operatic

After a brief interval, she consulted a fashionable teacher of singing as to whether her voice was strong enough for the operatic stage.

There is where the deep ingenuity of the operatic idea is betrayed.

We touched, in our discourse, upon science, politics, natural history, and operatic singers.

It was about 1710 that the word encore was introduced at the operatic performances in the Haymarket, and very much objected to by plain- going Englishmen.

We had arrived in London at what is called "the height of the season." Among the operatic attractions of that year--I am writing of the days when the ballet was still a popular form of public entertainment--there was a certain dancer whose grace and beauty were the objects of universal admiration.

It's a loss, my dear lady, an irretrievable loss, to the operatic stage!

The house opposite has been taken by operatic people.

"I do think THE WITCHES CURSE, an Operatic Tragedy is rather a nice thing, but I'd like to try McBETH, if we only had a trapdoor for Banquo.

I have no doubt it was meant for a purely operatic Faust.

We saw also an autograph letter of Lucrezia Borgia, a lady for whom I have always entertained the highest respect, on account of her rare histrionic capabilities, her opulence in solid gold goblets made of gilded wood, her high distinction as an operatic screamer, and the facility with which she could order a sextuple funeral and get the corpses ready for it.

They reminded him of the illustrious operatic queens of his early days, whose celebrity was European during a good third of the eighteenth century.