Sentences with phrase «operatic singer»

Florence Foster Jenkins tells the true story of an operatic singer who lacked vocal talent but had an abundance of money.

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.

Not exact matches

As old grudges threaten to undermine past glories and theatrical temperaments play havoc with the rehearsal schedule, it becomes apparent that having four of the finest singers in English operatic history under one roof offers no guarantee that the show will go on.

Jenkins was a real person, a rich socialite and music lover who lived in New York in the early 20th century and enjoyed performing amateur operatics, which is all well and good, except she was a terrible singer: always off - key, probably tone - deaf, and worst of all, she chose really difficult pieces to sing that would have challenged even talented professionals.

As she seeks her betrayer, we are treated to a grand operatic epic, from her Minnesota childhood, her escape to Europe as part of a traveling circus, her flight from the circus to the streets of Paris, then to a ritzy brothel, and finally to her emergence as a great singer and courtesan, with all the requisite reversals of fortune, melodrama and gorgeous costumes, gorgeously described.

In fact, lying within the tunnels are four singers, performing in operatic style fragments of speeches by key actors in the global theatre of recent political history: from Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama, to George Bush and Saddam Hussein.