Sentences with phrase «first opera»

They helped to start the first opera - class symphony orchestra in Tokyo.

In September 2009, Zhang Huan will directhis first opera, Semele (by George Frideric Handel), at La Monnaie, Brussels, 8, 10, 12, 18, 29, 22, 24, 27 & 29 September 2009, LaMonnaie de Munt, La Monnaie, 070 23 39 39, www.lamonnaie.be www.demunt.be.

In the 1990s she turned to choreographing classical music, creating M.O. (1995) based on the Musical Offering by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, and her first opera production, L'Orfeo (1998) by Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi.

Her choreographies continued to unfold in a serial fashion: «The Unstable Molecular Structure Cycle» (1980 — 83) was followed by the «Valiant Cycle» (1985 — 91); the «Back to Zero Cycle» (1990 — 94); and the «Music Cycle», (1995 — 96)-- which ultimately lead her to direct her first opera in 1998 at the invitation of Bernard Fouccroulle of Brussel's Théâtre Royale de la Monnaie: Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (1607).

Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin will be the first opera composed by a woman to be held at the Metropolitan Opera in more than a century.

Throughout the 1970s, he directed the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, and produced his first opera for television, the 14 - hour Music with Roots in the Aether, based on the work and ideas of seven influential American composers.

Her work has been showcased at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, as well as Roulette, who in 2014 commissioned and premiered her first opera, Bodiless.

In September 2009, he directed his first opera, Semele (by George Frideric Handel) in Brussels and Beijing, and the following year, participated in the Shanghai World Expo.

«In our first opera class, one boy refused to write,» recalls Mary Ruth McGinn.

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In a gorgeous Valentino dress, Coppola attended the premiere of her first opera, «La Traviata» in Rome, Italy, hosted by — of course — Valentino.

Everyone said this would be a great experience as a first opera, and they were right.

As this was my first opera, I wasn't too sure what to expect.

Between 1930 and 1932 composer Arnold Schoenberg worked on Moses und Aron, one of the first operas to make use of the twelve - tone technique, [76] Pablo Picasso painted in 1937 Guernica, his cubist condemnation of fascism, while in 1939 James Joyce pushed the boundaries of the modern novel further with Finnegans Wake.

The festival concentrates on world premieres of theater - related contemporary music, with a particular focus on commissioning first operas from young composers.

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The film, which will be released on Dec. 15 of this year, will pick up after the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the franchise's huge 2015 release that shattered box office records and marked the space opera's return to theaters for the first time in a decade.

«Whatever you want to say about the Trump administration, for the first seven months, the West Wing was a soap opera,» he said.

CNBC Meets» Tania Bryer speaks to celebrated soprano opera singer Jessye Norman, who speaks about her childhood growing up in Augusta, Georgia and her first experience of racial segregation.

Patrons of the Santa Fe opera company will be the first to find out this Saturday when The (R) evolution of Steve Jobs, a libretto revolving around the personal and professional lives of the Apple founder premiers.

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.

«This is what those who do not have a knowledge of the Augustinian historiography of the last few decades or a first - hand knowledge of the opera omnia of the African Father of the Church do» (p. xvii).

In 1967 he first sang the role of Peter Grimes under Colin Davis in New York and soon after that became a prominent feature of Herbert von Karajan's opera performances in the Saltzburg festivals.

After its first performance, the San Francisco Chronicle called the opera «something of a masterpiece» and the Manchester Guardian wrote that it «makes the most concentrated impact of any piece of American music theater since West Side Story.»

The O.C. was really only strong for its first season (well, it was at its strongest) but its self - awareness and core group of friends and family made it far more meaningful than its sunny beaches and soap opera plot lines would have you believe.

First, opera has experienced a tremendous revival of late, and not only among the senior generations.

The first time I had a real Belgian gaufre, at a Belgaufre stand near the Brussels opera house, I almost fell over from joy.

The first was like a soap opera in which there's a crisis every 13 seconds and a hero is resurrected every minute and a half.

Sergio Garcia stepped off the Wentworth Club course on Thursday after posting an even - par 72 in the first round of the BMW PGA Championship and right back into the never - ending soap opera that has engulfed him and Tiger Woods for the past two weeks.

The length of the national anthem has typically been under two minutes; however, a two minute and 35 second rendition from Alicia Keys in the year prior coupled with the first ever opera singer performing led sportsbooks to set the over / under for length at two minutes, 25 seconds.

«We spend the first month just talking about what opera is.»

Dunstan, then a twenty - four - year - old first - time mom of a colicky baby boy in Australia, was an accomplished violinist and a trained opera singer with the equivalent of a photographic memory for sound.

The first song that popped into my head was The Runaways attempt at rock - opera — «Dead End Justice.»

This summer marks an historic season for the annual Bard SummerScape festival, when eight weeks of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret will turn for the first time to Latin America.

The first is the need for Labour's current generation to escape the soap opera of the past.

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

I was in my first full - fledged opera at age 11.

Perhaps the longest - running soap opera in academic science ended early Saturday morning when PRO / UAW, the union representing the more than 5000 postdocs on the University of California's 10 campuses, reached a tentative agreement on a first contract with the University of California.

Physical Review Letters has agreed to publish the paper, making it the first scientific journal to accept work on the OPERA result.

Doctor Atomic, a new opera about to open at the Met, brings nuclear proliferation, «rogue states» and the terrorists» dream of a dirty bomb back to the first «ground zero»

This device was first reported in the paper titled «Long - range coupling of electron - hole pairs in spatially separated organic donor - acceptor layers» written by H. Nakanotani at Kyushu University's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) in Fukuoka, Japan, and colleagues and published online Feb. 26, 2016 in the journal Science Advances.

Where the opera does succeed dramatically is in re-creating the sense of terror that surrounded the first test at Alamogordo.

Indeed, this is not the first time a contemporary composer has recognized the seemingly limitless potential for atomic Sturm und Drang; two previous operas — Steve Reich's Three Tales and Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach — take as a central symbol the explosion of a nuclear bomb.

Set in 1945, the opera focuses first on Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the bomb was built, and then on the Trinity site in Alamogordo, where the bomb was first tested on July 16 of that year.

Perhaps the longest - running soap opera in academic science ended early Saturday morning when PRO / UAW, the union representing the more than 5000 postdocs on the University of California's ten campuses, reached a tentative agreement on a first contract with the University of California.

Sawalha, known for her role in the long - running British soap opera EastEnders, said she first experienced eczema after a breakup with her boyfriend at age 17.

After the first act, there were «boxed lunches» for sale and a sushi bar to enjoy, since the opera started right at 5:30.

The first act of the opera all takes place in this gorgeous forest scene.

The first thing that popped into my head was:» What to wear to an opera?»

This was the first time I attended a performance in the opera house — previously I've just made a quick visit to the foyer.

A play about politics or an opera about religion isn't a good idea for a first date — neither is your granddaughter's third grade clarinet recital.