Fry's most notable composition was the opera Leonora, which received mixed reviews upon its opening and was criticized for its debt to Vincenzo Bellini's bel canto style.

But at the level of textual action there is the more complex scenario I have discussed elsewhere and will merely glance at below: the scenario centered on the protagonist's fear of his own sexuality, on his need to defend himself against self-distrust and guilt, and on the conflicted nature of his relation to Una and her quest suggested by the opening stanzas of canto 1.

On 31 May 2010, the Coronation Street opening sequence was given a revamp.

The clip is incorporated into the series ' opening credit sequence from the third season onward.

Another version is the Collector's Edition, a two-disc set featuring a remastered transfer with a 5. 1 audio track, two commentaries ( one by John Carpenter and Kurt Russell, another by producer Debra Hill and Joe Alves ), a making-of featurette, the first issue of a comic book series titled John Carpenter's Snake Plissken Chronicles, and a ten-minute deleted opening sequence.

The portly Hung is shown fighting Lee in the opening sequence of the movie and Chan shows up as a henchman when Lee is discovered inside Han's underground lair.

The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original screenplay drafts as Bruce Lee revised much of the script himself, including having written and directed the film's opening Shaolin Monastery fight sequence.

Initially, the opening sequence included all five characters from the original film, but, in an effort to save time and money, all but Ash and Linda were cut from the final draft.

In the opening sequence of the first game, the Four Freedoms are displayed in text version as a splash screen at the opening of the game, with a fifth freedom added: The freedom to protect the other four — by any means necessary.

The opening sequence ( including shots of the Plassey ship wreck ) were filmed over Inis Oírr – the smallest of the Aran Islands.

While the rest of the series does not do this as much as the first, there are still a few cases that it happens, such as the opening sequence of Resident Evil 4.

* The name and opening sequence to the popular American animated sitcom Futurama was derived from the exhibition.

The company replaced the opening with a generic credit sequence, using footage from Son of Godzilla.

* Deleted: The opening credits sequence.

* There is a feature on the DVD simulating the Omega 13, by reversing the opening sequence to the main menu.

Occasionally, an image is deliberately windowboxed for stylistic effect ; for example, the documentary-style sequence of the film Rent suggest an older-format camera representing the 4: 3 aspect ratio, and the opening sequence of the Oliver Stone film JFK features pillar boxing to represent the 1960s era 4: 3 television footage.

Other defining recordings include " Sugar Town ", the 1967 number one " Somethin ' Stupid " ( a duet with her father ), the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood such as " Jackson ", and her cover of Cher's " Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down )", which features during the opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

The opening sequence of the story revolves around a war between the planets Garissa and Omuta, both of which claim ownership of a tremendously valuable set of asteroids called the Dorados.

Although only a minor hit when first released, when used in the opening sequence of the movie Blackboard Jungle, a year later, it really set the rock and roll boom in motion.

Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's acclaimed drama Three Times ( 2005 ) is silent during its middle third, complete with intertitles ; Stanley Tucci's The Impostors has an opening silent sequence in the style of early silent comedies.

This speculation was fueled in October 2004 when the official website startrek. com posted an opening credits sequence in which Scott Bakula recites a modified version of the famous speech, ending instead of with the gender-specific ' man ' or the gender-and species-neutral ' one ' but rather the species-specific ' human ', accompanied by " Archer's Theme ", the instrumental used as the closing credits music for the series.

The draft script's opening sequence took place on the solar observatory with two Rosencrantz and Guildenstern-influenced characters talking shortly before the Romulans ' attack ; Next Generation writer Jeri Taylor suggested that the opening should be something " fun ", leading to the switch to a holodeck promotion-at-sea.

Though strictly a commercial product, Peckinpah's creative touches abound throughout, most notably during the intricately-edited opening sequence when McQueen's character is suffering from the pressures of prison life.

Davis and Panzer were unhappy with Peckinpah's version, which included a grossly distorted opening sequence of two characters making love.

After opening with a glimpse of Mount Ida, an important locus for the history of the Trojan War, Canto LXXVIII moves through much that is familiar from the earlier cantos in the sequence: del Cossa, the economic basis of war, Pound's writer and artist friends in London, " virtuous " rulers ( Lorenzo de Medici, the emperors Justinian, Titus and Antoninus, Mussolini ), usury and stamp scripts culminating in the Nausicaa episode from the Odyssey and a reference to the Confucian classic Annals of Spring and Autumn in which " there are no righteous wars ".

The moon and clouds appear at the opening of Canto LXXIX, which then moves on through a passage in which birds on the wire fence recall musical notation and the sounds of the camp and thoughts of Wolfgang Mozart, del Cossa and Marshal Philippe Pétain meld to form musical counterpoint.

The opening of Canto LXXXII marks a return to the camp and its inmates.

Canto XCI continues the paradisiacal theme, opening with a snatch of the " clear song " of Provençe.

