Arias

Word ARIAS
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What do we mean by arias?

A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

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The word "arias" in example sentences

But as you might guess, given its appeal to an MTV generation not known for a taste in Italian arias, the show is thoroughly of its own time. ❋ Kay S. Hymowitz (2008)

Many girls think, if they attend two or three voice lessons a week and learn some songs and a few operatic arias, that is all there is to it. ❋ Harriette Brower (1898)

The first appearance of this change is to be found in Cavalli's operas, in which certain rhythmical movements called "arias" which are quite distinct from the _musica parlante_, make their appearance. ❋ J. A. [Commentator] Fuller-Maitland (1892)

When the song is over, to the success of which he feels he has materially contributed, he will inform you that you may talk of your "arias," and your "romanzas," ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

Working with the O. Henry text, she wrote four short "arias," or songs, that Hailstork set to music. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The current performance, which is proving to be one of the longest in the world of opera, includes the arias "O, diese expensen!", ❋ Unknown (2009)

Each one gets one or more of Shange's arias to play in a single take (or nearly so) and Perry wisely keeps his camera on them. ❋ Marshall Fine (2010)

Steffani favours short-form arias (rather than the long da capo kind familiar in Handel), which conjure extreme emotional intensity and slip easily between comic and tragic. ❋ Fiona Maddocks (2010)

Each of the women gets the opportunity to suddenly burst into Shange's poetic arias. ❋ Marshall Fine (2010)

Seeing, in April, hostas unfurl like arias, and tulips, white cups inscribed with licks of flame, gaze feverish, grown almost to my waist, and the oak raise new leaves for benediction, ❋ Unknown (2009)

• A review of a disc of Rossini arias referred to the Sinfonia Varsovia as Sinfonia Varsoviana Lezhneva/Sinfonia Varsovia/Minkowski, 6 May, page 12, Film & Music. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In between some spellbinding arias, especially for the king Anfione – sung by the pale-toned but often exciting male soprano Jacek Laszczkowski – there's the padding, and a dull subplot, you get with any opera from this period. ❋ Fiona Maddocks (2010)

But don't expect a night of Rossini arias: Queens-born Tony Bennett will be taking the stage and singing classics from the Great American Songbook. ❋ Pia Catton (2011)

She negotiates the technical challenges of Fiordiligi's two showpiece arias with enormous skill and confidence and also manages to make the character appealing. ❋ Howard Kissel (2011)

In addition to the polish they bring to the arias, the young singers handle the opera's gorgeous ensemble numbers beautifully, and the orchestra brings out the myriad colors of the score marvelously under the direction of conductor Israel Gursky. ❋ Howard Kissel (2011)

Written as an extended series of conversations, interspersed with spoken dialogue, "Intermezzo" has no big set pieces such as the arias or ensembles familiar from many of his other operas. ❋ AP (2010)

Nevertheless, haul out the superlatives when they sing about their demons -- even on some of their potentially torpid arias! ❋ David Finkle (2011)

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