Sentences with phrase «opera singers who»

«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.

«This hospital saved me, I had uterine cancer,» said Mary Christie Sis, an opera singer who pays the bills with a telemarketing job.

Neo Geo frontwoman Rainy Terrell is a former opera singer who embraces ever - changing hair colors, smokey eyes, false lashes, and bold lips.

Among them is Wilf (Billy Connolly), an opera singer who still talks like a hormone - driven adolescent.

A biopic telling the story of Paul Potts, a Welsh cellphone salesman and amateur opera singer who became an overnight sensation via the reality TV series «Britain's Got Talent.»

Cressy (Rachael Maza), the eldest of the three, is a diva - an opera singer who is reluctant to visit the past and definitely doesn't want to share it with her sisters.

An amateur opera singer who can only perform on stage within an environment like that of his bathroom, for example, or Alec Baldwin as an imaginary confidante invisible to all except Jesse Eisenberg....

Tintin is a Belgian boy who somehow manages to be a journalist without ever writing a word, who knocks out grown men twice his size with a single fling of his fist, and who lives in a world where the only woman is a jolly opera singer who exists only to make us laugh.

It reminds me of the American opera singer who first had to get acclaim in Europe before being recognized at home.»

Whether it's a jackrabbit opera singer who can fly or a goofball circus clown who can tickle a person without touching them, it's possible and cool.

Jane Lawrence Smith (February 3, 1915 — August 5, 2005), born Jane Brotherton, was an American actress and opera singer who was part of the New York art scene beginning in the 1950s.

On her website, which includes a number of glamorous headshots, Makhnevich is described as «a talented and imaginative dentist and an opera singer who is driven by an incredible passion for self - expression through art.»

The dentist in question, Stacey Makhnevich, boasted of being an opera singer who catered to musicians.

Not exact matches

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

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.

«The two things you listen for in an opera singer are, does he have ping and does he have a noble sound,» says New York - based sports - caster Bill Mazer, who, when he was starting in the business in 1947, studied Husing and occasionally worked alongside him.

The Leicester City manager praised all of the participants of the day, including legendary opera singer Andrea Bocelli, who sang for the crowd in a Leicester City jersey prior to the match as Ranieri stood besides him.

After parking her car, she retrieved a duffel of supplies from her trunk and headed up four flights of stairs to see Jenny Crutchlow, a 43 - year - old opera singer / executive recruiter who was eight months» pregnant with her third child.

Some well - known people have received honours this year including: • actor Kenneth Branagh receives a knighthood, Kate Winslet a CBE and Jenny Agutter an OBE • architect Zaha Hadid receives a DBE, opera director David McVicar is knighted, and comic writer Grant Morrison gets an MBE • there were MBEs for world number one ranked golfer Luke Donald, Welsh rugby union player Shane Williams and former England goalkeeper David James • satirist Armando Iannucci gets an OBE, and there are CBEs for journalist Peter Riddell and cookery writer Mary Berry • there were OBEs for singer - songwriter Gary Barlow who organised the Queen's Jubilee Concert, and Sarah Burton, designer of Kate Middleton's wedding dress

Jaye Bea Smalley, a longtime disabilities advocate who serves as co-president of the Citywide Council on Special Education, will join the Upper West Side's Community Board 7; the Rev. Keith Fennessy, a fifth - generation New Yorker and pastor of St. Columba Catholic Church in Chelsea, will join Community Board 4; and Sabrina Francis, an opera singer and music teacher at Round the Clock Daycare, will join Harlem's Community Board 9.

His brother, Kevin, is a singer who has appeared as a soloist with the Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic and other top - tier opera companies and symphony orchestras.

Jansson's frestelse or Swedish creamy potato casserole is attributed to an opera singer named Pelle Janzon who was apparently not just a good comedic actor but also a lover of good food.

I'm 27 and bisexual looking for a lady lover... once a pro opera singer and artist, I'm renovating an old farm in the sandhills of north Carolina with a lake and woods and would love to meet a laid - back fem who enjoys similar interests and art and history as well..

Based on the extraordinary true story of Andrea Bocelli, a blind boy, who against all odds becomes one of the most world renowned opera singers.

This is listed as a western comedy and I guess it did have a funny part or two, but its just a good story, A opera singer comes into town, she is not your typical opera singer by no mean, not big boned, fat or big busted, no this women is beautiful, and two brothers who can't stand each other start a quarrel over her.

Woody Allen plays Jerry, a retired «avant guarde» opera director who discovers his daughters new father in law, Giancarlo (played by tenor Fabio Armiliato), is a natural opera singer — but only in the shower.

