nonoperatic

The operatic spirit carried into nonoperatic films as well.

The number of orchestral, nonoperatic vocal and chamber works, for which I have no figures, must be staggering.

"The Medium" played for 211 performances before nonoperatic Broadway audiences in 1947.

The other disk is a conglomeration of familiar and fringe names in nonoperatic offerings.

"But we also have done nonoperatic works that develop different skills, sensibilities and playing techniques, like contemporary works."

He has already created a new October festival that focuses on symphonic and nonoperatic choral work.

Tchaikovsky's popularity in nonoperatic fields probably greased the road for "Onegin."

And whether the blend of operatic and nonoperatic voices adds up to a coherent performance.

And there are similar signs of retraction and retrenchment in its nonoperatic activity.

And then there's the nonoperatic, non theatrical way she characterizes herself: 'I'm actually a gospel singer."

Perhaps the most newsworthy nonoperatic event was the return of Van Cliburn to the concert stage after an 11-year retirement from public performance.

The company has turned to a commercial producer in Mr. Nederlander, and cast the principals with mostly nonoperatic voices.

Though Mr. Beeson has composed more than 110 nonoperatic works, he clearly considers himself among the hopelessly attracted few.

Perhaps misjudging the hall's modest, nonoperatic size, she frequently forced her voice into a nasal edginess that detracted from the music's lyricism.

But the recently published New Grove Dictionary of Opera (four volumes, $850) is, in this respect, thoroughly nonoperatic.

Between the Schoenberg and Brahms, Mr. Levine offered another operatic glimpse of a nonoperatic score.

David Schweizer's stage direction is up against what is essentially a nonoperatic subject, one that not even Christopher Akerlind's dramatic flashes of light can rescue.

For Casella and Malipiero, the dearth of nonoperatic music at home was remedied by periods of study and residence in Paris.

Next January, the Metropolitan Opera will present her in concert, the first by a nonoperatic performer since Vladimir Horowitz played there in 1986.

Her performance, even more than those of the actors, reminded one that Mr. Sondheim's limited, nonoperatic vocal ranges by no means deprive his music of expressivity.

While most of next season's plans were already in place before his arrival, Mr. Gelb has made his mark by bringing in directors with mainly nonoperatic experience.

Mr. Caines takes a romantic approach in his exploration of Mozart's nonoperatic vocal music that features canons, nocturnes, canzonettas and lieder.

The two Pasolini portraits as well as a heavy amethyst-colored glass necklace date from 1969, when Callas played Medea in a nonoperatic film of Euripides' play.

The La Scala Orchestra's concert last fall of nonoperatic Puccini conducted by Riccardo Muti was held, for example, in San Frediano.

Also highly valued as a nonoperatic conductor, he was particularly known in the concert hall for his renditions of the orchestral works of of Felix Draeseke and Strauss.