Sentences with word «operetta»

While not the fateful operetta of a cinematic opus that many of us were hoping for — as impressive as the movie's scope is, it results in indifference just as much as it does eye - popping — Revenge of the Sith is still a masterpiece in its own sense of the term.

French actor Andrex began performing in music halls and operettas in his native Marseilles.

For he came back in July to execute three of the most unforgettable shots in British Open history — an impossible putt, an unforgivable chunk and an unthinkable prayer — and force a playoff with John Daly, who has no feel for operettas about sweet Italians and stomped Rocca flat.

His repertoire covers mostly songs from the Greek operetta genre, a form of light opera, which thrived in the beginning of the 20th century.

Watching Stanley Donen's Deep in My Heart, a biographical musical about the life of famed musical and operetta composer Sigmund Romberg, I was reminded of an observation I once made about Michael Curtiz's Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942): the film doesn't so much have dancing as it does choreographed walking and stylized standing.

And don't get me started on the bit part of a police captain focused on «catching infidelity,» who appears to have wandered in from a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.

Their repertoires spanned a variety of genres including operetta, musical comedy, revues, melodrama and Yiddish adaptations of Shakespeare.

The Merry Widow — Perfectly pleasant Ernst Lubitsch adaptation of the famous operetta starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald.

Though it hints at eventual sorrow, Luke's six - scene operetta about Jesus» birth has no song of lament.

Zarzuela (sarsuela in the Catalan language) is a musical term for a type of Spanish operetta — a colorful, witty mixture of song, dance, and theater.

He composed instant comic songs on any subject given to him and sometimes whole operettas.

Now you can visualize and analyze complex 3D cell models — with Harmony 4.8 software for PerkinElmer Opera Phenix ™ and Operetta CLS ™ high - content screening systems.

I love music of all kinds, especially operettas, ballet, music of all kinds except rap and hard rock.

A composer, pianist, and bandleader, he left his native Ireland for a successful career in music in London in the 1920s, during which he wrote several successful operettas, and then headed for New York.

Best known today for playing Officer Torch in Universal's Flash Gordon serials, American character actor Earl Leslie Askam had studied voice in Italy and appeared in numerous stage operettas prior to making his screen debut in 1930.

His first big break was as Corporal Billy Jester in the 1959 off - Broadway operetta spoof Little Mary Sunshine, which won him both a Theatre World award and a bride (he married Cynthia Baer, one of the show's producers).

Lubitsch's charming operetta, based on Franz Lehar's popular work, features great star turns by Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette MacDonald in their last teaming together.

All this is portrayed in such elementary terms it could be the libretto of a 19th century operetta, or maybe a children's film, were it not so disturbing.

In another eccentric move, Resnais has multiplied the asides delivered to the audience in the original operetta so that the characters address the camera in practically every scene.

Plus a couple of Jeanette MacDonald / Nelson Eddy operettas — two of the better ones.

Their comic operettas, produced by the famed impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte, have even paid for the construction of the Savoy Theatre, where, alas, their latest collaboration, «Princess Ida,» has flopped so badly that even Gilbert's dentist tells him it went on too long.

Immerse yourself in a public bath, drop by a «ruin pub» and catch a show at the lovely Budapest Operetta Theatre.

Z - Move: Oceanic Operetta Pokémon: Primarina Primarina manipulates a huge balloon using its voice, then causes it to explode over its target's head, dealing a lot of damage.

The music too mirrors the duality of the art design, composed of elements both acoustic and synthetic, like an upright piano playing as a voice synthesizer belts out the melody of an old fashioned operetta.

Yet this is far from a gloomy affair, lifted both by performative interventions such as Allora & Calzadilla's rousing mobile operetta and the large - scale theatre designed by David Adjaye.

Watching Stanley Donen's Deep in My Heart, a biographical musical about the life of famed musical and operetta composer Sigmund Romberg, I was reminded of an observation I once made about Michael Curtiz's Yankee Doodle -LSB-...]

This book about the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta is out of print, but used copies can still be purchased.

From rap songs to operettas to science projects, it?s evident people love their spuds.

Spectra Vondergeist, Nefera De Nile, Abbey Bominable, Operetta and boys HoltHyde, Jackson Jekyll are

This palette, along with the New Wave - ish jump cuts and whimsically eclectic soundtrack — bopping from hip - hop to Victor Herbert's operetta «Babes in Toyland» to Beethoven's «Coriolan Overture» — transforms an unsavory world into a sweet and sour confection.

Since he was comfortable working in an operetta style that studio head Louis B. Mayer found most appealing, Pasternak (seen at right) probably seemed a logical choice to produce this light little movie, which was directed by Norman Taurog.

to voice coaching to a showdown between the entire cast and Gilbert when he wants to cut a song that all the actors believe is essential to the operetta and that showcases one of the audiences» favorite performers (Timothy Spall).

«Whom could this operetta offend?»

Aaron Taylor - Johnson's Count Vronsky tells Keira Knightley's Anna that if she won't dance with him, he's «getting out of this operetta» and going home — and with Tom Stoppard penning the screenplay, you know you're meant to hear that word «operetta» in a near - literal sense.

With the exception of Topsy - Turvy, Leigh's beautiful, funny film about the operetta titans Gilbert and Sullivan (in which Spall played the bass - baritone Richard Temple), the director's work has mainly concentrated on the here and now, on the struggles of working folk, couples, and families, and drifters moving through the modern world.

Based on Victor Hugo's hefty classic, and given an operetta treatment that can be soaring and glorious - or, when the lyrics slip into anachronistic vernacular, wincingly lame - this big - budget movie musical summons the mighty forces of CGI to create vast tableaux of castles and monasteries, shipyards and slums, France in the tumultuous first half of the 19th century.

He also wrote music for the 1950 musical «Peter Pan,» 1953's «Wonderful Town» as well as the operetta «Candide.»

Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy Collection: Volume One and Volume Two Release date: Sept. 15 Details: 1935 - 42, Warner Home Video Rated: Not rated The lowdown: Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy were MGM's class act in the 1930s, starring in a series of operettas to give the studio a veneer of class.

Publishers Lunch's Michael Cader may not seem like the kind of guy to hang on the KBoards, but he's watching this operetta pretty carefully.

An iconic village dating back to the 11th century, St. Wolfgang is famous for its operetta and lakeside setting, with a pretty medieval centre and excursions on the historic cog railway and lake steamers.

Sound of Vienna offers up a local extravaganza with music from Mozart and Strauss, operetta, ballet and waltz.

The backdrop to Sigmund Romberg's operetta, «The Student Prince», Heidelberg was the capital of the Palatinate region for many centuries.

Visit to the Lehár Villa and an exclusive concert at the Trinkhalle by Prof. Dr. Wallnig under the theme of «A musical journey from Mozart, Schubert, Haydn to Operetta».

In 2012 they worked with the designer Peter Saville to produce After, after, after Monarch of the Glen, a reinterpretation, via Peter Blake, of Sir Edwin Landseer's famous painting of 1851, and recent years have seen the Studio engaged in projects including an operetta and a new ballet.

The Dust Channel, a video by Roee Rosen projected in Gallery 3, explores ideas of purity, containment, contamination and desire through the format of an operetta set in the residence of a couple whose fear of dirt, dust, or any alien presence in their home takes the shape of a perverted devotion to home - cleaning appliances.