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As the service begins, Cantor Erin Frankel stands behind a wooden podium adorned with an elaborate bouquet of white lilies, and intones the opening strains of the Kol Nidre, a hauntingly beautiful prayer sung in operatically styled Aramaic, accompanied by a professional cellist and choir.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

If you have emotion when you sing operatically, you will not be able to sing.

A Different Tune for Sorvino Bruce Bennett 2011

These are exciting times for the operatically inclined Torinese – who, judging from the audience profile, is just about anyone of any age or class.

A tale of two Italian opera cities 2011

To describe the salt-and-barnacle "Pinafore" as bel canto may be pushing the point, though G&S performances are always best with operatically trained singers.

Gilbert & Sullivan, Parody's Patresfamilias Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

Greenfield's book isn't a blow-by-blow account of how each song was created -- who wrote what, who played that, etc. -- but a leer into a hermetically sealed universe of excess and entitlement, soap-operatically free of consequence until the gendarmes emerge to burst the bubble.

Guilty Pleasures 2010

Against an operatically turbulent Greek backdrop, Mario Draghi gave a polished performance as new ECB president at a press conference following the central bank's surprise decision to cut interest rates.

Central Bank Weighs in With Surprise Cut Brian Blackstone 2011

The yuck factor is, as usual, intense, especially when the games reach their fiery climax, but this miniseries diversion ultimately and not surprisingly lacks the impact of the operatically staged carnage that ended the freshman season of Spartacus in an audacious bloodbath.

Roush Review: Fringe, Supernatural, Spartacus: Friday Night Lights Up 2011

She'd storm the bathrooms and you could hear her voice from behind the closed doors, operatically singing the latest drama.

How the John Edwards Affair Ended Up in the Enquirer 2011

Thanks to Eliot, one line at least of High German may have crept into the consciousness of many an operatically resistant A-level English student: "Oed 'und leer das Meer" – desolate and empty the sea – sung by the shepherd looking out for Isolde's ship in Act 3, as Tristan lies dying.

Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Gergiev Fiona Maddocks 2010

A transcendent godlike artificial intelligence that governs time travel and space-operatically Balkanized all of humanity as a mode of self-defense?

MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010