Sentences with phrase «grand opera on»

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It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

From «A Streetcar Named Desire» to «Henry IV,» and contemporary opera to lavish circus performances, there's always a grand spectacle on stage at St. Ann's.

From the bombastic opening overture and impressively elaborate, high - tech opening credits, you expect a grand - scale space opera and on the surface, it appears to be that.

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 Company's designers and engineers have created a compelling new take on the Grand Touring Bentley — a vehicle that feels equally at home at an opera gala performance, on the sand dunes and the overtaking lane of the autobahn.

«This is a space opera that plays out on a grand scale, and Young conducted it with aplomb.»

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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.

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.

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