Sentences with phrase «operetta of»

An Operetta of Sorts, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (2013); Situation Event, Gasworks, London (2013).

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

The impulse to write hit Leon early in life — according to Current Biography, Leon Uris authored an operetta in 1930, at age six, inspired by the death of his pet dog.

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).

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.

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).

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.

Giving the nod to Perhaps Love «s array of musical styles (big Broadway tunes, operetta - style monologues, pop ballads) over Princess Raccoon «s folk eclecticism and Brokeback Mountain «s groovy guitar.

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-...]

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

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.

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

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

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».

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.

An operetta about the Dyson DC07 Vacuum Cleaner, The Dust Channel explores complicated themes of xenophobia from within the private sphere of leisure and pleasure, abundance and perversions, to the State policing and detention of refugees.

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.

The Program in Music Theater brings together students, faculty, and guest artists in the creation, study, and performance of music theater, including Broadway musicals, musical comedy, cabaret, music hall, operetta, singspiel, comic opera, grand opera, chamber opera and experimental music theater.

It is an operetta with a Russian libretto set in the domestic environment of a bourgeois Israeli family, whose fear of dirt, dust, or any alien presence in their home takes the shape of a perverted devotion to home - cleaning appliances.

Strauss's effervescent send - up of Viennese high society is considered a high point of the operetta genre.