Sentences with phrase «grand opera»

Indeed, it is a uniquely dreamlike, lushly romantic, highly erotic and prototypically Coppolaesque version of the story - a movie that does for the vampire genre what «The Godfather» did for the gangster saga, and what «Apocalypse Now» did for the war movie: raises it to the level of grand opera.

It's grand opera on a frequently small scale, and it perfected the blueprint Marvel's been following ever since.

The choir functions as if it were the chorus in grand opera.

And the crises come with stunning regularity since we work with more than 11,000 children, many of whom face daily drama that would make grand opera seem drab by comparison.

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If The Girl at the Lion d'Or was a simple three - movement symphony, Birdsong an opera, Charlotte Gray a complex four - movement symphony and On Green Dolphin Street a concerto, then Human Traces is a Wagnerian grand opera.

1, No. 1 — haunted me down the years and led to further essays, some for my students at Vanderbilt University, others for concertgoers in Nashville who enjoy grand opera at least as much as the Grand Old Opry.

Simultaneously open and intimate, the layout allows you to see a panorama of works installed in different rooms, giving the impression that the artworks are characters appearing in one grand opera rather than on discrete stages, following their own narrative.

Located on the banks of the Hillsborough River, the Straz Center presents over 4,000 concerts, performances and events per season, ranging from grand opera to Broadway shows.

As the medium of the feature - length motion picture slides slowly but ever so surely toward the status of grand opera — as repository of the grand, grandiloquent esthetic gestures of another time — never - to - be-found boundaries of possibility continue to be exceeded by restorations of movies long neglected, as prophetic history of a rich future likely not to come.

As in grand opera and the movies, or Matthew Barney in video that quotes both, one sits back in a kind of awe.

Dvořák's work includes no fewer than twelve operas but his grand opera, Dimitrij, is rarely staged outside the Czech Republic.

As if it were a grand opera.

But most of all, the new exhaust system makes for an acoustic experience that is surely equal to the driving performance — from the heavy rumble of a stormy night, through the trumpeting of mighty elephants to the roar of a raging lion, the SuperVeloce performs the grand opera for 12 cylinders, 48 valves and 8,000 revs.

While streets such as Michalská and Panská are home to baroque palaces, and a grand opera house, built by the Habsburgs, draws music lovers from throughout Europe, Kapitulska terminates with Katedrála svätého Martina (St. Martin's Cathedral), a Gothic cathedral consecrated in 1452 that was the site of the coronation of 11 Hungarian or Hungarian monarchs including Maria Theresia.

From this, Kentridge developed a work that draws on the propulsive theatricality of his grand opera productions to address a running theme in his fine art practice: the impulse of Western countries to colonize the bodies and souls of non-Western cultures, with special reference to his native South Africa, where Kentridge still lives and works.

I know I was, and I was rewarded with some grand opera.

This is not the grand opera typical of abstract expressionism.

On Oct. 22, 1885, Titusville broke ground on a grand opera house.