Sentences with phrase «opera story»

Mass Effect 2 was epic, and I don't just mean the scope of its space opera story.

Noted for their epic space - opera story lines and supremely balanced multiplayer gameplay, Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft ® real - time strategy games have been a longstanding fixture on players» and critics» «Best of» lists and a staple of professional eSports for as long as the category has existed.

Even if its clever puzzles, expansive worlds and space opera story line felt a little familiar, the game was so polished and challenging that no one seemed to mind.

As well as Nara, Icardi brings some baggage, not least the soap - opera story of how he ended up with his current partner.

The show tells the soap - opera story of a fictionalized version of the British royal family.

This book by the Metropolitan Opera Company has 15 opera stories.

Taking on the role of brand new character Ryder (either Scott or Sara, depending on which gender you'd prefer), players are put once again in control of the leader of a band of merry men, women, aliens and others in one of the all - time greatest space soap opera stories ever made.

Not exact matches

One of the defining characteristics of a soap opera is a story that's too delicious to be true.

«Consider the case of Nordstrom,... the swanky department store chain I like so much with a story that's reaching soap opera levels of melodrama,» Cramer said on Wednesday.

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.

The story rivals any contemporary soap opera.

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.

An interesting story is told of Dorothy Day, a woman whose life was marked by prophetic simplicity, and yet who loved nothing so much as books, opera and the fine touch of knit wool.

Such words strike a deep chord in this age of cheap sentimentality and ethics shaped by the story lines of soap operas and sitcoms.

Dr. Boli goes to the opera -LRB-» Giuditta tells the story of the doomed love affair between Octavio... and Giuditta, a beautiful woman with the brains of a gerbil»), observes Thanksgiving customs all over the world, teaches us history, and writes a play.

After its first performance, the San Francisco Chronicle called the opera «something of a masterpiece» and the Manchester Guardian wrote that it «makes the most concentrated impact of any piece of American music theater since West Side Story.»

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

With astar - studded field that included Phil Mickelson (right), Ernie Els, Adam Scott, Vijay Singh and K.J. Choi, and a story line spiced with off - the - purse cash, tragedy, catfights, food poisoning and, in the end, a great champion, the Asiantour event turned out to be the week's most entertaining soap opera.

He is also the co-librettist of a chamber opera that is based on his transformed - by - Ali stories.

But when you make your living as an opera star - well, that's a different story.

It featured as a running story line in three soap operas during the sampling period (EastEnders, BBC1, Coronation Street, ITV, and Brookside, Channel 4).

Your child shouldn't be expected to sit for a three hour opera, but should remain in one spot long enough to listen to a story and participate in class activities.

Charting what he terms the «soap - opera» years of the Labour government, his book continues to ruffle feathers with an updated preface bringing the story up to the tempestuous present.

THE faster - than - light neutrino saga is officially history, but the story of OPERA, the experiment behind the original claim, is not.

Story number 4: Older women who watch mostly talk shows and soap operas score poorly on tests of mental functioning.

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.

As each act unfolded one after another, I found myself getting lost in the story, in with the characters and oblivious to the grandeur of the opera house.

After realising I had enough dating horror stories to keep a soap opera going for a few years, I decided I need to start writing them down.

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.

Nevertheless, several additional Wagner albums did ensue.Subsequent years witnessed Wagner continually alternating between theater — where his roles included Tony in a national touring production of West Side Story (1987), Danny in a national touring production of Grease (1988), and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the Broadway production of Jekyll and Hyde (2000)-- and continued soap opera work.

A story that ought to possess the mad grandeur of an opera acquires the tedious regularity of soap opera.

But the story is a wee bit modernized, plagued by a number of themes that were cribbed from weekday afternoon soap operas

But the story is a wee bit modernized, plagued by a number of themes that were cribbed from weekday afternoon soap operas rather than the heady and trying plots of Austen.

Ron Howard's Solo: A Star Wars Story is the second spin - off in cinema's most celebrated space opera.

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.

The problem is the story is just poor, all the excitement was in the previous stories, in this last instalment it just seems like a vampire soap opera.

The story, while playing like a soap opera on the surface, is chock full of wry human observations while showing great affection for its characters.

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.

However, that doesn't keep Hollywood moments from creeping in now and then, with lots of soap opera antics and fisticuffs that would seem injected in order to make the tale of these boys more cohesive in terms of story development, resulting in a forced climax and epilogue that probably comes more out of fantasyland than out of the recollections of a documentarian.

Particularly over the first night, the back story becomes tedious and the storytelling devices used to make it seem engaging only turn it into a soap opera.

Yet there is also a story between the songs; one is the soap opera love interest angle of the captain, Maria and another well - to - do woman in the area, and the other being the more serious plotline of the Nazi takeover of Austria and the changes they make in Austria.

An opera featuring the Kronos Quartet and Van - Anh Vanessa Vo tells the story of an American soldier who tried to stop his own troops.

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.»

Oh, and He imagines himself in a variety of scenarios including South Korean soap opera and period war film, and His heart manifests as a character from a pulp detective story because f*ck you.

Now in the present, actress Kate Lyn Sheil is cast in a «stylized cheap «70s soap opera» version of Christine's story, and to prepare for the role, Kate travels to Sarasota to investigate the mysteries and meanings behind her tragic demise.

Directed by Gareth Edwards and written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy based on an idea by John Knoll, this epic space opera marks the first «Star Wars» stand - alone story, depicting the events shortly before the series» original movie.

The odd hybrid of small town soap opera and brutal crime thriller builds slowly — maybe a little too slowly for some — but director Richard Fleischer does an impressive job of weaving the stories and character around each other visually, with characters criss - crossing through scenes and Fleischer panning his camera to across the vast canvas to pick out threads of others stories.

It's easy to dismiss Jane Got a Gun as a sunburned revenge story / soap opera / western.

Jason recently opened up about the story behind his puppet rock - opera centered around Count Dracula titled A Taste for Love, which was first seen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Each is hatched from that particular litter of crowd - pleasing, tear - jerking, golden - hued nostalgia operas that endlessly recycle the same batch of story conveniences and stock characters in pursuit of frozen tableaux and over-scored, broadly - telegraphed climaxes.