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opera
1. Joanna and Jed have been an on-going soap opera as long as I have known her
2. "Has anyone been to any good opera houses lately?" Andrew asked
3. Golf treated it as a cross between reality TV and a soap opera
4. swelled, her timbre said it all: opera
5. I awoke at several times, and heard Beethoven, Hayden and some opera that I couldn’t
6. Sophisticated Americans, or those who fancy themselves as such, may oftentimes try to imitate or adopt European manners without quite succeeding in pulling it off; much in the manner of a saloon girl vested in all the gaudy trimmings feigning respectability at the opera house!
7. ’ I think it was Beverly Sills, the opera singer, who said, ‘There are no shortcuts to any place worth going
8. Of course, I was going to be an opera singer
9. Maybe concert singing was a bit dilettante compared to being an opera singer – now that was an absorbing life
10. This became so commonplace that the question wasn’t “Who’s going to win,” but “Who’ll be second?” Lucretia was, of course, always going to win, in each category: opera, lieder and traditional
11. She encouraged me to enter and coached me in the techniques of singing in the three different genres required: opera, art song, traditional
12. I told him about my plans: that the teaching course wasn’t my idea but something to be got over with before starting my career as an opera singer
13. Upon hearing me audition, the Israeli conductor exclaimed, “Ah, at last I have the soprano I need!” For years he'd wanted to produce the opera La Bohème
14. Students of the private opera school I’d joined had all sung their piece
15. When I met her in January 1971, telling her that I wanted to sing opera, she replied in her characteristic blend of Dutch and Afrikaans, “No
16. Opera bores me
17. A notice appeared of an opera school, associated with the country’s largest opera company, being started in Pretoria (in those years a drive of one and a half hours from the town where I lived near Johannesburg)
18. Pretoria, the capital city, had recently inaugurated its own opera house, with facilities on a par with most great centres of the world
19. To get to the opera was a ten minute drive from our house: a couple of miles down one street straight into town and into the underground parking lot
20. My friend, the retired priest with the glorious bass voice whose beautiful singing always gives me shivers (he could have been an opera singer), was still trying to pull himself out of his chair
21. Had there been any value in all that idealism: those purposes to sing and to create beauty in every aspect of my life? Opera was my great love, but instead of getting to sing the music, I’d been given the plots of several operas to live
22. The mysterious letters had drawn more interest from listeners, who were following the saga like a soap opera, and Sierra was glad to provide them with updates
23. The Lone Star Ballet, Amarillo Opera, and Amarillo Symphony perform in the distinctive 1,279 seat Globe News Center for the Performing Arts
24. The Atlantis sought to demonstrate this in its exhibit Body Parts by Germany’s Gunter von Hagens, whose name sounds like a character escaped from a Wagnerian opera
25. They spotted unharmed islets of green and luxurious bushes, sandy sea arms, attractive suburban ports with their pleasant beaches, numerous boats of all types and sizes, the city’s distinct silhouette with its magnificent tower and world-famed historic structures such as the stunning landmark Opera House and the Bridge
26. Towards Circular Quay’s extreme end shines the internationally and really exquisite and impressive Opera House, one of the most renowned and active artistic centers in the world
27. According to the guide, who lacked the humor to entertain instructing and the words to instruct entertaining, that imposing structure is used eight months for opera and three months for ballet dancing
28. This time, however, they stayed two days in that city so that Roger could see Alarcón’s place of birth and the surroundings where he conceived his world-known “El sombrero de tres picos” (The Three Corner Hat), a short story jewel that Manuel Falla composed into an opera
29. Here, as part of the group’s activity, Roger indulges his literary curiosity with a visit to Juliet’s house (for Romeo and Juliet supposedly lived in Verona), and Lucille satisfies her musical itch by going to the opera at the city’s majestic “Arena”, a centuries-old Roman amphitheater with a gigantic stage that lends itself to the massive numbers of persons and animals in the production of “Aida”, a frequent summer presentation
30. "Won't be singing much opera, I guarantee
31. abandoned in the courtyard of the Opera of Florence’s Cathedral, and it had a
32. But didn't she recall mobsters often enjoyed opera? Certainly that memory related to Italian opera, and this Trask person probably wasn't in the Mafia specifically, having a hard-sounding guttural name—therefore German music might be appropriate
33. Opera she knew more by reputation than direct scrutiny
34. wrapped up in a rock opera
35. paintings for some, the old masters for others; opera for some, operetta for others, etc
36. His exhilaration continued through an early tea, and when he asked obliquely about my sex life, I told him I had a date with someone at the opera that night
37. Not someone too afraid to be seen with me in public in case their brother or cousin or aunt saw us and put two and two together! I wanted someone with whom I could discuss the ‘meaning of life’, disagree and argue about an opera performance or tennis match
38. As he left he said he’d organise three tickets for Coppelia at the Opera House the following afternoon
39. So why after 107’s of years of living together on 106’s of space battle cruisers, which housed cities, farms, art galleries, opera houses, and coffeehouses, did they remain slightly ill at ease with each other? 1 problem with these very highly evolved races is that they just didn’t talk about those sorts of things
40. One night she told them, when Joe had escorted her home after their performance in the light opera, he returned home to his lodgings having forgotten the door key
41. Her body concealed the view of the television, but Philip could hear the faint voices of soap opera actors reciting their lines as if by rote
42. Our opera as
43. Elizabeth’s favourite story though, was the story of “Turandot”, which grandma always related to her with the music of the opera playing in the background
44. She particularly loved the Chinese Folk-Song “Jasmine Flower” which was used throughout the opera to foreshadow appearances by Turandot
45. there is an old Family tradition started by the matriarch Marie based on the Opera story of “Turandot”, a mythical Chinese princess who had vowed to avenge the rape and brutalisation of an ancestress
46. ’ she told James how the music from the Opera had virtually become a Family Anthem …
47. particularly the traditional Chinese folk song “Jasmine Flower”! Also, as a matter of interest, “Turandot” had become the National Opera of Korea…perhaps this is an omen that Hu Lyang (whom we have discovered to be Korean) should think about! - especially the aria “Nessun dorma” (None shall sleep)…
48. I went to see Phantom of the Opera with a wonderful
49. Origin: This term comes from the opera in the eighteenth century, when many of the lead singers were large women and they would sing the finale
50. “Yeah, you wanted to take Becky and I told you that she couldn’t appreciate a good opera if it bit her on the-“
