Sentences with phrase «american soprano»

, orchestrating complicated choreography, or doing a soulful duet with Judith Hill, the beautiful African - Asian - American soprano who would later sing Heal the World shortly thereafter at his funeral.

«Bel Canto» centers on Roxane Coss (Moore), a famous American soprano, who travels to South America to give a private concert at the birthday party of a Japanese mogul (Watanabe).

The fictional studio's name comes from Cathy Berberian, the American soprano, wife of Italian electronics pioneer Lucio Berio.

In his operas, Giuseppe Verdi had a knack for empowering marginalized people — like the title character of Aida, who is an enslaved Ethiopian princess (played in this 2011 French production by American soprano Indra Thomas).

Not exact matches

It was the year 2000, and David Chase, the creator of The Sopranos and one of the most influential American artists of the past 50 years, had had an epiphany.

Take this one, devoted to the 10th anniversary of the last episode of The Sopranos, that includes two Wagyu beef patties, fried gabagool, deep fried ravioli, meatballs, garlic aioli, and Parmesan and American cheese.

The turn began around the start of the new century when HBO's The Sopranos pushed Americans to question whether something had to be dumber just because it was on a smaller screen.

Tentatively titled The Young Pope, Sorrentino envisions a complex, compelling drama about a scandal - ridden Vatican helmed by a flawed, fictitious American pope in the vein of Tony Soprano and Walter White — so it sounds like it'll be very non-controversial and nobody will have any complaints about it at all.

The Sopranos dares instead to explore the terrible banality of evil, depicting ordinary people held prisoner by their habits and appetites who choose hell instead of heaven over and over again, not with a satanic flourish but with an all - American sense of entitlement.

There could be dissertations written about Andrew Cuomo and the prevalence of toxic Italian - American masculinity though, for the latter, it's both more fun and a better use of your time to just re-watch The Sopranos.

Steve Gorn has performed Indian classical music and new American music on the bansuri bamboo flute and soprano saxophone in concerts and festivals throughout the world.

American actor Frank Vincent, one of the stars of «The Sopranos» and a frequent collaborator with director Martin Scorsese, has died at the age...

Just when you think «Goodfellas», «The Sopranos» and the Godfather trilogy have taught us everything we could conceivably want to know about Italian - American swellguys, along comes a movie that shows us another side to them: the ability to lend a hand at the local chippie.

American socialite and soprano Florence Foster Jenkins is the subject of this elegant French drama.

The Horizon jury is headed by Ann Hui, with Israeli actress Moran Atias, Swedish actress and director Pernilla August, American director and writer David Chase (The Sopranos), Chad director Mahamat - Saleh Haroun, Italian director Roberto Minervini and Turkish film critic Alin Tasciyan.

The boys aren't bad either, and, in addition to Phoenix, it's exhilarating to recognise, in various disguises, hairdos and toupees, actors that have shaped both American independent cinema, Hollywood and / or cable television (The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire) for the last twenty years: Owen Wilson offers an understated performance as a former saxophone player who has to fake his death; the always impeccable Martin Donovan is a lawyer for the Golden Fang (he's also, by the way, Japonica's father, which serves him right); Benicio del Toro shines as the man passing as «Doc's lawyer»; Josh Brolin drew a lot of kudos for his performance as Doc's nemesis, an LAPD detective nicknamed Bigfoot with the bad habit of kicking people's door and dreams of making it to the big screen; Martin Short; Eric Roberts, Michael Kenneth Williams etc...

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The real P.T. Barnum was 60 when he got into the circus business, following careers as a freak show entrepreneur, a museum owner, and a concert promoter for the legendary Swedish soprano Jenny Lind in her first American tour.

In Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss has given perhaps the finest female dramatic performance on American television this side of Edie Falco in The Sopranos, and this simple exchange contains everything that makes her Peggy so fascinating and affecting — the unexpected cadences and pauses, the precise line readings, and her face, on the cusp of either smile or frown, dominated by her wide, soulful eyes, which seem constantly to search for, connect with, and then avert those of her scene partner.

As for the American shows, well long - running mob series The Sopranos pretty much dominates the field with 15 nominations after airing its final episode in the States last month.

As Tony Soprano, Gandolfini created a gangster different from any previously seen in American television or film.

At their recent exhibition at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Fault Lines, Allora & Calzadilla worked with trebles — boys who sing as sopranos until puberty when their voices break — from the American Boychoir School and Transfiguration Boychoir.

Orchestre National de Lyon Music Director Leonard Slatkin Conducts First American Tour Since 2003 Soprano Renée Fleming and Baritone Thomas Hampson, Soloists at Carnegie Hall on February 20, 2017 US Premiere of Celephaïs by Guillaume Connesson, ONL Associate Composer Antar, Incidental Music by Ravel after Works by Rimsky - Korsakov, with New Text by Amin -LSB-...]