Sentences with phrase «become opera singers»

The 15 - year - old sisters want to go to the same university and become opera singers.

Of course, innate aptitude plays a big role in what any one of us can achieve (for instance, I could practice all day, every day for the next 100 years and never become an opera singer — «Happy Birthday» might even remain a challenge).

In this film, Meryl Streep plays Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer despite having a terrible singing voice.

What It's About: «The story of Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep), a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice and her husband and manager, an aristocratic English actor who was determined to protect her from the truth.»

Streep stars in the upcoming Florence Foster Jenkins comedy, which is based on the true story of an eccentric New York socialite who dreams of becoming an opera singer in the»40s.

Meryl Streep has been widely praised for her turn as the 1940s New York heiress who couldn't sing (and we mean really couldn't sing) yet somehow became an opera singer with the help of her patient husband St Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) and pianist Cosme McMoon (Simon Helberg).

-- 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.

Leontyne Price, a black girl born in 1927, had an impossible dream: to become an opera singer.

To further his career prospects (he was a talented singer and hoped to become an opera singer), he sought a variation of the consent order to fund the final year at Leeds and a two year post graduate course at the Royal College of Music or the Guildhall School of Music in London.

Not exact matches

Now Jeannie Williams has written a biography of the great singer useful not only for its portrait of Vickers and the life behind the opera curtain but also for the way it demonstrates» despite Williams» clear affection for her subject» how Christians and Christian issues are becoming increas ingly exotic to the chatty class.

The Guardian: Church of England prepares for vote on female bishops On the evening of 11 November 1992, Rosie Harper was a professional opera singer listening to the radio and absorbing the news that the Church of England, after years of struggle and indecision, had decided to allow women to become priests.

If you want to become an author, a screenwriter, an opera singer, an actor, have conviction.

Based on the extraordinary true story of Andrea Bocelli, a blind boy, who against all odds becomes one of the most world renowned opera singers.

The film, which cast her as a small - town girl whose best friend makes the big time by becoming a celebrated opera singer, provided McAdams with her breakout role, and she soon set her sights on Hollywood.

Official Synopsis: Academy Award winner Meryl Streep delivers a «hilarious and touching» performance as a New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer.

It treats him as a standard - issue poor boy who made good, yet still let pride get the better of him, by over-expanding his business, and by becoming so infatuated with Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind (Rebecca Ferguson of «Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation») that he jeopardized his otherwise sublime marriage to Charity (Michelle Williams), mom of his two adorable daughters (Austyn Johnson and Cameron Seely).

• She loves opera but never explored becoming a singer «because I'm a monotone.

Cain was once a singer, with aspirations to opera, and here, one of his novels became a movie vehicle for Mario Lanza — a superb natural tenor, whose own meteoric career and untimely death might make a good film noir.

A biopic telling the story of Paul Potts, a Welsh cellphone salesman and amateur opera singer who became an overnight sensation via the reality TV series «Britain's Got Talent.»

Andrea Bocelli -(born September 22, 1958) opera singer Dr. Jacob Bolotin -(1888 - 1924) First blind doctor Ray Charles -(September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004) American pianist and musician Jose Feliciano (born 1945) American singer Thomas Gore (December 10, 1870 - March 16, 1949) American senator Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) American author, activist, and lecturer David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) New York governor Marla Runyan (born January 4, 1969) marathon runner James Thurber (December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961) American cartoonist Erik Weihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) mountain climber Stevie Wonder (born May 13, 1950) American singer - songwriter Others who became visually impaired: W.C. Handy (1873 - 1958) Blues composer - went blind in middle age Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642) Astronomer Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) French painter Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) American president Harriet Tubman (c.1820 - March 10, 1913) American slave and slave freer

In particular, there's a ghostly opera singer that is already becoming quite a sensation,» Babich said.

She began her career as an opera singer, which has since become the foundation for the visual and performative works she creates.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Diego was a professional opera singer, performing at leading venues around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Turin Royal Opera and at the Shanghai World Expo.