Sentences with phrase «in operatic»

Their debut on March 7 will be on a distinguished international stage — nothing less than the 2014 Whitney Museum Biennial — with a digital film about how race haunts black identity, told in operatic form.

In fact, lying within the tunnels are four singers, performing in operatic style fragments of speeches by key actors in the global theatre of recent political history: from Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama, to George Bush and Saddam Hussein.

Recommended reading In the London Review of Books, T.J. Clark visits Tate Britain's Paul Nash retrospective, observing that «surrealism, if an artist is to be influenced by it, is best taken in operatic overdoses for a very short time».

It also contains shopkeepers that sing along to the background music in an operatic baritone, so really, what else could you want?

FX's Damages put Byrne opposite Glenn Close in an operatic battle of wills and loose ethics.

What follows in both Gibson's film and Fulci's is a period fantasy leaking blood and viscera, scored with drama and shot in operatic slow - motion: tales of martyrs and heroes, of battles against the unclean (more suggested in Gibson's film as a steely - eyed, newly - risen saviour gets ready to rock), and, in their different / same ways, reduced to the barest elements of conflict - action - resolution, repeat.

She can up the ante — even check into the male's physiological fitness by challenging him in this operatic duetting.»

Some bask in operatic culture; others see Star Wars (my count is up to 12 times so far).

All that made it hard for them to relate to the inspirational video about Huajian circulated by mobile phone with its sweeping shots of a gleaming factory and a soundtrack that repeats in operatic Mandarin: «Huajian has come, Huajian has come... holding the torch of hope.»

Not exact matches

Among the lowlights of the retailer's continuing, soap - operatic slide in 2013: CEO Ron Johnson resigned in April after all of 16 months on the job; the company had to apologize to customers for alienating them with new store concepts; and activist investor Bill Ackman, who stepped down from the board in August, swallowed a $ 470 million loss upon selling his Penney's stake.

As Jonas Barish points out in his sharply observed monograph The Anti «Theatrical Prejudice (1981), terms such as theatrical, operatic, melodramatic, and stagey tend to be hostile or belittling, as do phrases like play «acting, putting on an act, making a scene, making a spectacle of oneself, playing to the gallery, and so forth.

Still others said, «The operatic bits are good, but what a pity he had to spoil them by putting all of those silly commercial tunes in there.»

In response to the overwhelming demand for tickets to Il Divo's April 21 performance in Dublin, the operatic quartet have just confirmed a second Greatest Hits show at the O2 Arena, on April 22, 201In response to the overwhelming demand for tickets to Il Divo's April 21 performance in Dublin, the operatic quartet have just confirmed a second Greatest Hits show at the O2 Arena, on April 22, 201in Dublin, the operatic quartet have just confirmed a second Greatest Hits show at the O2 Arena, on April 22, 2013.

That evening's four relays, three individual races and two field events combined to drive the emotions of the crowd of 65,000 in ways so connected and operatic that the events seemed not randomly scheduled but willed.

And if you're going to Hay, you can relax in the Sky Arts Den where you'll sample daily operatic and jazz performances and take part in creative workshops.

Somehow distance brings out the governor's full range of operatic inflections and rhetorical flourishes that he doesn't deploy effectively in person.

Even after decades of operatic training, Horne is mystified about what makes it possible for her — let alone her granddaughter — to lift her voice in song.

All influenza viruses ultimately come from birds, and the paper begins the somewhat operatic and knotty story of this outbreak's origins with an H1N1 first isolated in swine in 1930, which itself was a close relative of the virus that caused the 1918 pandemic in humans.

They were local and international, silent and operatic, complicated and simple, natural and medicated, premature and post-dates, 45 minutes and 3 days long... and they all had at least one thing in common.

Beautifully shot and operatic in scope, the filmmaking is remarkable even if the story - telling is perplexing.

In his repertoire, Lord of Illusion is Barker's operatic sorcery opus.

Why go to a hideously obvious slasher movie, with no tricks up its sleeve beyond its use of songs like Bonnie Tyler's «Total Eclipse of the Heart,» Kim Wilde's «Kids in America,» and Air Supply's «Making Love Out of Nothing at All» to accompany images of operatic slaughter?

After retiring from the opera stage, Lauritz Melchior performed on TV and in night clubs, and also funded a scholarship for promising operatic newcomers.

Padilha instead ends up delivering what appears to be an operatic salute to the IDF, crosscutting the raid with Sarah's performance back in Tel Aviv and aligning the troops» efficiency with the choreography of limber bodies in tandem — and the widespread applause that follows.

Great in parts, but flat and clumsy in others, Bellamy's bid to become more serious appears to have stunted what he does best, which is operatic excess fuelled by volcanic emotion.

As its seasons have worn on and its universe of beasties and beastly acts has expanded, True Blood has become less interested in revising or adapting the soap - operatic tropes that made it such campy fun to begin with.

Aesthetically, the film finds Bertolucci in a transitory mode, caught between his early Godard - influenced abstraction and his later style of lush, operatic camera movements and theatrical use of color and music.