After an opening passage that draws together many of the main themes of the poem through images of Ra-Set, Ocellus on light ( echoing Eriugena ), the tale of Gassire's Lute, Leucothoe's rescue of Odysseus, Helen of Troy, Gemisto, Demeter, and Plotinus, Canto XCVIII turns to the Sacred Edict of the emperor K ' ang Hsi.

The theme of hatred is addressed directly at the opening of Canto CXIV, where Voltaire is quoted to the effect that he hates nobody, not even his archenemy Elie Fréron.

Divus was also used more directly by Ezra Pound in his long poem The Cantos, in particular for the opening Canto I.

The Newbery years were years of unshakeable faith in the possibilities of Argentina, when Rubén Darío wrote in his famous Canto a la Argentina y otros poemas: “ Argentina, your day has come !” These years saw the appearance of tango, Vaslav Nijinsky dancing in the Teatro Colón, the opening of the Buenos Aires Metro, the arrival of Guglielmo Marconi in Argentina in order to carry out the first radio-telephonic communication with Ireland and Canada, the estancieros of Argentina “ throwing butter on the ceiling ” in Paris, and the first appearances of popular idols of sport and art.

** The breech refers to the mass of solid metal behind the bottom of the bore extending to the base of the breech and including the base ring ; it also generally refers to the end of the cannon opposite the muzzle, i. e., the location where the explosion of the gunpowder begins as opposed to the opening through which the pressurized gas escapes.

The treatise begins with the dramatic opening lines, " Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

* September 30 – The Hong Kong MTR begins service with the opening of its Modified Initial System ( aka Kwun Tong Line ).

This image begins the film's opening credit sequence.

* July 2006 – Chevron regains exclusive rights to the Texaco brand name in the U. S. and begins opening up gas stations across the U. S. and sold some of its BP and its Citgo stations in the southeast.

A similar pattern, only a bit more lively, occurs in the bass line in the beginning of the second section, which begins with the opening motif inverted.

Hockey Night in Canada coverage typically begins 30 minutes prior to the opening faceoff of the first game with the pregame show called Scotiabank Hockey Tonight.

Austin Powers in Goldmember begins with an action film opening, which turns out to be a sequence being filmed by Steven Spielberg.

After the opening theme song and opening credits end, the pilot proper begins with the seven castaways waking up on the beached SS Minnow and continues with them performing various tasks including exploring the island, attempting to fix the transmitter, building huts, and finding food.

The film is notable for its almost exclusive use of one set: with the exception of the film's opening, which begins outside on the steps of the courthouse and ends with the jury's final instructions before retiring, a brief final scene on the courthouse steps and two short scenes in an adjoining washroom, the entire movie takes place in the jury room.

Smith sentimentally and poignantly sings the opening lines of " White Cliffs of Dover ", and " We'll Meet Again ", and then ( to avoid lowering the tone ) has to interrupt Jones when he begins to sing, " Hitler has only got one ..."

The parade serves as the official opening of the Stampede and begins shortly before 9 a. m. on the first Friday of the event.

The opening of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov bears a close resemblance to the first theme of Balakirev's Second Overture, while Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia begins with a dominant pedal extending over 90 bars in the upper register of the violins, a device Balakirev used in his First Overture.

The original opening of the show begins with a ringing telephone on Bob's office desk, which he answers with a simple, " Hello?

The opening of this variation appears in the movie Copying Beethoven as the theme of the sonata written by the copyist that Beethoven first ridicules then later, to redeem himself, begins to work on more seriously.

In his opening statement, Arthur begins by mocking the case of the prosecuting attorney ( Craig T. Nelson ) while speaking of the ultimate objective of the American legal system.

The film begins in an unnamed war-torn European city in the late 18th century ( dubbed " The Age of Reason " in an opening caption ), where, amidst explosions and gunfire from a large Turkish army outside the city gates, a fanciful touring stage production of Baron Münchhausen's life and adventures is taking place.

* July 29 – The BBC Television Service begins its coverage of the Olympic Games in London by broadcasting the opening ceremony.

The opening song of The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, " Science Fiction Double Feature ", begins with the words " Michael Rennie was ill The Day the Earth Stood Still, but he told us where we stand ..." (" and Flash Gordon was there in silver underwear, Claude Rains was The Invisible Man ..." etc.

In the opening scene the protagonist begins to reminisce about his youth and remembers the day he was saved from execution in a raid performed by the anarchist cell he would later join.

* Vespers begins with the singing or chanting of the opening versicles Deus, in adiutorium meum intende.

It begins with two long drum rolls, which include the use of the gongs, In addition to developing the Dies Irae and resurrection themes and motives from the opening cry of despair, this section also states, episodically, a number of other themes, based on earlier material.

The opening leaves of the text are lost, so the Passion begins abruptly with the trial of Jesus before Pilate, after Pilate has washed his hands, and closes with its unusual and detailed version of the watch set over the tomb and the resurrection.

The famous opening line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel, Paul Clifford, published this year, begins: