Sentences with phrase «operatic performance»

The Former World, an operatic performance by John Hastings, music incorporating texts by Robert Smithson, Augustine, and others

Unlike certain other recent operatic performance - based works of a much larger scale — remember Ragnar Kjartansson's «Bliss» — Singh's piece has a serious, comprehensive story and stands on its own as a sincere piece of theater.

Recently he produced and performed How to Order a Chocolate Cake at BRIC and on The High Line Park, and his operatic performance Greenhowiwantyougreen at the Whim Plantation and Estate in St. Croix, and the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico in San Juan.

Work to transform part of the Toxteth estate - Granby Four Streets - is in the running for the annual award along with an operatic performance, a study room said to question issues around mental health and a series of dining chairs with fur coats sewn on top.

Those same commentators may not find it any easier this year with a shortlist that also includes Bonnie Camplin, for a project that invited visitors to explore, in a slightly dull - looking study room, what consensual reality is; Janice Kerbel, for an operatic performance work about a character called Doug who experiences nine catastrophic events; and Nicole Wermers, for a show that featured Marcel Breuer chairs with fur coats sewn into them.

Her work DOUG was a one - off operatic performance commissioned by the Common Guild Glasgow and performed in the city's Mitchell Library.

I've reimagined a context for classical operatic performance away from the safe confines of the concert hall towards the unassuming public, in this case, in the heart of Times Square.

Yet it's the way the engine serves up this pace that's truly captivating, the V10 delivering the full operatic performance from growling idle all the way through to its spine - tingling, yowling crescendo at 8500rpm.

The music was equally forgettable, with the exception of one pleasant operatic performance.

But Jackson does a very good job, aided by Benedict Cumberbatch's sinister if operatic performance.

His reflection on the liturgy as the action of Christ the Word made flesh provides a path between the Scylla of the clown Mass and the Charybdis of the operatic performance.

Not exact matches

In response to the overwhelming demand for tickets to Il Divo's April 21 performance in Dublin, the operatic quartet have just confirmed a second Greatest Hits show at the O2 Arena, on April 22, 2013.

And if you're going to Hay, you can relax in the Sky Arts Den where you'll sample daily operatic and jazz performances and take part in creative workshops.

Padilha instead ends up delivering what appears to be an operatic salute to the IDF, crosscutting the raid with Sarah's performance back in Tel Aviv and aligning the troops» efficiency with the choreography of limber bodies in tandem — and the widespread applause that follows.

Though this execution could verge toward the excessively operatic, as in the heavy - handed De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940), these managerial efforts largely paid off, with a variety of fine performances across the generic and national spectrum: a spirited Lien Deyers in the tongue - in - cheek The Company's in Love; Magda Schneider, who also starred in Ophuls» Love Story (Une histoire d'amour, 1933), as the tragically morose Christine in Liebelei, her final despair registered in an extraordinary extended close - up; and acting luminaries James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Robert Ryan, searing in Caught's three - way confrontations.

She had no inkling of how to act for the camera and her performance is predictably stilted and «operatic».

Lady Kenworth, a former operatic singer, is overseeing the orchestra's performance before the Queen, but her husband appears to have connections with an AWOL operative who's become disgruntled with his posting as camp director for the junior spy program.

Gilded with ornate costumes and sets and a rich classical soundtrack, and featuring fearless performances, this operatic melodrama is an extraordinary evocation of reckless emotions and deranged lust, from one of the cinema's great sensualists.

These shows can take the form of operatic concerts, theatrical productions, or any other form of performance art such as dances or recitals.

In 1968 he founded the performance company Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, for which he created such major operatic works as The King of Spain and The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud.

The performance is titled AiR and contains both jazz and operatic elements.

Join us for a performance by Ayesha Tan Jones, combining poetry, trash - instruments and operatics for an apocalyptic post-anthropocene landscape.

Kerbel was nominated for her operatic work Doug which narrates a series of hapless accidents that befall a fictional character using audio recordings, performance and printed matter.

This unique voice is trained with an operatic coach for performances which celebrate «freedom, madness, poetry and savagery».

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.

This Saturday and Sunday, Rhode will reinterpret the Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg's operatic monodrama «Erwartung» in the middle of the bustling tourist hub — a project that represents an unexpectedly classical twist in the artist's practice, which spans sculpture, video, drawing and the occasional performance.