Sentences with phrase «as opera star»

But when you make your living as an opera star - well, that's a different story.

As opera star Jessye Norman tells CNBC that she once considered running for Congress, we look at some of the famous faces who dabbled in politics.

Not exact matches

Your baby doesn't care whether you are completely tone deaf or an opera star, just as long as he or she hears the comforting sound of your voice.

She has also been rehearsing all night for a production of The Who's Tommy, a rock opera starring a pinball wizard as the classic nerd — socially isolated, extremely talented in a single area.

«I wish we, as designers, could influence... fashion as much as the soap opera stars [here] do.

Back in the U.S., Hagman began to make progress in his career, tallying up several TV guest - star appearances (including, presciently, a smiling villain on an episode of Sea Hunt), a regular role as lawyer Ed Gibson on the daytime soap opera The Edge of Night, and a beautifully played supporting role as a Russian / English interpreter in the nuclear nailbiter Fail Safe.

Trading slightly on the actor's own longtime status as a taken - for - granted utility player in Hollywood, Elliott plays Lee Hayden, a has - been western actor relegated to voiceover work, smoking pot, and private re-watches of his big movie moment as the steely - eyed star of a famous horse opera called «The Hero.»

She first appeared on the big screen in 2006 with a small role in the film ACCEPTED and later had a starring role as Brooke Crawford in the primetime soap opera WICKED WICKED GAMES, which was her first appearance on the small screen.

Four years later in 2004, her starring performance as Christine in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA earned her a Golden Globe ® Award nomination, as well as the National Board of Review's Best Female Breakthrough Performance» Award and the Broadcast Film Critics Association's Best Young Actress Award in 2005.

What would seem to be your garden - variety soap opera is elevated to a toney costumed epic starring Cate Blanchett again as the queen.

In addition, Dustin Hoffman's directing debut, «Quartet,» starring Ms. Smith as a former opera star settling into a group home, was released late last year to positive reviews.

«Interview» (July 13): Steve Buscemi is back as a director and starring as a political journalist who is forced to interview America's top soap opera star (Sienna Miller) by his editor as punishment.

As writer and director, Lucas unabashedly uses «Star Wars» to pay tribute to all the grand adventure films ever made, be they westerns, swashbucklers, fantasies or space operas.

Johnny Guitar: Olive Signature (Olive, Blu - ray, DVD), directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge as frontier entrepreneurs in a war of wills, is dense with psychological thickets and political reverberations, designed with color both expressive and explosive, and directed with the grace of a symphony and the drama of an opera.

But what makes the film more than a mere vengeance flick is that it is actually a fairy tale disguised as a humble western in the same way that the Star Wars franchise is actually a space opera about a son redeeming his father who fell from grace.

Other highlights in this section include: the European Premiere of Choi Dong - hoon's colourful period bullet opera, ASSASSINATION; the European Premiere of Daniel Junge's thrill - a-minute BEING EVEL about the legendary daredevil Robert Craig «Evel» Knievel; the European Premiere of David Farr's crafty and suspenseful study in paranoia, THE ONES BELOW starring David Morrissey and Clémence Poésy; Atom Egoyan's latest drama REMEMBER, offering a provocative study of the nature of evil as well as serving as a stark reminder of the atrocities of 20th century history, starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau; Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna's gripping documentary STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN & LE MANS, featuring unseen archive footage, contemporary interviews and previously unheard commentary from McQueen himself; Stephen Fingleton's thrilling, post-apocalyptic debut THE SURVIVALIST; Sebastian Schipper's exhilarating one - shot sensation, VICTORIA; and THE WAVE, Roar Uthaug's high - octane and nerve - shredding portrayal of a potential catastrophe.

Meryl Streep stars as the famously terrible opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins, a twentieth - century American heiress who used her wealth to pursue her dream of professional singing despite being tone deaf.

While Steinfeld, who earned an Oscar nomination for her role in 2010's «True Grit,» is also an established name — even at the age of 17 — the same can't be said of those three actors reportedly in contention to play Cyclops: Hardy is best known as the latest actor to portray Peter Beale on the long - running U.K. soap opera «EastEnders»; Chalamet had recurring roles on «Royal Pains» and «Homeland,» and appears in «Interstellar»; and Rowe currently stars on the Fox series «Red Band Society.»

by Walter Chaw A deep cut for Star Wars fanatics, Gareth Edwards's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story also happens to be the single most topical fiction of 2016, talking as it does — in bold, melodramatic strokes befitting a space opera — about the importance of rebellion in the face of fascism.

