(n.) Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.
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Operatic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Operatical
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(1) On the basis of their experience the Authors conclude that bronchography constitutes an almost indispensable examination for diagnostic purposes in malignant neoplasias, especially in the initial stage, when located outside the field of action of bronchoscopy, and can supply elements indispensable in the preoperative operatability judgement.
(2) That's why Italians talk as though they're singing lovely operatic arias and had a Renaissance, while in Finland conversations so often go like this – First lugubrious man: "This beer's good."
(3) Against a driving operatic score, the camera zooms out from a large government building to reveal features of the area's imagined urban topography: a clock tower, a new airport, an oil refinery, a light-rail system, and a stadium packed with cheering fans.
(4) English National Opera appoints Daniel Kramer as artistic director Read more How far beyond that his knowledge of the repertory and the operatic world goes, I don’t know.
(5) The group’s president, Morton Klein, told the Guardian that Klinghoffer is “an operatic Kristallnacht” that fuels antisemitic attitudes.
(6) But do some musicology, and you find that Iran’s precursor, Persia, has a strong clam to be the originator of the operatic form, with its song and drama tradition of Ta’zieh.
(7) The technique of "placing" the voice in the throat, head, or elsewhere is used in training singers of operatic quality and in vocal rehabilitation.
(8) This distinctive subgenre encompasses the operatic red-earth journey of Priscilla, the heart-wrenching campfire odyssey of My Own Private Idaho , the incandescent howl of The Living End , the wide, open skies of Transamerica and the west-coast desert escapades of this year's Bruno & Earlene Go to Vegas .
(9) This is fundamental, since when considering all tumors of pontocerebellar angle those requiring a totally different approach to treatment than that for acoustic neurinomas must be distinguished from those for which inability to identify them is not of marked importance since their operatibility is identical.
(10) We eventually worked together on a couple of scripts that never came to fruition, and on Aria , a compilation-movie I made consisting of operatic pieces directed by some of the world's greatest directors.
(11) It has divided the critics, who have either praised it for its exuberant, operatic, roaring approach to its material – or derided as a crass, tin-eared rendering of F Scott Fitzgerald's precisely tuned text.
(12) He conceived Ziggy Stardust as a musical before realising he had to sing it himself, and would later shed his estuary yelp in favour of a neo-operatic baritone; his Presley-like cover of Nina Simone’s Wild Is the Wind became a signature song.
(13) The job required him to scour Europe for theatrical and operatic talent that would create a stir around the Royal Mile.
(14) In his memoir Cagney & Lacey … And Me , Rosenzweig, who married Gless in 1991, writes that she "has a mouth on her that men in a naval transportation unit might envy", while Daly "can be a pure diva of operatic proportions".
(15) [The film] aches for more depth and warmth and humour, but this is spectacular sci-fi – huge, operatic, melodramatic, impressive.
(16) But we also have these operatic scenes that no other show, including The Wire, really does.
(17) In January, Van Hove premiered an operatic version of Brokeback Mountain in Madrid (based on Anne Proulx's novella, not the film) and recently took Romans to the Adelaide festival .
(18) The London reviews were mostly favourable, particularly appreciating the self-irony in Gassman's parody of Italian operatic acting.
(19) But I can't help speculating about his fascination with the ruthless libertine, especially since the cast of Amour includes an operatic baritone who was once a notable Don Giovanni: William Shimell plays Huppert's husband, a philandering musician.
(20) Three women held photos of a smiling Achebe as they sang an operatic re-enactment of traditional theatre.