Sentences with phrase «operatic take»

In 1999, Laurie Anderson mounted her operatic take, Stories and Songs from Moby - Dick, on Melville's classic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

to the screen with his 2007 masterpiece There Will Be Blood, he ripped the original text to pieces and instead delivered a curiously bleak and operatic take on the sparse source material.

Not exact matches

It's like taking a great operatic soprano and making her sing «Happy Birthday.»»

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.

During his first few decades as an actor, Bill Macy took whatever was readily available: poetry - reading jobs, movie bits, comedy - record gigs (he's the operatic cabdriver in the classical music lampoon The Wurst of PDQ Bach) and off - Broadway stage assignments.

Lynne and Joaquin took this page turner, took this tormented character, and as I said last night, made it operatic and multi-dimensional.»

He even segues into a few surreal operatic sequences with hefty naked women, commenting both on cinematic score vs. emotion as well as a simple comment on what we take in our systems as seductive versus what the eye finds as such.

Even the actors take the material, with Jessica Chastain the standout as the operatic Lucille Sharpe.

In Django Unchained (2012), Quentin Tarantino takes on one of his favorite genres: the spaghetti western, with all its extreme violence, operatic drama, eccentric characters, and brutal portrait of frontier existence.

8:00 pm — TCM — Carmen Jones Oscar Hammerstein takes on Bizet's Carmen, transposing it into a contemporary setting at a Korean War army base and writing new lyrics to go with Bizet's operatic melodies.

This past Tuesday at a lunch on Toronto's Bay Street, after the operatic group, The Tenors, sang the anthem, Prem Watsa, chief executive of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., took the podium.

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

The iconoclasts at Rockstar have finally found a voice — indeed, a set of voices — to give clarity, structure, and operatic scale to the disaffected «fuck you's» they've been muttering since they first envisioned a world where you could just take whatever car you want.

Each boss revels in its own operatic theme, hikes are mellifluously resonant, and many humorous inflections are taken to brighten the mood.

Recommended reading In the London Review of Books, T.J. Clark visits Tate Britain's Paul Nash retrospective, observing that «surrealism, if an artist is to be influenced by it, is best taken in operatic overdoses for a very short time».