Sentences with phrase «by opera singer»

Burton and Nitta debuted this intriguing, biotechnological concept last year at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, where the carbon dioxide breathed by an opera singer is used to feed algae, which can be in turn eaten by humans.

The Hole Gallery hosted a live performance piece by Tara Subkoff starring Selma Blair and Caroline Vreeland, «Synaptic Fatigue / Dear in the Headlights» saw 15 actresses and performers including a moving vocal performance by opera singer Rebecca Ringle who sang four songs over the course of the hour - long show.

There were performances by opera singer Enrico Caruso and dancers Anna Pavlova and Isadora Duncan.

Once owned by an opera singer, Marty can trill notes with the best of them, but won't do it for just anyone.

Read our complete recap, from the first people in the predawn line to announcements by ceo Kevin Johnson to a grand finale by opera singers from La Scala.

The work anticipated some of the interests that Fluxus artists would soon begin exploring in New York and Europe in the 1960s, and it feels very much in tune with works by young contemporary artists like Ragnar Kjartansson, who in 2011 staged a critically acclaimed 12 - hour performance of the denouement of Mozart's «The Marriage of Figaro,» by opera singers.

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Morley & Outwood is where Ed Balls suffered the biggest humiliation of the 2015 election, losing by a whisker of 422 to Tory opera singer Andrea Jenkyns.

Andrea Jenkyns, a former music teacher and amateur opera singer, was a high - profile winner for the Conservatives, taking Ed Balls» Morley and Outwood seat after being prompted to run for parliament by the death of her father from MRSA contracted in hospital.

Like novice opera singers, young male songbirds first learn their songs by imitating other males.

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is a magnificent music arena, frequented by symphonies, opera singers, and other similar ensembles - perfect for beginning a romance.

This is listed as a western comedy and I guess it did have a funny part or two, but its just a good story, A opera singer comes into town, she is not your typical opera singer by no mean, not big boned, fat or big busted, no this women is beautiful, and two brothers who can't stand each other start a quarrel over her.

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.

Synopsis: Aging opera singer Maria Callas (Fanny Ardant) tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's «Carmen.»

In a highly unusual bit of casting, the art scholar is played not by a professional actor, but by a famous opera singer, William Shimmel.

Woody Allen plays Jerry, a retired «avant guarde» opera director who discovers his daughters new father in law, Giancarlo (played by tenor Fabio Armiliato), is a natural opera singer — but only in the shower.

Gracey and screenwriters Bill Condon and Jenny Bicks don't make much of the connection between current popular culture and Barnum's hoax - heavy sideshows, even when they underline his attempts to go legit by presenting Jenny Lind (Rebecca Ferguson), a Swedish opera singer.

He called the Golden Globes «one of the few places left where America still honors the popular vote,» cracked that «in 12 days» we are going to find out what it would be like if Game of Thrones» King Joffrey lived, and joked that even Florence Foster Jenkins, the terrible opera singer recently played by Meryl Streep, wouldn't agree to perform at the inauguration.

Quartet (PG - 13 for profanity and suggestive humor) Dustin Hoffman directed this musical drama set at a home for retired opera singers where plans for the annual concert celebrating Verdi's birthday are complicated by the arrival of a pampered diva (Maggie Smith).

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).

The gala also features a wonderful aria performed by famed opera singer Gwyneth Jones.

At a home for retired opera singers, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.

These projects join a list of already announced films, including the Ricky Gervais - directed Life on the Road, which takes up the story of The Office's David Brent, and Florence Foster Jenkins, starring Meryl Streep and directed by Stephen Frears, about the notoriously awful opera singer.

American Idol this is not, but it is a look into the life of one of the worst opera singers to ever live, a woman who many believed had no right being on stage driven by her own confidence and the politeness of those closest to her.

He vows to avenge the premature death of his beloved mother who dies in poverty after being ostracised by her family for marrying below her station, after eloping with an Italian opera singer.

At a home for retired opera singers, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of an eternal diva... the former wife of one of the residents.

Bond star Daniel Craig and opera singer Katherine Jenkins have joined a campaign to raise cash for Britain's elderly by donating their coats for...