Also nestling its way into voters» minds from the Beverly Hilton ballroom was Meryl Streep, who was considered a bubble candidate at best for her role as a bad opera singer in the little - seen «Florence Foster Jenkins.»

So he gambles all he's built on the «Swedish nightingale», opera singer Jenny Lind (Ferguson), who hypnotises him and threatens his marriage, and a high - class tour of the country's opera houses.

In this film, Meryl Streep plays Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer despite having a terrible singing voice.

Plot involves a ghost who haunts an opera house and helps a budding singer before jealousy gets the better of him.

Jenkins was a New York socialite who dreamed of being a well - known opera singer.

What It's About: «The story of Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep), a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice and her husband and manager, an aristocratic English actor who was determined to protect her from the truth.»

That's because the real surprise is Simon Helberg («The Big Bang Theory») who steals every scene he's in as the opera singer's pianist.

Official Synopsis: Academy Award winner Meryl Streep delivers a «hilarious and touching» performance as a New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer.

It treats him as a standard - issue poor boy who made good, yet still let pride get the better of him, by over-expanding his business, and by becoming so infatuated with Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind (Rebecca Ferguson of «Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation») that he jeopardized his otherwise sublime marriage to Charity (Michelle Williams), mom of his two adorable daughters (Austyn Johnson and Cameron Seely).

Meryl Streep stars as the famously terrible opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins, a twentieth - century American heiress who used her wealth to pursue her dream of professional singing despite being tone deaf.

Streep stars in the upcoming Florence Foster Jenkins comedy, which is based on the true story of an eccentric New York socialite who dreams of becoming an opera singer in the»40s.

(In Turkish with subtitles) A Wink and a Smile (Unrated) Ecdysiast documentary about ten ordinary women from different walks of life (including a doctor, a housewife, an opera singer and a college student) who take a six - week course in striptease at Seattle's Academy of Burlesque before trying their hand, I mean feet, at exotic dancing onstage.

Such is the approach of «Florence Foster Jenkins» (in theaters Aug. 12), Frears» latest biographical dramedy, about the life of the notorious New York heiress who went down in history as the worst opera singer ever to perform at Carnegie Hall.

Playbill Clive Owen will return to Broadway in a revival of M. Butterfly - no word yet on who'll play the Chinese opera singer he doesn't realize is a man despite a long affair.

In truth, he was the American - born son of a Russian father and Polish mother who trained as an opera singer.

American Idol this is not, but it is a look into the life of one of the worst opera singers to ever live, a woman who many believed had no right being on stage driven by her own confidence and the politeness of those closest to her.

He vows to avenge the premature death of his beloved mother who dies in poverty after being ostracised by her family for marrying below her station, after eloping with an Italian opera singer.

Unfortunately, the budding author is blinded to her feelings due to an obsession he has for the famous opera singer Jenny Lind (Flora Montgomery), who once made a benevolent gesture on his behalf.

Meryl Streep has been widely praised for her turn as the 1940s New York heiress who couldn't sing (and we mean really couldn't sing) yet somehow became an opera singer with the help of her patient husband St Clair Bayfield (Hugh Grant) and pianist Cosme McMoon (Simon Helberg).

How else to describe this «opera singer» who performed at Carnegie Hall?

-- Paramount Pictures has landed distribution rights to Stephen Frears» «Florence Foster Jenkins,» starring Streep as a New York heiress and socialite who pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer despite having a terrible voice.

Starring Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson, and Nina Arianda, the story centers on the titular woman, an heiress and socialite, who was an astonishingly terrible opera singer, who was blind to her own lack of talent, and pursued a career anyway, all while being protected from the truth by her devoted manager.

Andrea Bocelli -(born September 22, 1958) opera singer Dr. Jacob Bolotin -(1888 - 1924) First blind doctor Ray Charles -(September 23, 1930 - June 10, 2004) American pianist and musician Jose Feliciano (born 1945) American singer Thomas Gore (December 10, 1870 - March 16, 1949) American senator Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) American author, activist, and lecturer David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) New York governor Marla Runyan (born January 4, 1969) marathon runner James Thurber (December 8, 1894 - November 2, 1961) American cartoonist Erik Weihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) mountain climber Stevie Wonder (born May 13, 1950) American singer - songwriter Others who became visually impaired: W.C. Handy (1873 - 1958) Blues composer - went blind in middle age Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 - January 8, 1642) Astronomer Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) French painter Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) American president Harriet Tubman (c.1820 - March 10, 1913) American slave and slave freer

He's a small town Alabama boy, now a hard luck Atlanta lawyer, who falls hard for a glamorous opera singer.