Sentences with phrase «of grand opera»

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.

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.

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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.

My fascination with the world of arts, the grand operas, museums, architecture, and textiles are giving the love I have for luxury and beauty that spill into the way I want Mahalo products to be experienced.

We've already suggested taking your date to the Florida Grand Opera, but the pageantry and bombast of opera isn't for everyone.

Aida, the grandest of all operas, was commissioned to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal and has been thrilling audiences since its 1871 Cairo premiere.

Here's a Halloween pick for you: a macabre musical about a sociopathic barber (Johnny Depp) with flashing razors and a demented cook (Helena Bonham Carter) who hides the evidence of his murders into meat pies, directed by Tim Burton, the dark fantastist of American cinema, as both threepenny opera and Grand Guignol.

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.

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.

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.

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Enjoy an opera at Shanghai's Grand Theater, take in the beauty of the Jade Buddha Temple or climb the Oriental Pearl TV Tower for unparalleled city views.

Palermo the capital of Sicily is full of extravagant baroque palazzo and gothic churches, grand hotels and the opera house Teatro Massimo is the second largest in Europe.

Pest offers grand boulevards, the opera and the glorious parliament building, with its striking Neo-Gothic façade and sculpted figures of Hungarian kings, princes and historical notables.

Some of the top attractions include luxury casinos, opera performances, the Grand Prix which takes place in May and the Prince's Palace where you can watch the daily changing of the guard at noon.

These range from the space opera Mass Effect to the criminal underworld of Grand Theft Auto.

Also making the grade for this renowned collection of seminal game titles is interactive soap opera The Sims, gangster adventure Grand Theft Auto III, role - playing favourite Legend of Zelda, educational title Oregon Trail and one of the titles that helped kickstart the video gaming industry, Space Invaders.

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

Finally, a series of mesmerizing video installations Order, More and Culture Plate # 7 (ALL 2003) featuring emblematic, anonymous figures in patterns, culminates in the monumental Time Left (2002), a grand opera of isolation and connection, in which row upon row of human figures forming a vast wall text in motion, endlessly march across the entire perimeter of a room to an unknowable destination.

The Program in Music Theater brings together students, faculty, and guest artists in the creation, study, and performance of music theater, including Broadway musicals, musical comedy, cabaret, music hall, operetta, singspiel, comic opera, grand opera, chamber opera and experimental music theater.

Inside you'll see LA swimming pools, palm trees, flowers, his dachshunds, the Grand Canyon, portraits of rich and not rich friends, landscapes in the U.S. and Yorkshire, designs for opera sets.

This is not the grand opera typical of abstract expressionism.

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.

Barton adds, «I'm so proud of HGO and honestly, as a former Houston Grand Opera Studio member this is very much my home opera house.

HOUSTON — With a cast that includes Liudmyla Monastyrska as Norma and HGO Studio alum and now superstar Jamie Barton as Adalgisa, Houston Grand Opera's production of Bellini's Norma is one opera not to miss, April 27 - May 11 at George R. Brown's Resilience Theater.

In 2016, Douglas has participated in Imhof's three - act opera Angst, a grand and opaque artwork made up of a multipart performance, a musical composition, paintings, and sculptural elements that are alternately activated or still.