Sentences with phrase «opera voice»

(imagine me singing in my best opera voice... ok, so imagine an opera singer singing in her best opera voice, it was like that) it just looks so pretty.

Seriously, there's a segment where a giant poop monster sings to you in a fantastic opera voice.

The 1940s New York socialite and amateur soprano truly believed she had an amazing opera voice while her audiences mocked her and laughed hysterically.

Not exact matches

Each year, in the unlikely venue of a tiny opera house decked in gold - and - rose shells, the nation's technology elite gather and give voice to big ideas.

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.

A classically - trained opera singer, Farr has a voice degree from Missouri State University.

Glynis Ratcliffe used to be an opera singer, but after her daughter begged her to stop singing and be quiet for the millionth time, she decided to use her inside voice and write instead.

Remember that your voice is an expression of you, even if it isn't opera quality, and that's what counts to your child.

Your baby doesn't care whether you are completely tone deaf or an opera star, just as long as he or she hears the comforting sound of your voice.

The opera features the radiant voice of opera superstar Deborah Voigt.

For the past seven years Mr. Golijov has been inspired by the voice of Dawn Upshaw, for whom he composed several works, including the Three Songs for Soprano and Orchestra, the opera Ainadamar, the cycle Ayre, and a number of arrangements of popular songs.

Excellent alignment is vital for breath management, volume and resonance when performing an opera aria, but resolving postural distortions can offer great benefits for voices of all kinds.

Possessed of a splendid singing voice, our heroine rises to fame on the opera stage, while poor Jonathan continues struggling, supporting himself as a tour guide.

When touring Italian opera star Giorgio Fini (Luciano Pavarotti in his screen debut) mysteriously loses his voice before a performance in Boston, he goes to see throat specialist Dr. Pamela Taylor (Kathryn Harrold), and the two fall madly in love.

September 28, 2017 • As the superstar tenor's voice grows deeper and darker with age, he's still able to float notes of pillowy softness on his new album devoted to French opera.

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.

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.»

The idea that the fate of this little racehorse that could (and ultimately, even the idea that the horse is an underdog is a bit of a cheat, since Seabiscuit's lineage was sterling — less «underdog» than «underachiever») galvanized a nation reeling under the Great Depression is the only idea that remains in the film, seized by Ross as an opportunity to insert archive stills of the period — complete with voice - over from historian David McCullough — to lend his horse opera the sort of gravitas he's not able to provide through narrative.

Tone - deaf opera lover Florence Foster Jenkins — subject of an upcoming biopic starring Meryl Streep — is also the inspiration for this lavish French period piece about a rich French aristo labouring under a pathetic self - delusion: that she has the voice of an angel, rather than that of a strangled cat.

The center's one colorful character is a tank - topped man who belts out opera tunes till his voice cracks.

In the 1930s, the deluded diva sang at private recitals in New York, warbling opera, blissfully unaware that her hilariously awful singing voice might shatter the chandeliers at any moment.

Now this furry, funny avenger — voiced by bona fide movie star Bradley Cooper — is front and center in a space opera that takes the multibillion - dollar Marvel movie megafranchise far away from the Earthbound world of Iron Man and The Avengers.

Another sequel to a special - effects - heavy hit has emerged to challenge the mighty space opera — and on this second weekend of 2018, to send it screaming from its perch, like a force - endowed farmboy nosediving off a catwalk to reject the influence of his basso - voiced, black - clad father.

At Paris's Opera Populaire in 1870, a young, clear - voiced soprano named Christine Daaé (Emmy Rossum) leaps from the ranks of Madame Giry's (a somber, heavily French - accented Miranda Richardson) ballet chorus to the center stage spotlight, thanks to the tutelage of a mysterious teacher — the titular Phantom (Gerard Butler), a musical genius whose facial disfigurement keeps him living behind a mask and deep in the tunnels underneath the opera house.

The 1951 version, which stars Ezio Pinza of «South Pacific» fame, enlarge the story's opera elements to take advantage of Pinza's voice.

I tried to pay close attention, but the plot is a mess of loose threads, acronyms and soap opera ridiculousness, with adequate voice acting at best, and very poor dialogue at worst.

Johnny Depp handles the lyrical and melodic complexity of Sondheim's songs well (Far from opera, he and Helena Bonham Carter use character - based voices), but his Todd is always a morose blank, whether he's brooding over memories of his lost family, slashing the throats of the general populace, or even participating in Mrs. Lovett's daydream of a potentially happy life together.

Though the operatic dissonant relationship between Jean Valjean and Russell Crowe's Javert does prove to be compelling opera as it weaves throughout the rest of the story, the film's second act focus on the story of rich pretty boy Marius (Eddie Redmayne, whose singing voice is 45 percent Kermit the Frog) falling for Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) at first sight doesn't register nearly the same amount of urgency, feeling like a silly problem that doesn't fit into the story's near - apocalyptic presentation of revolutionary France.

