(n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain’s Got Talent review – Simon Cowell is looking like Caligula after a dull day at the Coliseum Read more The show, won last year by boy band Collabro, began eight years ago with 4.9 million viewers, rising to 8.8 million for its second series launch before hitting the 10 million mark for the first time in 2009 with 10.3 million.
(2) In the course of further discussions, ENO expressed a wish to develop an approach and plan which would incorporate the lower planning figure while maintaining a full season at the Coliseum.
(3) It moved to the Coliseum only in 1968, for example.
(4) Liverpool Empire (0870-606 3536), to 22 November; Coliseum , London WC2 (020-7845 9300), 7-18 January.
(5) In 1990, on Nelson Mandela’s first trip to the US after being released from prison, he spoke at the Oakland Coliseum, acknowledging the Campaign Against Apartheid – one of the leading campus divestment organizations – and thanking the American students who had held firm in the divestment campaign.
(6) We will work, too, with the wider community outside the Coliseum, to develop emerging talent and new audiences.
(7) It's the Detroit Tigers vs the Oakland Athletics at O.co Coliseum in the fifth and final game of the ALDS .
(8) I am delighted that he has joined us at a time of great change for the company.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ENO will on Thursday announce a pared-down 2016-17 season, with eight operas at the Coliseum in London.
(9) We also suggested that the company explore ways to make the Coliseum into a more viable operation, recognising the important national role the Coliseum plays as a venue for both opera and ballet .
(10) It could be that Kramer gets that balance right for ENO, and proves to be genuinely imaginative in what he programmes at the Coliseum and, one hopes, in other spaces .
(11) His work in opera is quite limited to date – he is currently working at the Coliseum on ENO’s forthcoming Tristan and Isolde , which opens in June, but his previous experience consists of half a dozen shows, two for ENO – Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy at the Young Vic , and Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle in the main house – together with Carmen for Opera North , Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna in Manchester and Pelléas et Melisande and Die Zauberflöte elsewhere in Europe.
(12) He points out that before the Coliseum, there were no other dance festivals in the US on anything like that scale.
(13) Sanders packed the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Madison, filling its 10,000 seats to show his bid to snatch the Democratic nomination from frontrunner Hillary Clinton isn’t a longshot.
(14) They’ve made me the person I am.” La Sylphide, performed by Queensland Ballet , is at the Coliseum, London, 4-8 August.
(15) Under the television lights at the North Charleston Coliseum, where Trump yet again took pride of place in center stage and Cruz stood right beside him in recognition of his second-place ranking, the senator accused the billionaire of peddling “extreme” “birther issues” that only four months ago Trump himself had dismissed as immaterial .
(16) Presumably, though, he will also want to continue his wider directing career in parallel with what he does at the Coliseum, and in choosing someone for what will be a key role in the coming seasons, but for someone who may well be away from the company for significant periods of time, the ENO board is taking a calculated risk.
(17) In 2009, he directed Bartok’s only opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, at the Coliseum and is currently directing Tristan and Isolde for ENO, opening in June.
(18) Cressida Pollock, the former McKinsey consultant who is now ENO’s chief executive, has come up with a new business model which will, in the short term at least, see fewer productions at the company’s home, the London Coliseum.
(19) Also bizarre was the sewage "mystery mass" at Oakland's Coliseum which sent umpires, Mariners and A's scurrying for higher ground – which happened to be the Raiders locker room.
(20) Festival theatre , Edinburgh (0131-529 6000), 13 December to 3 January; Birmingham Hippodrome (0844-338 5000), 28 November to 13 December; Coliseum , London WC2 (020-7845 9300), 11 December to 4 January.
Colosseum
Definition:
(n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subtle lighting gives a magical beauty to the assorted ruins below, the Colosseum looming in the background.
(2) Free entrance to citizens of the EU who are under 18 or over 65 Villa Celimontana and Parco del Celio on the Celio Hill Photograph: Alamy The Celio hill – up above the Colosseum and a good place to escape to if you are flagging from the rigours of visiting the archaeological heart of the city – boasts numerous Roman remains, several very early churches and two interlinked parks.
(3) For the bigger sides they take place at unique landmarks: The Colosseum, Trafalgar Square, Brandenburg Gate, Champs-Élysées and so on.” With one very noticeable exception, however.
(4) How they line up AEG Owner Controlled by Philip Anschutz, for sale with $10bn price tag Selected venues London O2 Arena, Staples Centre in Los Angeles, Colosseum at Caesar's Palace, Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane Artists Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, America's Got Talent tour Festivals Coachella, New Orleans Jazz Festival, RockNess in Scotland Sports LA Galaxy, LA Lakers, ESPN X Games, Barclays ATP World Tour finals, media partner with owner of Tour de France Live Nation Owner Listed company with $2bn valuation Results for 3 months to end of September Revenues: $1.96bn Adjusted operating income: $202.4m Attendance at concerts outside US: Up 29% yr-on-yr to 4.27m Biggest ticketing artists of 2012 (in order) Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, Coldplay, Jay Z, Westlife, Metallica UK festivals Wireless, Hard Rock Calling, Creamfields, Latitude, Download
(5) The Colosseum still stands, the Trevi fountain still sparkles and 91 former Popes still rest peacefully in their tombs at St Peter's Basilica.
(6) For Dene Hofheinz Anton, there are echoes in this trip of her father’s Astrodome-related fact-finding missions during its development, visiting Rome to learn about the Colosseum and the dome-shaped Palazzetto dello Sport basketball stadium.
(7) Many did flock to the colosseums to see His blade flash and dab down to third man for a couple.
(8) John’s gingerbread Colosseum was amazing,” says Sue.
(9) They include Gambardella's enviable flat near the Colosseum (which is not, however, open for visits), the Janiculum hill and the ancient Caracalla baths.
(10) But he was missing that spark of invention that Whaite and Morton were able to conjure up, whether creating a gingerbread barn or a colosseum.
(11) While passengers at Tiburtina, one of Rome’s main train stations and just a 10-minute ride from the Colosseum, tinkled on the station’s piano or stopped off for an ice cream, outside there were more urgent matters at hand.
(12) And, having witnessed two closures last month of the Colosseum due to wildcat strikes , he is also keenly aware of the capital's need to improve and capitalise on the showcasing of its cultural treasures.
(13) Now, though, he wants to turn his attention to the less lovely parts of Il Bel Paese, far from the Colosseum and the Rialto bridge: the suburbs.
(14) Over time, challenges became more perilously architectural – a croquembouche (choux puff tower) in season two, and in season three a gingerbread building (the eventual winner, John, re-created the Roman Colosseum).
(15) That the pair want to be seen together is obvious – nobody goes on a date to the Colosseum in an effort to avoid crowds – but it is Swift who has been the lightning rod for the ridiculous commentary on it.
(16) But after 30,000 strikers forced the closure of the Colosseum on Friday as they marched in Rome against the government's public sector cuts, political support for austerity in the eurozone's third-largest economy is looking increasingly fragile.
(17) AEG controls a glittering array of assets including London's O2 Arena, the Colosseum at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, and festivals including Coachella in California, owns David Beckham's former club LA Galaxy, and is an investor in the LA Lakers basketball team.
(18) After catching malaria from a mosquito bite in the Colosseum, she fell desperately ill and for many months seemed close to death.
(19) The disruption even spread to the Colosseum, which temporarily shut its doors to visitors after staff walked out.
(20) He has turned the road around the Colosseum into a partially-pedestrianised area and has closed a highly controversial landfill site.