Sentences with phrase «opera sets»

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.

Markus Lüpertz (born in 1941) is an acclaimed figure in Europe, celebrated as a painter, a sculptor, a designer of opera sets, and an influential teacher.

In 1966, he designed opera sets and costumes for La Scala, Milan.

I loved the film about the scroll and the two opera sets of his that I had seen.

Andreas Gursky's computer - perfected hyperreal panoramas; Vera Luter's 24 - hour - exposure transformations of postcard sites into opera sets; David Hockney's multiperspective collaged Polaroids.

Each oak - floored rooms is decorated with giant images of theatrical opera sets and (sometimes overly) colourful furniture.

of his works are vaguely suggestive of Wagnerian opera sets or perhaps the huge wall - sized Baroque paintings of Peter Paul Rubens — that is, if Rubens's paintings had been reworked with a flamethrower.

In between it offers, among other things, meditations on Spanish architecture and landscapes, an outdoor concert where the conductor is on an elevated platform in a shopping arcade and the musicians are on nearby balconies, a lavish state party thrown for the novelist, a verbal chess match at the party, a credit sequence 20 - odd minutes into the film, a concert inside a cathedral, extended lovemaking, a recitation of part of the novelist's book, an opera performed at a gigantic fish market, a university lecture on algae, another opera set (though not staged) in a Turkish bath, a TV interview, a meal prepared and eaten by the three lovers, a film screening, and a plane trying to extinguish a forest fire.

Early reviews are in for «Solo: A Star Wars Story,» the newest standalone space opera set in the galaxy far, far away.

At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre - busting, ambitious, and charming debut - part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell - slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.

At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre - busting, ambitious, and charming debut - part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a...

In Paradise Interrupted the opera the set design is very specific.

★ Museum of Arts and Design: «NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial» (through Oct. 12) This plunge into the biennial format makes a big, messy splash sampling the visual culture across the city — whether opera set design, art or new technologies.

His projects in various media include an opera set in Griffith Park; a live / video performance addressing AIDS in the figure of the glory hole; a trilogy on «the residual space of the Vietnam War;» an extended proposal of Duchamp's oeuvre as a discourse in ethics; a meditation on the site / non-site dialectic by way of Edgar Allan Poe; context - specific works centering on the squatting body as a heuristic cipher; and a twenty - year plus collaboration with the writer and art world figure Warren Niesłuchowski.

Not exact matches

I was set on a path to be an opera singer.

For all the grandeur of the epic Tam o» Shanter, the verse opera Jolly Beggars, and the major unscored lyrics, nothing equals the simple lyrics he set to the auld hieland airts.

In a world where sex permeates everything and where the dominant Reichian myth, preached with demonic plausibility by every movie, sitcom, and soap opera, is that sexual activity is what constitutes true existence, the place of single, celibate Christians is set to be a significant pastoral issue.

When the Assemblies of God did break into the news in 1987, it was as the setting for a soap opera featuring PTL's Jim Bakker, who lost his AG ministerial credentials when news of his tryst with Jessica Hahn became public.

We certainly have every reason to suspect he had a low regard for the set of third - tier artistic and literary talents that had emerged in 1830s - 1850s Paris, the prototype «bohemians» portrayed in Flaubert's A Sentimental Education and especially the Murger stories that later became adapted into the Puccini opera La Bohème, the set most like our indie - alternative rockers.

In 2002, Erato released a two «CD set of the opera's original San Francisco performance and PBS broadcast a documentary on the making of the opera.

The length of the national anthem has typically been under two minutes; however, a two minute and 35 second rendition from Alicia Keys in the year prior coupled with the first ever opera singer performing led sportsbooks to set the over / under for length at two minutes, 25 seconds.

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

Girls watched soap operas on the lunchroom's four television sets — once used for educational viewing.

The Mansa Compact Binoculars are the perfect set of binoculars for indoor events such as operas or concerts thanks to the large objective lens.

On a Saturday morning in a three - story museum here, tourists admire Qian's faded green sofa set, the worn leather briefcase he carried for 4 decades, and a picture of him shaking hands with opera star Luciano Pavarotti.

Set in 1945, the opera focuses first on Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the bomb was built, and then on the Trinity site in Alamogordo, where the bomb was first tested on July 16 of that year.

The second act opened with my favorite set of the entire opera.