Though Altman's films compare with Coppola's as chamber music does with grand opera, their work in the 1970s exemplifies what ultimately became the prevailing style of American film direction in that era: maverick resistance to studio - imposed time and budget constraints, insistence on directorial authorship, reliance on location shooting, use of improvisational acting, an emphasis on ensemble playing rather than star performances, Fordian gatherings — weddings, church services, parties, dinners — as exponents of group character (both Altman and Coppola had Catholic upbringings), and a revisionist approach to the mythic archetypes of the Hollywood genre film.

The Moderate Soprano will star Roger Allam as John Christie, the war hero and producer who aimed to lift the nation's spirits by building an opera house on his own estate

Instead, he returned to theatre work (including Getting Out and Flux) as well as small TV roles, in soap operas such as Search For Tomorrow, which also featured a number of other would - be stars, such as Viggo Mortenson, Kevin Kline and Angela Bassett.

Jim Broadbent and Allan Corduner star as Gilbert and Sullivan, who, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting a major production of their comic opera.

In theaters everywhere is Jupiter Ascending, the spectacular new sci - fi space opera creation from Lana & Andy Wachowski (of The Matrix trilogy, Bound, Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas) starring Channing Tatum as wolf - hybrid Caine and Mila Kunis as Jupiter.

Now in postproduction, it stars, uh, Mel Gibson as an ex-con trying to protect his estranged daughter (Erin Moriarty) from drug dealers (in New Mexico again) and co-stars William H. Macy, Diego Luna, and Michael Parks... Ewan McGregor and Mandy Patinkin will star in Phillip Noyce's adaptation of Philip Roth's 1997 novel American Pastoral in which a Jewish - American businessman's world is upended when Vietnam War activist daughter carries out a terrorist act... Meryl Streep will play opera diva Maria Callas in a new HBO movie...

The force was strong with Star Wars fans on Friday as they celebrated May 4th in style on social media with memes, quotes and pictures in honour of the beloved sci - fi space opera.

The title stands for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a short - lived 1980s TV show of which I have no memory whatsoever, and it stars Alison Brie (Community, Mad Men) and Betty Gilpin (Nurse Jackie) as L.A. - based actresses - turned - wrestlers whose major conflict is outside the ring, and comedian Marc Maron as the down - on - his - luck movie director who hires them to be part of an all - woman wrestling show that's as much soap opera as it is fighting.

Alison Brie (Community, Mad Men) and Betty Gilpin (Nurse Jackie) star as L.A. actresses - turned - wrestlers whose major conflict is outside the ring, and comedian Marc Maron as the down - on - his - luck movie director who hires them to be part of an all - woman wrestling show that's as much soap opera as it is fighting.

A super-concentrated packet whose features have the precision of an X-Acto knife, Natalie Portman literally and figuratively blasted out of the box as a pubescent punkette assassin in The Professional (1994) and hasn't taken a breather since, working with the top stratum of directors in a carousel of genres ranging from costume drama (The Other Boleyn Girl) to space opera (the Star Wars prequel trilogy), to mirror - splintering psychodrama (Black Swan, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role).

-- Paramount Pictures has landed distribution rights to Stephen Frears» «Florence Foster Jenkins,» starring Streep as a New York heiress and socialite who pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer despite having a terrible voice.

During intermissions, both the San Francisco and New York operas present backstage interviews, talking not only with stars but also with unseen cast members, such as animal trainers, to demystify opera.

History is told through the lives of two Peking opera stars, starting with the two characters meeting at an intense Peking opera training school as young children.

Playing as the Pathfinder, a soldier / explorer hybrid in a quest to find humanity a new home amongst the stars, Mass Effect: Andromeda is the next chapter in Bioware's sprawling space opera epic.

Elizabeth Peyton's portraits of androgynous punk rockers, celebrities, friends, and opera stars are usually credited with presaging renewed critical interest in a type of painting that used to be dismissed as shallow.

Alphonse Mucha and Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec developed the potential of color lithography to meet the demands of these stars, while fine artists ranging from Edgar Degas and Édouard Manet to Pablo Picasso and Édouard Vuillard focused on such spectacles as the racetrack, ballet, café - concert, theater, and opera, asserting them as defining elements of Parisian modernity in this image - saturated milieu.