The Romanian composer George Enescu uses the musical saw at the end of the second act of his opera Œdipe to express the death of the sphinx killed by Oedipus.

Escaping to earth, he uses the Tarnhelm to transform himself into a dragon and guards the treasure in a cave for many years before being ultimately killed by Wotan's mortal grandson Siegfried, as depicted in the opera of the same name.

Richard Strauss's 1905 opera Salomé, based on the play by Oscar Wilde, uses a subject frequently depicted by symbolist artists.

" Instead of the grand music and themes of opera, the work uses familiar tunes and characters that were ordinary people.

The show typically uses the traditional soap opera look, featuring constructed sets such as the Forrester Mansion, the Shady Marlin, and the Forrester Creations offices.

The fourth movement of An die Jugend ( 1909 ), for instance, uses two of Niccolò Paganini's Caprices for solo violin ( numbers 11 and 15 ), while the 1920 piece Piano Sonatina No. 6 ( Fantasia da camera super Carmen ) is based on themes from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen.

The work is filled with quotes of other pieces by Shostakovich: the first movement quotes his Symphony No. 1 and Symphony No. 5 ; the second movement uses a Jewish theme first used by Shostakovich in his Piano Trio No. 2 ; the third movement quotes the Cello Concerto No. 1 ; and the fourth movement quotes the 19th century revolutionary song " Tormented by Grievous Bondage " and the aria " Seryozha, my love " from Shostakovich's opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

Katie Yang is a celebrated diva of Cantonese opera, and also a painter who uses quotations from famous Cantonese opera as subjects for her work.

Friedrich von Flotow uses the song in his opera " Martha ," premiered in 1847 in Vienna.

Dmitri Shostakovich also uses a flexatone prominently in his opera The Nose, to characterise the nihilistic schoolteacher in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and in his rarely performed suite Hypothetically Murdered.

Peter Maxwell-Davies uses it in the third movement of his Symphony No. 1, as well as three of them at the climax of his opera The Lighthouse.

Berg uses a variety of musical techniques to create unity and coherence in the opera.

The Death of Moses ( 1992 ) uses Moses ' angry refusal to die as an allegory for the destiny of the victims of the Holocaust ; while the cantata Babylon the Great is Fallen ( 1979 ) and the opera Behold the Sun ( 1985 )— for which Babylon the Great can be considered to be a sketch study — both explore the themes of themes of violent revolution via the texts from the Anabaptist uprising in Munster of 1543.

For instance, Goehr's Arianna uses the libretto of a lost opera by Monteverdi, Arianna abbandonata, and conjures up sonorities reminiscent of the Italian Renaissance.

The genre uses the bangzi ( woodblock ) as one of the accompanying instruments, from which it derives its other name, Bangzi opera.

A 1991 romantic comedy / fantasy film, Delirious, starring John Candy, featured a TV soap opera writer who finds himself in the mythical town from the TV show, and uses a typewriter to change the characters and real-life story.

The opera, written between 1927 and 1928, uses a montage of different styles, including folk music, popular song and atonality.

In novels like Galaxies ( 1975 ) and Herovit's World ( 1973 ), Malzberg uses metafiction techniques to subject the heroic conventions and literary limitations of space opera to biting satire.

After William Goodspeed's death, the opera house fell into disrepair, facing a series of less glamorous uses — from a militia base during World War I to a general store and a Department of Transportation storage facility.

When a play is spoken of as " containing " a breeches role, this does mean a role where a female character pretends to be a man and uses male clothing as a disguise, the reverse of its usage in opera.

The 1980s Aaron Spelling soap opera Dynasty uses outside shots of The Desert Inn as the hotel the main characters use while spending time in Las Vegas.

# Soap Star Jessica and a very reluctant Elizabeth get parts on a Soap opera and the soap's star cruelly attempts to break Jessica's heart, but she uses her character role to break up with him, and to exact revenge on him at the same time.

Pape's 1995 chamber opera Monologue uses as text the Samuel Beckett play A Piece of Monologue ( Makan 2003, 29 – 30 ).

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

* Sir John in Love, 1924 – 1928, an opera by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

The libretto of this opera by Giovanni Schmidt was in many of its incidents an anticipation of those presented to the world a few years later in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth.

More recently Sir Harrison Birtwistle has emerged as one of Britain's most significant contemporary composers from his first opera Punch and Judy to his most recent critical success in The Minotaur.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was first adapted as an opera in 1978 by the composer Richard Blackford on commission from the village of Blewbury, Oxfordshire.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was adapted into an opera called Gawain by Harrison Birtwistle, first performed in 1991.

The opera also resumed touring in April, with two companies crisscrossing the British provinces by June, one starring Richard Mansfield as Sir Joseph, the other W. S. Penley in the role.

Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness ( who never travelled without a Trollope novel ), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, English judge Lord Denning, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay.

On the arts program " Aria and Pasta ," the Durham-born opera singer Sir Thomas Allen ( who retains some Geordie vowels in his speech ) described the dish he prepared as " Geordie Pasta.

At the same time, Britain's Sir Thomas Allen was considered to be the most versatile baritone of his generation in regards to repertoire, which ranged from Mozart to Verdi and lighter Wagner roles, through French and Russian opera, to modern English music.

Leading Australian performers in these fields have included the opera Dames Nellie Melba and Joan Sutherland, dancers Edouard Borovansky and Sir Robert Helpmann, and choreographer / dancers such as Graeme Murphy and Meryl Tankard.

He had been Sir Thomas Beecham's assistant at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, before World War II, and, assuming that he and Beecham would be in charge there again after the war, Legge planned to establish a first-class orchestra for opera, concerts and recordings.

He certainly did nothing to conciliate the favour of the government by his next work, The Beggar's Opera, a Ballad opera produced on the January 29, 1728 by John Rich, in which Sir Robert Walpole was caricatured.

* The English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote Sir John in Love, an opera based on this play in the years 1924 – 28.

In 1976 the Academy acquired the houses situated on the north side and built between them a new opera theatre donated by the philanthropist Sir Jack Lyons and named after him and two new recital spaces, a recording studio, an electronic music studio, several practice rooms and office space.

Under Sir Eugene Goossens ( Director 1948 – 55 ), opera at the Conservatorium made a major contribution to what researcher Roger Covell has described as " the most seminal years in the history of locally produced opera ...".

* Matthew Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge-The Jovial Crew ( opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew )

* Sir William Davenant-Macbeth, a " dramatic opera " adapted from Shakespeare's play, is published

* September-performance of The Siege of Rhodes, Part I by Sir William Davenant, the " first English opera "

" Sir Henry Wood, who had been répétiteur for the production, recalled in his autobiography that " Carte had had a repertory of six operas instead of only one, I believe he would have established English opera in London for all time.

Sir Edward German ( 17 February 1862 – 11 November 1936 ) was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera.

" The great Victorian baritone Sir Charles Santley made his farewell performance at Covent Garden in 1911 in the role of Tom Tug in Dibdin's opera The Waterman.