly, 53, and Scottish stand-up comedian and actor Billy Connolly.
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Every company in Silicon Valley will tell you, with operatic grandeur, that it aims to change the world and make it a better place.
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Worst-case scenario: You hang out with the tech community, laugh at a few Chelsea Peretti jokes and enjoy the kick-ass operatic entertainment.
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For sheer exuberance, it is hard to beat BrazilBrazil's anthem, like Uruguay's, usually sounds as if it is a 19th-century operatic knock-off.
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Her philandering husband, played by Hugh Grant, has been hiding the truth from her, allowing his wife to think she is an operatic wonder.
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He's got a song that makes cooking crack sound operatic, and another that makes shaking hands at a party sound like a carnival trick.
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Roberto Rossellini turned the play into the second half of a movie, "L'Amore," in 1948, with a performance of operatic fervor from Anna Magnani.
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Sondheim's night music occupied a single house in wry waltz time; Lloyd Webber's the operatic basement in melodramatic swellings—musicals, still, of Gigantic Importance.
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Mr. Morrison noted that members of that cloistered world often have trouble distinguishing between the operatic dramas onstage and those in their daily lives.
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" In 1977 he founded the ensemble Concerto Vocale, and he began his career as an operatic conductor in 1983 with a rarity: Cesti's "L'Orontea.
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The finale couldn't match that operatic high, but it got the job done, and actually allowed the good guys to enjoy a decisive victory.
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When it hits the edge I belt out an operatic squeal, which surges into my microphone and sends the note careening over the chasm.
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Her vocal chords vibrate with ill will and secrets, lending Eye of Nix a certain operatic touch by way of grandiose, subversive 80s goth.
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Leon Botstein, the conductor and tireless champion of overlooked works, considers "Julietta" an operatic masterpiece that at least deserves a place in the repertory.
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Together with his wife, the operatic vocalist Alicia Hall Moran, he presented "Bleed," a five-day multidisciplinary performance residency, at the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
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For this climax of old-fashioned operatic thrills, they weren't even standing on the machine — as if they existed outside Mr. Lepage's production entirely.
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The range of idioms employed here veers between the cool objectivity of spoken docudrama and the intensely lyrical extremes of quasi-operatic mad scenes.
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He was attracted by his streetwise, irreverent approach and went to see the playwright, who proposed "Greek" as the most operatic of his plays.
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Bard SummerScape's main operatic offering is Anton Rubinstein's "Demon," a rarity from 1871 exhumed by that master of the forgotten, the conductor Leon Botstein.
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He sang about tragic love in an operatic falsetto, over orchestral timbres laced with sampled screams; he shrieked and cackled and brandished a whip.
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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.
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Succession transcended its already excellent "operatic soap about horrible rich people" roots in its second season, leaning more heavily into both comedy and tragedy.
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It takes the emotions of Annie Proulx's story of cowboy romance, also the source of the 2005 film, and elevates them to operatic levels.
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The operatic mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran and the pianist Jason Moran, a MacArthur fellow, like to think beyond the idea of multimedia performance.
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His current show On Achève Bien les Anges (They Shoot Angels, Don't They?), described as an "equestrian operatic ballet," features 16 of Waits's songs.
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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.
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"XENOS" is by turns classical, operatic and even Chaplinesque, as when Mr Khan's character tries to converse, through sound and body language, with a gramophone.
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Look, it's obvious that this show is heightened to operatic extremes and that nothing on Billions is black or white when it comes to morality.
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The film both revels in and issues a harsh critique against the pure artifice of tacky Hollywood cinematic sets, sleazy lighting, and awkward operatic backdrops.
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But its audacity gave us a film that was weird and operatic in a way that nine-figure superhero blockbusters rarely allow themselves to be.
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It transformed the original, mindless, story-less classic shooter of 1981 into a campy, wild, rambunctious, character-driven, operatic, and even at times emotional journey.
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Such a horse would be highly sought after for breeding, but there was an impediment: Gem Twist was a gelding — a castrato, in operatic parlance.
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Ms. Washington is best known for playing Olivia Pope in the emotionally operatic "Scandal," which makes her guarded, unpracticed Ms. Hill all the more impressive.
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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.
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So is it all that surprising that the operatic adaptation of Tony Kushner's play "Angels in America" was undertaken by a European master, Peter Eötvös?
