Sentences with phrase «opera about»

Susan Philipsz talks about her new work at BALTIC, dismantling an opera about space, and the power of the human voice

Thaddeus Phillips teams up with the Minneapolis - based musical duo Wilhelm Bros. & Co. to create this action - opera about Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious last days.

Mezzo - soprano Hai - Ting Chinn performs an experimental 75 - minute opera about science — complete with lyrics drawn from famous scientists.

This year's acclaimed performance festival Prototype: Opera / Theater / Now, known for producing some of the most cutting - edge musical theater in the city, brings the world premier of «Angel's Bone,» an opera about human trafficking from the eclectic composer Du Yun, and «Dog Days,» a moving opera from David T. Little and Royce Vavrek about how one family survives in the aftermath of an apocalyptic catastrophe.

Dance legend Lucinda Childs was going nowhere — until an avant - garde opera about a famous physicist shot her to success.

They are also sketches for The Nose, his designs for the opera about to open in Lincoln Center.

The McNay is supplementing the Whitney retrospective with a small show focusing on his costumes for Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's opera about Susan B. Anthony and another one featuring Indiana's monumental screen - prints exploring the relationship between Marsden Hartley and Karl von Freyburg.

In this week's roundup Lari Pittman arrives in the Midwest, Alfredo Jaar revisits Venice Biennale, Kalup Linzy casts Michael Stipe, David Altmejd explores paradise, Marina Abramovic appears in an opera about her life, and more.

As her new work, A Single Voice, goes on show at BALTIC, the artist talks to Imelda Barnard about dismantling an opera about space, and the power of the human voice

Abzû Abzû is an underwater opera about the precious cadence of ecosystems.

It's a science fiction space opera about a teenage girl who becomes a space pirate.

The two officers on duty were sipping tea from cloisonné cups and smoking Marlboro Lights, engrossed in a television soap opera about sixteenth century Chinese warlords.

If the car had been invented one hundred years earlier, Verdi would no doubt have written an opera about a used - car dealer.

Vertical publishes some of the most interesting manga available in English, but they have not had a digital program — until now: They recently announced that they will make three series available as e-books: The astronaut - school story Twin Spica, the science fiction story 7 Billion Needles (based on Hal Clement's novel Needle), and the soap opera about competing wine connoisseurs, Drops of God.

Pronounced «d plus evolution» and suffused with Stevie Wonder funk and zigzagging prog - rock, the album is an artistic statement album with a capital «A,» complete with an alter ego and theatrical flourishes that hint toward something of a funk - rock opera about death, spirituality and personal identity.

But what makes the film more than a mere vengeance flick is that it is actually a fairy tale disguised as a humble western in the same way that the Star Wars franchise is actually a space opera about a son redeeming his father who fell from grace.

When it allows itself to be a tawdry soap opera about people who alternate sleeping around with stabbing their allies in the back, it's more effective.

«Traffic» is a socially and politically grandstanding soap opera about the narcotics trade and the...

The album is an artistic statement album with a capital «A,» complete with an alter ego and theatrical flourishes that hint toward something of a funk - rock opera about death, spirituality and personal identity.

It is like a soup opera about «heroes».

John Cameron Mitchell's rock opera about a transgender East German rocker made a surprisingly strong transition to the big screen — thanks, in no small part, to retaining Stephen Trask's great songs and retaining Mitchell in the lead role — in an adaptation that took advantage of the switch in medium by enlivening some of the musical numbers with quirky animations by Emily Hubley.

A play about politics or an opera about religion isn't a good idea for a first date — neither is your granddaughter's third grade clarinet recital.

Doctor Atomic, a new opera about to open at the Met, brings nuclear proliferation, «rogue states» and the terrorists» dream of a dirty bomb back to the first «ground zero»

I saw Where Elephants Weep, a rock opera about Cambodians who return after fleeing the Khmer Rouge and living in the States.

