Sentences with phrase «singing arias»

With the new Bing Concert Hall opening on the Stanford campus in a couple of months, Connie Wolf, the new director of Stanford's Cantor Arts Center, thought it would be cool to present a music - filled work of art: Christian Marclay's «Video Quartet,» a four - screen work that splices and juxtaposes sonic moments of all kinds from hundreds of movies - people tap dancing and singing arias, explosions and door knocks, Kirk Douglas in «Young Man With a Horn» and Jimi Hendrix in concert - in a 14 - minute video that floored New York Times critic Roberta Smith when she saw it in 2003.

Can Second Life avatars singing arias be far behind?

When I'm not singing camp songs, you can catch me singing arias for my music major or camping out at a local coffee shop to prove some theorems for my math major.

To hear him sing the aria «Great Bear and the Pleiades» from Peter Grimes» the text suspended on a single pitch as Benjamin Britten's harmonies spin around it like constellations» was to be taken to some height from which the whole miserable panorama of human suffering was for a moment laid bare to our view.

He was an educated man, apt to discuss literature and sing an aria in a tenor voice.

A diminutive theater built into the caravan's exterior presents a little man playing the piano and a tiny diva who sings an aria from Tchaikovsky's opera «None but the Lonely Heart.»

The pieces were originally conceived for the La Fenice opera house in Venice, and Philip Miller has constructed the music using the sound of an orchestra tuning, and a singer, Nokrismesi Skota, singing an aria.

Not exact matches

It contains a rollicking soprano aria, «My faithful heart, rejoice, sing, be glad.»

A searing aria based on Donne's sonnet and sung by Gerald Finley in the role of Oppenheimer is the high point of Doctor Atomic.

(How about an opera singer singing an actual aria?)

One of the singers, played by Christa Theret who appears in a duet for charity at the Dumont mansion, is terrific, but her spell disappears as soon as Marguerite sings her favorite aria, Mozart's «Queen of the Night» from «The Magic Flute,» failing to hit the high notes and for that matter the other notes as well.

There are more new songs composed for Condon's film, among them a flashback «Aria» sung by Audra McDonald, and «Days in the Sun,» sung by the enchanted objects, fulfilling a narrative function similar to that of «Human Again» (cut from the animated film, reinstated for the Broadway musical, which ran nearly 5,500 performances).

Woodhull states her position in an aria she sings when she declares her candidacy at Steinway Hall.

Fourteen robust arias and duets sung in English were selected for their appeal to children from operas by Bizet, Offenbach, Verdi, Mozart, Delibes, Rossini, Gilbert & Sullivan and Humperdink.

The Aria Hotel Budapest sings with excitement the moment you pass through the door of the original 1880s exterior into its modern decor.

This work is both intellectual and sexy... it sings like a Puccini aria but is timed and tuned like a Philip Glass minimalist opera.

On view is the film «Addio Del Passato» (So Closes My Sad Story) in which the character of Lord Nelson's estranged wife, sings the eponymous aria from the last act of Verdi's opera, «La Traviata».

At the other pole of the musical experience, Dominique Gonzalez - Foerster gives us Maria Callas singing three beautiful arias, live at the Store.

This exhibition features his film Addio del Passato (2011), in which Frances Nisbet, the estranged wife of Lord Nelson, mournfully sings the final aria as Violetta from Verdi's opera La Traviata.

In the back gallery on view is the film Addio Del Passato («so closes my sad story») in which the character of Frances Nisbet, Lord Nelson's estranged wife, sings the eponymous aria from the last act of Verdi's opera La Traviata.