Sentences with word «libretto»

A libretto is the written text or script of an opera, musical, or other theatrical performance. It includes the dialogue, lyrics, and stage directions that guide the performers on what to say, sing, and do during the show. Full definition
It can be mentioned here the Toshiba Libretto W100 dual screened tablet has already been sold out in spite of its high price.
Mrs. President, an opera in two acts by Victoria Bond with libretto by Hilary Bell, tells her incredible story.
She wrote libretti for ten musical works with her long - time companion, composer Robert Starer, who died in 2001.
We see the price reductions as a WIN for the customer who wants more variety of an e-reader for less than $ 200.00 Toshiba Libretto W100 dual - screened tablet on sale in August
Ms. Davis» past work has included The Blue Planet (2008), a multi-media theater piece written by Peter Greenaway and directed by Saskia Boddeke, and was co-star in The Temptation of St. Anthony directed by Robert Wilson, with libretto and score by Bernice Johnson Reagon of Sweet Honey in the Rock.
That time is better than the 2 hours and 47 minutes of endurance offered by the Nav 9 or the 2 hours and 45 minutes provided by the dual - screen Toshiba Libretto W105, but it fell way short of the 9 hours and 28 minute provided by the iPad.
In June 2015 Jemison premieres a new musical performance in the Museum galleries, with original libretto by the artist and a score composed collaboratively by the artist and Courtney Bryan.
In the meantime watch cutscenes featuring professional British voice acting and enjoy the story of «The Magic Flute» opera libretto.
Some composers, notably Wagner, have written their own libretti; others have Welcome, Buying on the Opera shop means helping funding its shows.
Essay by Critic Mark Le Fanu, a 1929 Director's Statement by Carl Theodor Dreyer, and the Full Libretto for Voices of Light
That is what Acer is referring to the netbook styled device equipped with twin touch enabled screens and is much like the Toshiba Libretto though the Acer offering is bigger and runs the Windows 7 operating system.
It drew on the history of operatic librettos, the strategies of physical comedy, the language of narrative ballad and the futile violence of animated cartoons for inspiration.
Kara Walker, The Palmetto Libretto (sketch for an American comic opera with Fort Sumter), 2012, pastel and graphite on paper, 4 parts, 104.25 × 295 in., overall (framed) 264.8 × 749.3 cm, Courtesy Kara Walker & Sikkema Jenkins & Co..
Anna Nicole is an English opera in 2 acts and 16 scenes, with music by Mark - Anthony Turnage to an English libretto by Richard Thomas.
Last week we reported on Toshiba's new Libretto W100 dual - screen laptop as a possible ebook reader, and now Toshiba is launching their own ebook store — the Toshiba Book Place — powered by Blio software.
Max Rimaldi, who owns the two high - end Pizza Libretto restaurants in Toronto, says his cheese supplier told him he should expect 10 % to 15 % savings once the new pricing category is in place.
But the conventional anthem and the traditional libretto seem to be given over primarily to systematizing the concepts and clarifying the stories of ancient texts and modern communities.
And while Melville's text isn't exactly libretto - ready, the movements that opted to rewrite the text often ended up sounding clunky and awkward.
But Mary just keeps singing, ranging high on her scales of praise, soaring in her expectant and revolutionary libretto, because God has reached so unexpectedly down to where the least and the lowly still struggle for life.
Ms. Libretto has been scouring suppliers» offerings all summer looking for food free of chemicals, nitrates and high fructose corn syrup.
Cold Case is not only operatic, with a different bloody libretto and a different leitmotif each week, but has ambitions on the grander scale of Gesamtkunstwerk, of total Wagnerian theater - including a jukebox time machine.
Emigrating to America in the mid -»20s, he wrote several plays (including Children of Divorce, filmed in 1925) and musical librettos.
Thanks to his performance, I was able to overlook the sluggish libretto long enough to tear up over Valjean's plight.
Dir Dario Argento (Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Alida Valli, Daria Nicolodi) Horror cinema at its most baroque: a simple libretto is embroidered with elaborate, flowing camera movements, abstract blocks of colour, unsettling sound effects and soundtrack composer Keith Emerson's thunderous rock variations on Verdi.
Chuck Jones's «Rabbit of Seville» (in which Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd square off to a brilliantly mangled Rossini libretto / accompaniment) is life in seven.
So the device is expected to significantly better the rather dismal battery performance of the otherwise excellent Toshiba Libretto while also offering acceptable levels of performance.
So now Toshiba intends to make its presence felt perhaps in the $ 500 mark tablet segment with the new SmartPad which should fill in the gap between the erstwhile unwieldy sets and the costly Libretto W100.
An excellent design, but it still does nt beat the original Toshiba Libretto design where you could use the mouse with one hand as you would a desktop.
Walker illustrated «Porgy & Bess,» the limited - edition libretto by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin published in November 2013, with 16 lithographs.
It is an operetta with a Russian libretto set in the domestic environment of a bourgeois Israeli family, whose fear of dirt, dust, or any alien presence in their home takes the shape of a perverted devotion to home - cleaning appliances.
Matthew Barney, «Ancient Evenings: Ba Libretto,» 2009.
With a 16 - line libretto by Samuel Beckett, «Neither» weaves 12 dancers into Feldman's score, setting Shen Wei's painterly choreography amid large moving set pieces and visuals of his own design.
We also go over the new Toshiba Libretto W100 and the first 2.2 Android Tablet the PHI from Infibeam and also the new Nokia Tablet with Meego.
The Toshiba Libretto W105 springs to mind.
Apart from creating films and works on paper, she has authored several novels, plays and an opera libretto.
Some composers, notably Wagner, have written their own libretti; others have A leading viola player who says his hearing was irreparably damaged by loud music during rehearsals has started a landmark case against the Royal Opera House.
This essay contains the full libretto, followed by a conversation between Sally O'Reilly, Matt Rogers, Matthew Fox (Professor of Classics, University of Glasgow), Lisa Le Feuvre (Head of Sculpture Studies, the Henry Moore Institute) and Dominic Gray (Projects Director, Opera North).
Fear not — no secretive glittery paintings nor operatic librettos were unearthed in some dusty closet.
«The Palmetto Libretto» 2012 (pastel and graphite on paper, part 2 of a multipart work.
Taking its title from a 1920s opera composed by Virgil Thomson and libretto by Gertrude Stein, this group exhibition brings together contemporary artists such as Andrea Büttner, Jeni Spota C., Devin Mays, Dan Ramirez, Kehinde Wiley, Nate Young, and Rodrigo Lara Zendejas who appropriate the iconography of saints and other religious forms in order to critically explore their relationship to this imagery.
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