Starring Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson, and Nina Arianda, the story centers on the titular woman, an heiress and socialite, who was an astonishingly terrible opera singer, who was blind to her own lack of talent, and pursued a career anyway, all while being protected from the truth by her devoted manager.

Married six times, four times to wealthy husbands, the lavish promotion of the Polish opera singer's lackluster career by her fourth husband served as the inspiration of Citizen Kane.

Built on 160 acres in 1916 by Union Carbide founder, George Owen Knapp, the castle was sold in 1940 to Frances Holden who invited her friend and world famous opera singer, Lotte Lehmann to move in.

Five years prior to the game's beginning, a young thirteen year - old girl witnesses her opera singer older sister and an entire audience vanish into thin air, leaving her the sole survivor and forever traumatised by the event.

In the case of Tosca, our Work of the Week, the song in question is «Vissi d'arte» from the Puccini opera Tosca, in which the title character, «the opera singer with the eyes of black, threatened with rape by her lover's imprisoner, sings of her life dedicated to art and love, [then] fights him off and kills him,» explains Schimmel Gold, who set out to capture the «despair and overwhelming emotions» of the tragic heroine.

«He was an opera singer, and his painting was influenced by music, especially his more abstract work,» Skolnik says.

Inspired by a Joyce Carol Oates story about a woman who writes unanswered letters to movie stars and opera singers, Roberta was a lonely fictitious character who interacted with real people on the streets of San Francisco.

In the courtyard of the palace, the visitor is greeted by their 2007 piece Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech), an imposing sculpture in which opera singers perform passages from the most significant speeches of the 20th Century — from Martin Luther King to Nikita Khrushchev.

The primary challenge of any William Kentridge monograph might seem to be getting images on the page to represent the South African artist's oeuvre, which spans performance by puppets and opera singers, immersive film installations, stereoscopic and anamorphic drawings, crank - activated kinetic sculptures that play music (recently on view at Marian Goodman in New York), and virtuosic charcoal - on - paper animations.

The keen retrospective eye of the curators has thrown up a rewarding mix of the mainstream and the obscure, and it is worth the ticket price solely for the video of German opera singer Klaus Nomi performing Lightning Strikes in an over shoulder - padded, shiny tuxedo.Highlights include the subversive designs of the Italian collectives Studio Alchymia and Memphis; graphics by Peter Saville and Neville Brody; the original presentation drawing for Philip Johnson's AT&T building (1978); paintings by Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol; Jeff Koons» stainless steel bust of Louis XIV (1986); performance costumes, including David Byrne's big suit from the documentary Stop Making Sense (1984); excerpts from films such as Derek Jarman's The Last of England (1987); and music videos featuring Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones and New Order.Catalogue offerSave # 8 on the exhibition catalogue with your National Art Pass.

Omari Tau is a singer with opera, jazz, avant - garde classical, musical theater, and R&B music in his blood furthered by study in composition and contemporary vocal interpretation.

Accompanied by eight pianists, the tenor Kristján Jóhansson, a group of Icelandic opera singers, and Kjartansson himself will perform Schubert's song An die Musik (1817) in excessive repetition.

They require so little from contemporary art, or so it seems to me, that they are prepared to help over the admittedly modest stile to victory one artist who produces lame conceptual objects, another whose installation is like a solemn sixth - form project, a third whose composition for six opera singers has startling characteristics purely as a piece of music, and a collective of 15 architects, all highly gifted but themselves bemused by the shortlisting, given the existence of (just for instance) the Stirling prize.

The performance will feature a dynamic collaboration between Miami musicians, renowned opera singer Stefanos Koroneos and several NYC - based vogue dancers, all coordinated by Mr. Newsome.

On her website, which includes a number of glamorous headshots, Makhnevich is described as «a talented and imaginative dentist and an opera singer who is driven by an incredible passion for self - expression through art.»

Her most recent book, for example, is based on diaries kept by her grandmother, an opera singer turned missionary's wife in 1920s Siam, now Thailand.

The elegant evening included 110 guests and highlighted a performance by accomplished opera singer Tonia Cianciulli, who is Evans» daughter.