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Given our setting at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, we plan on enjoying some operatic entertainment as part of the awards show.
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Sharon and his collaborators repurposed old film props—hand-painted backdrops, B-movie costumes, and the like—to create visual counterpoints to Cage's operatic kaleidoscope.
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Herndon's singing is full of operatic swells and icy whispers—it's what marks her music as intimate and human, despite the digital melee around her.
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When I started the Industry, it was really about trying to enrich the operatic landscape with composers I thought companies wouldn't give a chance to.
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He studied piano and composition under Erwin Leuchter, who had been Anton Webern's assistant, and heard the operatic repertoire under the baton of Fritz Busch.
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PARIS — Along with talent and determination, the path to operatic glory demands strong nerves, charm and charisma, good connections and a healthy dose of luck.
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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.
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Befitting the vaguely soap-operatic narrative of Ms. Shaw's life, Ms. Palmer happens to be Mr. Webber's wife and the mother of Isaac's half brothers.
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Since 27555 it has released two thrilling albums, full of big-shouldered groove, fine-grained harmonies and frothy improvising — as well as occasional operatic vocals.
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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.
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Since 2015 it has released two thrilling albums, full of big-shouldered groove, fine-grained harmonies and frothy improvising — as well as occasional operatic vocals.
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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.
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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.
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Bringing the old town to life in summer, the retreat holds a series of classical, jazz and operatic concerts in a 14th-century Romanesque church.
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In the late 240th century, when opera was becoming increasingly internationalized, Ms. Freni was hailed as a last exponent of the great Italian operatic heritage.
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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.
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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.
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Not since all the operatic, dog-fuelled action of John Wick Chapter 3 have I needed to watch a trailer again and again and again.
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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.
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Italy has been immersed in the operatic political drama at which it excels, only Friday swearing in a new government after inconclusive elections in March.
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On Tam Tam Tam you can hear this beautiful modal jazz type of sound, mixed with operatic vocal arrangements, and also with African-Brazilian percussion.
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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.
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The 10-year-old singing professional operatic soprano was irresistible and she became an instant star via the Facebook shares of delighted parents the nation over.
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O'Hara's theatrical chops seem to be particularly infectious; the entire cast takes a cue from her and goes beyond the traditional park-and-bark operatic style.
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The times we live in are more depressive than ever, and few films have gotten the operatic, dramatic, and mundane aspects of this sadness like Melancholia.
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Norman's 1990 collaboration with Kathleen Battle, "Spirituals in Concert," reveals how Norman blended the structure of her operatic performance with the improvisational style of the spiritual.
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The trailer alone showcases Mercury's unique style, impeccable stage presence and musical mind that fought for an "operatic section" in the middle of a rock song.
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Fleming, who is a youthful fifty-eight, has denied reports that she is retiring from the operatic stage, and she may return in a contemporary piece.
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Charlie Parker came into his own in the jazz clubs of Harlem, so there was undeniable poetry in his return to the neighborhood in operatic form.
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They might well console themselves with the possibility that her failure to do "realness" on an operatic scale is, by now, its own form of authenticity.
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A photo caption last Sunday with an article about the operatic soprano Anna Netrebko misstated the part of 57th Street on which Ms. Netrebko was photographed.
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The first seems more suited to operatic heroines (Brünnhilde, Norma) than to actual people, especially if those people are writers: Sontag, like most, was agonizingly insecure.
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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.
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John Ruskin invented his own language or at least his own self-devouring syntax, the prose (if that is what it is) hurtling, adamant and operatic.
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You can hear her speak in this recording with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in the Netherlands, in which her inflections are enchanting, poignant and utterly operatic.
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In its intimacy and directness, this beautifully small-scale performance by Tenet and the Sebastians was just as shattering as the Berlin Philharmonic's near-operatic approach.
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She has the operatic grandeur of public tragedy (she took over Versace after the murder of her brother, Gianni) and personal struggles (the drugs, the rehab).
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Performing as Circuit des Yeux, she pairs dense, foggy electronic soundscapes with acoustic instruments and lays her greatest musical asset — her rich, operatic baritone — on top.
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Warren was very strong on the issues — her passionate attacks on big oil, big pharma and big private prison operators have really gotten sort of operatic.
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The camera zooms in on the pen and a grand operatic soundtrack swells up and continues while the pen occupies the screen and nothing further happens.
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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.