Tristan is ultimately not so much an opera about a love triangle as it is about redemption through the miracle of forgiveness.

It is an opera about the fundamental duplicity of the human character; to depict this, Wagner puts the tenor's voice under the utmost stress to portray Tannhäuser's disjointed psychology.

August 31, 2016 • From operas about Steve Jobs and Alice in Wonderland to an orchestral evocation of Detroit and a new concerto for Yo - Yo Ma, the new concert season is flush with premieres.

Jockum Nordström draws, cuts and affixes childlike images of society as it often appears to us in historical soap operas about masters and servants.

Not exact matches

As it happens, you can learn a lot about creativity from Wenders» dive into opera.

CNBC Meets» Tania Bryer speaks to celebrated soprano opera singer Jessye Norman, who speaks about her childhood growing up in Augusta, Georgia.

What he did: After searching in vain for a publisher for Boob Tube, a satirical novel about the soap opera industry that he penned with his wife, tech entrepreneur Mark Coker, 47, took matters into his own hands.

It's the middle of August, the latest issue of Fortune is finally closed, and I am all out of things to say about the latest wrinkle in Uber's neverending soap opera.

«Whatever you want to say about the Trump administration, for the first seven months, the West Wing was a soap opera,» he said.

CNBC Meets» Tania Bryer speaks to celebrated soprano opera singer Jessye Norman, who speaks about her childhood growing up in Augusta, Georgia and her first experience of racial segregation.

«I work with people who want to learn more about beer, from consumers to publicans and marketers and breweries,» says Amato, a one - time opera singer who now runs Beerology, a beer - education and consultancy company.

Much of classical music is instrumental, operas are not always about religion, country music isn't always religious, folk music depends on the origin which can be secular or of other religions besides Christian, much of rock and pop music is not religious, and so on.

These are among the items promoted for Holy Week: two polemics against white racism, an attack on the tobacco industry, three murder mysteries, one story about a serial murderer, a comedy about soap operas, a story on the sexual abuse of children, and a drama about vampire families in San Francisco.

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.

The soap opera section of the show opened up questions about faith, food, poverty, celebration, feast and deeper questions on indulgence and waste.

Infuriated by the moral decadence he finds about him, Lancelot Andrewes Lamar determines to create a stern new morality of his own, a revived courtly righteousness which will put an end to the American baboon colony, as he calls it, where men and women cohabit as indiscriminately as characters in a soap opera.

I haven't posted on here for years because it's like a bad soap opera, same people same theme with the same trolls... so I did something about it but guess what it won't change like you said and you are part of the problem so keep posting and prove me right.

But despite the importance of the nun and Joseph De Rocher for the story, the opera really isn't about them.

The interesting thing about this opera is that its ethos is fatalistic (Jesus: «Everything is fixed and you can't change it») and it would therefore be easy to call it anti-Christian and dismiss it.

I learned a little about a new veggie in this Ginger Soy Yu Chou post from Kitchen Operas.

It will call to you from the refrigerator while you fiddle with your stir - fry for dinner; it will entice you while you recline on the couch to watch your soap opera; it will torment you as you slog through another session on the treadmill; it will whisper to you while you lie in bed and think about what to write in tomorrow's blog post.

Sahin also plays the role of Ayla Ozgul in German soap opera «Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten», so we are talking about a top - of - the - range WAG here!

Cut out the cancer that is wrecking our club weâ $ ™ ve all been saying for the past few weeks, but what if when youâ $ ™ ve done that there's about four players left in the team — and an ever - shortening list of players of Boa Morteâ $ ™ s quality who are willing to sign up to the soap - opera?

There is no reason for DJ to not be a huge star at this point besides the fact that idiotic casual fans don't respect small guys and only get excited about soap operas where two guys talk smack about each other.

«The soap opera is about to end, Romulo is set to join Juventus.

Last week I was strolling by this pink sky, listening to Italian opera while drinking a root beer float, and it was just about perfect.