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BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN — A new rock opera composed of excerpts from ecstatic... The opera, set inside «a kaleidoscopic video tent» sets the text of online dating profiles and guides to live music in its examination of how...

Set during World War II, the opera focuses on the lives of two Puget Sound women: a Japanese - American forced to leave her home, and a German Jewish... dating...

A Foreign Affair will help make introductions, exchange contact info, and set up the dates — where singles could go on 3 - 5 in just one day (from a casual morning of coffee to an extravagant night at the opera).

Here's a «steamy» soap opera that's never very steamy, and if you set your expectations low, this movie is only too happy to meet them.

An appealing drama set in Wales in 1976 about a high school rock opera version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

The film, which cast her as a small - town girl whose best friend makes the big time by becoming a celebrated opera singer, provided McAdams with her breakout role, and she soon set her sights on Hollywood.

Based on the series of novels by James S.A.Corey, this space opera is set 200 years in a future where humanity has colonized the solar system, which is divided and on the brink of war.

UnReal is simultaneously a very dark satire of reality TV and a soap opera that breathes new life into old tropes by placing them in this very familiar, modern setting.

This was just a soap opera in a medieval setting, why should I care?

«Empire of Silver» is set at the time of Boxer Rebellion, involving a banking dynasty and all the soap opera that goes along with that.

Audaciously set on a variety of visually - engaging, bare - bones locales ostensibly picked without concern for cinematic pretense, U-Carmen effectively conveys a sense of everyday life in the region's Khayelistha Township while simultaneously serving up an endearing variation of a magical opera for the ages.

McQuarrie layers the action over several planes and drapes his actors in shadows, using darkness and flashes of color (like the billowing yellow dress that Ferguson wears or the blue lighting of the opera's set) to bring clarity to a logistically complicated series of fights and chases, measures and counter-measures.

The hushed, claustrophobic ambience of high privilege and repressed feeling occasionally cracks, as this horror movie reveals itself also to be a rich, agonizing melodrama and a dry comedy of manners set in a fantasy Manhattan of crème caramel wainscoting and black - tie evenings at the opera.

-RRB- about an American opera promoter's discovery that his prospective Italian in - law (real - life tenor Fabio Armiliato) is a talent only when he sings in the shower coasts nicely on its screwball premise and pays off in a funny set - piece that unfortunately goes on well past the punchline.

Set in the rollicking heyday of the French opera house, the tragic tale of the talented but tormented loner unfolds through grayed depictions of the present and brilliant full - color memories of the past.

Allen's own subplot (this is his first onscreen appearance since Scoop) about an American opera promoter's discovery that his prospective Italian in - law (real - life tenor Fabio Armiliato) is a talent only when he sings in the shower coasts nicely on its screwball premise and pays off in a funny set - piece that unfortunately goes on well past the punchline.

Quartet (PG - 13 for profanity and suggestive humor) Dustin Hoffman directed this musical drama set at a home for retired opera singers where plans for the annual concert celebrating Verdi's birthday are complicated by the arrival of a pampered diva (Maggie Smith).

Raquel Welch has been in a couple of memorable catfights, but Kansas City Bomber edges out over the prehistoric cave opera One Million Years B.C. because of its setting — roller derbies.

Their most recent production was Burton's Dark Shadows (2012), an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the potent mixture of soap opera and horror tale that had been a daytime television hit in the late Sixties.At the time of Richard's death, he and his wife were preparing with HBO a television series titled The Decalogue, 10 one - act plays set in modern day Los Angeles, each based on one of the Ten Commandments.

In this case, Lin serves up a piping - hot Supreme with everything on it: There are classic car races; spy movie accoutrements; an ecclesiastical devotion to the ever - growing family (the fam's 10 - deep at this point, not counting Brian's new kid); the»70s fantasy of Luke Evans» Owen Shaw and his grungy, car - flipping Formula 1 racer; Letty's soap - opera return from the grave; her vicious smackdown with Gina Carano; that giant set - piece between Vin Diesel and a tank; and the other giant set - piece between Vin Diesel and a jumbo jet — Furious 6 doesn't stop.

Those who are eager to slam Paramount's new «Baywatch» movie are probably the same kind of haters who let the original SoCal - set television soap opera die an abysmal - ratings death upon its initial release in the fall of 1989, when NBC hastily canceled...