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Mr. van Hove's operatic, mud-soaked "Electre/Oreste" finds psychological truth in Euripides' classical tragedies — with the help of a little choreography in lieu of CGI.
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Yet even at its grandest, most operatic heights, it's hard to escape the sheer amount of death John Wick deals out, sometimes just because it's easiest.
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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.
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Strauss's operatic empress was actually a goddess by birth and therefore could not cast a shadow, which meant that she was unable to bear human children.
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A singer and electronic musician born Nika Roza Danilova, she performed over stout but muted beats, her voice almost operatic, but also querying and non-definitive.
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A multiple Grammy Award winner, Ms. Norman, pictured above at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1989, was a towering figure on operatic, concert and recital stages.
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Stanley Tucci and Audra McDonald are the excitable harpsichord and the operatic wardrobe; Ewan McGregor and Ian McKellen are the suave candelabra and the anxious clock.
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And he said he wanted to bring a grittier reality to this season, losing some of the operatic feel the series has possessed in the past.
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ANTHONY TOMMASINI I can't say I thought much of Mr. Previn's operatic adaptation of "A Streetcar Named Desire" when it was new, in the late 1990s.
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Co-creator Baz Luhrmann infuses The Get Down with his trademark sense of operatic spectacle, and the music — which is largely background soundtrack — is a critical component.
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As Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart knew so well, and illustrated in opuses such as "The Marriage of Figaro" and "Così fan tutte", quartets are a perfect operatic tool.
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Most recently, the Cincinnati Opera is staging an operatic adaptation of Fellow Travelers, based on a 2007 historical novel addressing government-sanctioned homophobia written by Thomas Mallon.
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To Nair's credit, she doesn't play these events as operatic tragedies; they're the backdrop of a normal life for people growing up with limited resources and options.
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The wild evening was a stark reminder of the way ego and outsize personalities have turned a traditionally staid political party into an unpredictable and operatic production.
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STYLES SA photo caption last Sunday with an article about the operatic soprano Anna Netrebko misstated the part of 2800th Street on which Ms. Netrebko was photographed.
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MUNICH — From Pablo Picasso to David Hockney and from Jean Cocteau to Marc Chagall, celebrated painters and visual artists have worked their magic on the operatic stage.
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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.
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An orchestra of at least 22013 players was reduced to an ensemble of 18, creating leaner textures and encouraging a less, well, operatic singing and acting style.
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Though he found moments to let phrases soar with operatic splendor, Mr. Flórez brought a touch of cabaret crooner to his lovely performances of these intimate songs.
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"We will use the space to defy normal operatic convention to present what I call 'unconventional opera,' " Perryn Leech, the company's managing director, said in a statement.
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Themes of bodily autonomy (or lack thereof), chaos and order, fear and resilience, and outsiderness around gender and race are deftly conveyed in punchy yet operatic lines.
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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.
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He also said he had worried that as the artists worked, the 69th floor would be the scene of soap-operatic dramas driven by egos and tempers.
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ANTHONY TOMMASINI 'KAT'A KABANOVA' After sustained, brilliant advocacy over the past 25 years or so, the Czech composer Leos Janacek's position in the operatic repertory is secure.
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The Times report put Pence in similar peril, so he pushed back with an operatic outrage that showed just how close to the bone it had cut.
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"Drowning," a compact but notable addition to Mr. Glass's substantial operatic oeuvre, has been paired with "Mud," another work obsessed with infirmity and distinctly unquenchable romantic hopes.
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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.
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Out of respect, though, he did not quote any existing music, but rather wrote his own songs and spirituals, folding them into a lengthy, ambitious operatic score.
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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.
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Now it has been taken up by Opera Philadelphia, which in recent years has proven to have some of the smartest operatic programming on the East Coast.
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The pianist Mitsuko Uchida has long been associated with Mozart, a composer she performs with elegance, clarity and a crystalline touch, the melodic lines unfolding with operatic warmth.
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Or at least that's what Gilfry, playing an unnamed pianist with his hair slicked back, a full tuxedo on his frame, brooded on throughout his hour operatic monologue.
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The two-man scene is nigh operatic, perfectly cross-cutting between close-ups of anguished faces and mid-range action beats, so that every punch has an impact.
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Whatever the hell it is—it's been called liturgical power electronics, operatic brutalism, beautified death industrial, 'Girl Swans,' whatever —I'm grateful that people respond to it at all.