Barker's brand of unsavoury operatic cheese (he's the Douglas Sirk of splatter) finds its root here, too, in an inexplicable subplot involving a circus performer (I think) and his pet feral child.

August 5, 2015 • The best - selling novel and star - studded movie gets the operatic treatment from Pulitzer - winning composer Jennifer Higdon with a world premiere in Santa Fe.

As old grudges threaten to undermine past glories and theatrical temperaments play havoc with the rehearsal schedule, it becomes apparent that having four of the finest singers in English operatic history under one roof offers no guarantee that the show will go on.

As Taylor recognizes in some of his closing remarks, their operatic dispute is a kind of tug of war for Taylor's impressionable soul and those of his fellow men.

It's actually a pretty straightforward film, albeit one filled with eccentric choices: quirky Tarantino-esque monologues delivered in formal period speech; slow, rambling scenes punctuated with extreme gore; antagonists that could be read as racist caricatures, except the movie bends over backward to assure you they're not; and, to cap it all off, an operatic theme song that lays out the plot, Gilligan's Island - style.

Jenkins was a real person, a rich socialite and music lover who lived in New York in the early 20th century and enjoyed performing amateur operatics, which is all well and good, except she was a terrible singer: always off - key, probably tone - deaf, and worst of all, she chose really difficult pieces to sing that would have challenged even talented professionals.

Operatic style can't paste over the meagre, far - fetched substance in Oldboy director Park Chan - wook's English - language debut.

During his first few decades as an actor, Bill Macy took whatever was readily available: poetry - reading jobs, movie bits, comedy - record gigs (he's the operatic cabdriver in the classical music lampoon The Wurst of PDQ Bach) and off - Broadway stage assignments.

Leone's pitiless, operatic work has Clint Eastwood arriving in the crime - ridden «burg of San Migue.

Black levels are wonderfully inky and feature fantastic shadow detail, which is crucial during the operatic set piece in Vienna.

Though this execution could verge toward the excessively operatic, as in the heavy - handed De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940), these managerial efforts largely paid off, with a variety of fine performances across the generic and national spectrum: a spirited Lien Deyers in the tongue - in - cheek The Company's in Love; Magda Schneider, who also starred in Ophuls» Love Story (Une histoire d'amour, 1933), as the tragically morose Christine in Liebelei, her final despair registered in an extraordinary extended close - up; and acting luminaries James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan, searing in Caught's three - way confrontations.

In boldly operatic and unapologetically allegorical terms, The Conformist presents the story of Marcello Clerici (Jean - Louis Trintignant), a sexually indecisive and morally persuadable man who tries to get himself to focus by being a good fascist.

This season's earlier, recurring and grisly theme that life - is - cheap below the border has been replaced by the soap - operatic lightness displayed in the first seasons.

Although Oscar winners Rachel Weisz (Agora) and Jennifer Connelly (Creation) were previously linked to the project, it is impossible to contemplate the magnificence and menace of the operatic film without the award - winning Portman (currently monopolising the 2011 best actress Academy Award race in what has rightfully been called the best work of her career) at its centre.

Unlike any other filmmaker, he worked in extremes — big, operatic moments and the smallest gestures, such as the lighting of a match — using huge, empty frames smashed together with shocking close - ups, dark frames punctured by squares of light, and silence broken by squeals of astonishing music.

There is undoubtedly an artistic connection as well as personal, but where von Trier tends toward the operatic even in his most ghastly passage — such as in most of Antichrist — Refn is more indebted to the hallmarks of genre.

The closest we get here are the surging scenes of Woodcock speeding through the countryside in his little car and a few bursts of operatic swearing.

by Walter Chaw Maybe it was the anticipation, maybe it's because it's too much like the first film, Pitch Black, but David Twohy's Riddick is merely fine for what it is, lacking the kind of loopy, operatic invention of the franchise's middle course and contenting itself with being a bug hunt in the James Cameron sense of the word instead of exploring more of this universe.

Even when reaching for the operatic, he keeps the focus on small human foibles: a cellphone going off at a funeral; a car parked who knows where; a teenager (Lucas Hedges, in what should be a star - making breakout turn) whose mourning process is no more preoccupying than his desperate attempts to get some alone time with his girlfriend.

All the actors eagerly embrace the operatic nature of the through - composed source, appearing to burst into speech in between stretches of song.

With an operatic sweep, the composer has fashioned music which manages to conjure the same type of powerfully anguished beauty as the great Georges Delerue did in his scores for more serious films.

The character of Kelly can repeat over and over again that Line was «sent from above» and that the team is in emotional distress, but if we never see and process it, the operatic displays of emotion aren't grounded in any reality.

Speaking of that other Valkyrie, obviously the version that Tessa Thompson plays in the film is different from the original Marvel version of the Valkyrie, as the Marvel version intentionally evoked the mythological version of the character, which is very much a Norse vision of what a woman would look like, complete with the name Brunhilde (Brunnhilde also was a major part of Richard Wagner's famous operatic «Ring» cycle).