Sentences with phrase «play opera singer»

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Of course, innate aptitude plays a big role in what any one of us can achieve (for instance, I could practice all day, every day for the next 100 years and never become an opera singer — «Happy Birthday» might even remain a challenge).

In a highly unusual bit of casting, the art scholar is played not by a professional actor, but by a famous opera singer, William Shimmel.

His father was an opera singer, and McTiernan made his theatrical debut at age seven playing bit roles in his father's shows.

Woody Allen plays Jerry, a retired «avant guarde» opera director who discovers his daughters new father in law, Giancarlo (played by tenor Fabio Armiliato), is a natural opera singer — but only in the shower.

Jagger — James, that is — plays Kip, the British expat lead singer of punk act The Nasty Bits, whose evolution from pet project of aspiring A&R scout Jamie (Juno Temple) to potential company saviour is the season's most significant throughline outside of Richie's soap - opera turmoil.

In this film, Meryl Streep plays Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer despite having a terrible singing voice.

He called the Golden Globes «one of the few places left where America still honors the popular vote,» cracked that «in 12 days» we are going to find out what it would be like if Game of Thrones» King Joffrey lived, and joked that even Florence Foster Jenkins, the terrible opera singer recently played by Meryl Streep, wouldn't agree to perform at the inauguration.

This year the queen received her 20th nomination, this time for playing the worst opera singer Florence Foster Jenkins.

Ferguson plays real - life Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind, whom Barnum brings to America to great acclaim.

Playbill Clive Owen will return to Broadway in a revival of M. Butterfly - no word yet on who'll play the Chinese opera singer he doesn't realize is a man despite a long affair.

The primary challenge of any William Kentridge monograph might seem to be getting images on the page to represent the South African artist's oeuvre, which spans performance by puppets and opera singers, immersive film installations, stereoscopic and anamorphic drawings, crank - activated kinetic sculptures that play music (recently on view at Marian Goodman in New York), and virtuosic charcoal - on - paper animations.

To further engage the audience sonically and to play with notions of «high» and «low» art, Newsome worked with two vocalists, one opera singer and one Vogue commentator.

The Franco - Italian singer, who was playing a leading role in Verdi's Aida, walked off minutes into the second night of the opera house's new season.