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It's the kind of operatic rise and fall that's irresistibly voyeuristic, the young beauty corrupted by fame, burning out as fantastically as a falling star (or "Star Maiden").
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The film moves through a post-industrial landscape scored by a DJ spinning trap music to operatic overtures sung by Black vocalists (including the artist's brother Miles Wadlington).
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Rather than referencing, recreating, or replicating theatrical or operatic performance in a literal manner, the artworks included turn our gaze to the architectural space and its physical trappings.
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Claire Molek: It's an opera delivered by text, so already we're subverting this idea of the very pretentious, sophisticated operatic space and putting it in a text message.
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But with all of Italy's major opera houses except two posting a deficit, there's little incentive for an angel-voiced Italian to embark on an operatic singing career.
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Queen's 1975 classic is quite the operatic odyssey, and as many people know, it's the perfect song to lose your voice to after a few drinks at karaoke.
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Mr. Dolan, in his family drama, seems to be trying for the operatic excesses that sometimes work for Pedro Almodóvar, with a touch of John Cassavetes thrown in.
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His operatic career was marked by soaring highs (nearly 700 home runs and three Most Valuable Player awards) and nefarious lows (two revelations of performance-enhancing drug use).
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With a phone in each hand, his eyes darting from the dining room to the computer, Mr. Lemonides juggled reservations while welcoming walk-ins with his operatic laughter.
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Meanwhile, vocalist Dave Hunt's vicious growls and shrieks alternate with an operatic singing voice that calls to mind beloved classic metal singers like Rob Halford or King Diamond.
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His son has an operatic voice and is a frequent "ringer" at the Gridiron Club's annual dinner, playing prominent politicians as part of the journalists' spoofs and skits.
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He did a wonderful impression of the abrupt and operatic unraveling of a Sinatra-like charmer who turns into a sniveling, despairing depressive after a single lost bet.
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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.
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There has always been a touch of the operatic in the theater work of Mr. van Hove, whose style thrives on maximalism even when his settings are austere.
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All it takes to see an operatic range of emotions is to consider getting up and heading in the general direction of outside, and then decide against it.
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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.
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And I wanted a chance for our sound department, the guys at Skywalker Sound, to really shine and do something that was almost operatic with just sound alone.
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Mr. Gedda made his operatic debut at 26, as the coachman Chapelou in "Le Postillon de Lonjumeau," by the French composer Adolphe Adam, with the Royal Swedish Opera.
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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.
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In that context, a movie in which a woman's rage is portrayed as operatic, in which Frances McDormand's speeches are less like rants than like arias, is immensely cathartic.
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It isn't just a single-story movie, it's a kind of wide-ranging, almost soap-operatic check-in on an immense cast of characters up to their own adventures.
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Courtly gallantry, sexual torment, and the instincts of the Vegas entertainer make Flowers an oddly operatic figure, and the vaguely antiquated high-camp tone that defines the album fascinates.
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Some villains are bent on operatic revenge, some long to watch the world burn, and some seem to show up because the heroes would have nothing to do otherwise.
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The Briton's German rival had reminded reporters before the race that his tenuous title hopes were not over until the operatic diva had sung, as the popular saying goes.
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They're all slightly different; operatic vocals, loads of guitar harmonies, octavated leads, maybe a few synths and orchestral instruments, loads of double bass drums, dragons and all that business.
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Shot in a single take, Arca is set against thrilling pink backdrop, struggling to stand on two feet as he goes through the motions of the operatic new track.
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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.
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There is a marvelously sprightly, loose and intuitive feel about Twombly's operatic paintings that manages to merge mythic, classical intellectualism with a Dionysian sensual immoderation that verges on shit.
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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.
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Part 2, the slow movement of this operatic symphony, features a soprano (Evgeniya Sotnikova) singing with warmth and tenderness as Hadewijch, a 13th-century Dutch mystic nun and poet.
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From a soap operatic viewpoint, think about how incredible this would be, particularly if the Cavaliers made it back to the Finals for a rematch against Jackson's former team.
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In his book, Michael Jackson: The Secret of a Voice, French vascular surgeon (and opera fan) Alain Branchereau alleges that the singer's voice was that of an operatic castrato.
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"We've got this great opera star, starring in a silent film," David Schroeder, the author of "Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure: The Operatic Impulse in Film," said in an interview.
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