Seria in a sentence

Chawinga who plays for Inter Milan Women won the Seria A Women Golden Boot Award with 23 goals in 26 games.

Eighteenth-century opera seria—serious opera—called for six main characters; all but Partenope appear to be men.

Firefighters from Seria Fire Station led by ASO Musa bin Aman arrived at the scene at 2.47pm after receiving an emergency call.

Pereyra joined Watford from Juventus in 2016 after winning the Seria A twice.

Seria Co., a ¥100 shop operator, closed eight stores, including one in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, where workers struggled to get there as bus services were suspended.

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) after the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, slapped an indefinite ban on Boateng, a former AC Milan midfielder now playing for Sassuolo, also another Italian Seria A side.

A year later, Ma non è una cosa seria (But It's Nothing Serious) and Il Gioco delle parti (The Game of Roles) were all produced on stage.

By the end of the war, 16 wells at Miri and Seria had been restarted, with production reaching about half the pre-war level.

Christoph Willibald Gluck thought that both opera buffa and opera seria had strayed too far from what opera should really be, and seemed unnatural.

Deviation from the usual model of opera seria, Serse contains many comic elements rare in Handel's other works.

Gluck in a 1775 portrait by Joseph Duplessis The nature and allocation of the arias to the different roles in opera seria was highly formalized.

He advocated that opera seria had to return to basics and that all the various elements—music (both instrumental and vocal), ballet, and staging—must be subservient to the overriding drama.

Heriot chs. 1–3 passim The strictly hierarchical organisation of opera seria favoured their high voices as symbols of heroic virtue, though they were frequently mocked for their strange appearance and bad acting.

His opera Artaxerxes (1762) was the first attempt to set a full-blown opera seria in English and was a huge success, holding the stage until the 1830s.

In his reform operas from Orfeo ed Euridice onwards, he sought to throw off the formal conventions of opera seria and write music of "beautiful simplicity" (his own words).

In opera seria the singing was devoted to superficial effects and the content was uninteresting and stale.

M. F. Robinson describes the standard aria in opera seria in the period 1720 to 1760 as follows: The first section normally began with an orchestral ritornello after which the singer entered and sang the words of the first stanza in their entirety.

Opera seria was elevated in tone and highly stylised in form, usually consisting of secco recitative interspersed with long da capo arias.

Opera seria was the most prestigious form of Italian opera, until Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his "reform" operas in the 1760s.

Orrey, p. 81 Algarotti proposed a heavily simplified model of opera seria, with the drama pre-eminent, instead of the music, ballet or staging.