Given the all - consuming love of the environment, having Baez perform the theme song «Rejoice in the Sun,» and «Silent Running» gave major hippy street cred to this quite moving space opera, her lilting voice carrying potent, rhythmic imagery of children running through the grass, earth between their toes to reap a cosmic harvest, especially when these tunes» potent moral message is given gossamer orchestrations for the guitar and piano.

He himself plays a role in the film as an uncomfortably retired opera director who flies with his wife (Judy Davis) to Rome to meet his future son - in - law and discovers that the boy's undertaker father (Fabio Armiliato) has a great singing voice — but only when he's singing in the shower.

-- 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.

Full of the glamour, wit and delicious twists that are the hallmarks of Beatriz Williams» fiction and alternating between Sophie's spirited voice and Theresa's vibrant timbre, A Certain Age is a beguiling reinterpretation of Richard Strauss's comic opera Der Rosenkavalier, set against the sweeping decadence of Gatsby's New York.

VOICES OF OPERA Minnesota Opera, Minneapolis, MN Minnesota Opera has just begun their fourth Creative Aging...

A DIVA»S DESTINY In the opening scene of Alexander Chee's lush historical novel, The Queen of the Night, read by Lisa Flanagan, it's 1882, and Lilliet Berne, a famed soprano whose rare, fragile voice has made her the toast of the Paris opera scene, walks into a ball at the Luxembourg Palace.

The beautiful voice of the gifted African American opera singer comes alive in this clear, concise, and lyrical biography.

The Visalia Opera Company is a non-profit artistic company whose mission is to bring world class opera to our region by exposing local citizens, especially our young people, to the art of opera and the beauty of voice.

It's a soap opera dramatization of history, giving renown figures Hollywood voice actors and side quests to hand out.

We all know that one person, who can describe a fist fight against a real - life latex - clad alien in the basement of Area 51 and make it sound like a script of a Mexican soap opera being read in the voice of the «guy on the couch «from «Half Baked».

- Super Mario: GameJew's Opera: The perceptive Dessgeega has been critiquing a fun new project: «jonathan mann's (gamejew) super mario opera adds lyrics - voice - to the koji kondo melodies we've heard many times, giving us an existentialist drama about a simple man, a worker and lover, drawn by forces he can not control toward the right side of the screen.

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

Reflecting a central aspect of her work; the role of the voice and the feeling of mourning or loss, resilience and survival, in the political and historical, individual and collective, Cammock wants to focus on how emotion is expressed in Italian culture and society, with a particular focus on opera, classical and folk music, art, poetry, writing and dance.

«Ashes» (2018) Written for two voices and two loop pedals, electronics, harp, violin, cello, flute, piano and clarinet, the opera explores themes of personal and collective vulnerability.

On a dark and chilly top floor, a hologram of Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster in the guise of the opera singer Maria Callas (OPERA [QM.15], 2016) produces an eerie dissonance between a spectral body seen at a distance and the disembodied proximity of Callas's vopera singer Maria Callas (OPERA [QM.15], 2016) produces an eerie dissonance between a spectral body seen at a distance and the disembodied proximity of Callas's vOPERA [QM.15], 2016) produces an eerie dissonance between a spectral body seen at a distance and the disembodied proximity of Callas's voice.

He has a recording that is simply, «jae jae nah nah nah,» and we played that in the gallery space, and then we all joined him in chanting, creating a temporary opera of Beuys» basic chant with two double bases and three voices.

At the same time, through the operatic delivery, the performances test the speeches» original functionality, making them in - operative, while exploring the role of the spoken word as it is mediated across a continuum of expressivity: from the weighty depths reached through the grain of the voice to the artificial diction endemic to the language of opera and political speech alike.

In his histrionic drag soap opera Conversations wit de Churen VII: L'il Myron's Trade, Kalup Linzy lip - synchs to his own recorded voice as animated sequences recount a tragicomic tale of love on the DL.

While music critic Alex Ross described Corey's voice as «baroquely unclassifiable,» a recent article said he was «equally at home in the opera house, the concert hall and the performance - art space.»

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

Set in New York City's Times Square, the intimate one - person opera is scaled to dramatic proportions within this most public of settings, giving a candid and global voice to the social and cultural trauma of South African racial politics and migrant labor; a woman's anguish explodes on the streets of New York as an operatic monument to lamentation.

The term «entertainment and advertising industry» captures: live or broadcast performances; visual, audio or audio - visual recordings of performances, and performances of any kind, including theatre, dance, ice skating, comedy, musical productions, variety, circus, concerts, opera, modelling and voice - overs.