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  • No expense had been spared on the setting, which was acknowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienna.   (source)
    opera = (built for) classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
  • I hear she went to the Opera on Monday night,   (source)
    opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
  • They went to plays and operas and concerts in the parks, listened to string quartets and piano recitals in office-building lobbies, attended movie screenings, and visited museums.†   (source)
  • Frank Tinker put his operatic gifts to work as Prince Leander of Pantoland.†   (source)
  • How forgiven I felt, for that instant — how blessed, how filled with grace, as if time had rolled backwards and my dry old wooden cane had burst operatically into flower.†   (source)
  • How do you manage to be best friends with Daisy without liking space operas?†   (source)
  • He was whistling along to an operatic melody that crackled from the radio, winning a smile from Peter.†   (source)
  • DIE OPERN VON RICHARD WAGNER "The operas of Wagner?"†   (source)
  • They tune in to newscasts, concerts, operas, national choirs, folk shows, a dozen children in a semicircle on the furniture, Frau Elena among them, hardly more substantial than a child herself.†   (source)
  • So that's one way classical myth can work: overt subject matter for poems and paintings and operas and novels.†   (source)
  • I went to operas, symphonies, pop concerts and plays.†   (source)
  • The record contained the many overtures from Rossini's operas, including the most well-known The William Tell Overture.†   (source)
  • And so, between operatic encores and Neapolitan serenades, his creative talent and his invincible entrepreneurial spirit made him the hero of river navigation during the time of its greatest splendor.†   (source)
  • Composers of operas used it to symbolize the underworld.†   (source)
  • Our family sometimes went to the Mouth of the Mountain for temple fairs and operas.†   (source)
  • Beneath the cloud of vaporized chemicals, the scene was one of urgency and operatic chaos.†   (source)
  • Librettos of the Great Operas.†   (source)
  • As violent crime began to fall dramatically, New Yorkers were more than happy to heap laurels on their operatic, Brooklyn-bred mayor and his hatchet-faced police chief with the big Boston accent.†   (source)
  • They turn the radio up full blast to hear the operas, which do not seem to hurt their ears.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the frequency of the human voice did something to the tiny atomic substances, such as happened when the famous operatic soprano Dame Ariadne Stretch broke a glass by singing at it?†   (source)
  • Finally, Miss Moore covers their nakedness with a blanket, and Mrs. Nightwing pulls them into the hall, where we can hear her voice rising into a tone that's nearly operatic.†   (source)
  • "Like-a-lazy-bottom!" sang the goose, aspiring to an operatic tremolo.†   (source)
  • And every square inch of ungarnished surface area had been drowned out beneath an operatic application of "disco paint," at one of Rawalpindi's many Bedford workshops.†   (source)
  • She stood defiantly in the frame, no fear whatsoever in her almost operatic voice.†   (source)
  • Even the shy Lyn Ludowyck betrayed his studies and came out there once, turning out to be a superb mimic, singing both male and female parts from Italian operas which the others had never heard of—so they all thought at first that he was singing a Sinhalese baila.†   (source)
  • Do you know I've been going to operas since I was six, Will?†   (source)
  • She had partaken of the arts—road companies of plays and even operas, with their magic and promise of an aromatic world outside.†   (source)
  • Most of them were arias from Italian and French operas—Verdi and Rossini and Gounod—but there was one record that I remember just made me nearly swoon, I loved it so.†   (source)
  • Given the same combination of gifts but other aspirations—an aspiration, for instance, to be an operatic singer—he might have been an unexceptional man: a restless farmer, a timid seducer of hired girls, a small-town choir director, a drunkard.†   (source)
  • Katia has a remarkable talent for music and for acting, she's marvellous at imitating people and she acts out entire scenes that she makes up herself, and she sings whole operatic arias, all by ear.†   (source)
  • The latest vogue was brooch-operas for M'lady.†   (source)
  • The opera music was very loud now Flora looked down at the hand that was on her arm.   (source)
    opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung (or the art form that consists of such musicals; or describing something as related to that art form)
  • Even the opera singer has packed it in for the night.   (source)
  • We listen to the opera singer in a peaceful silence.   (source)
  • The Opera Diva sings most evenings at the restaurant across the street.   (source)
  • Until the opera singer begins her evening routine.   (source)
  • No opera singer, but it's only the afternoon.   (source)
  • It's late, but across the street a woman belts out something operatic.   (source)
    operatic = relating to classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
  • Is the opera no longer of interest to you?   (source)
    opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung (or the art form that consists of such musicals; or describing something as related to that art form)
  • As Gallimard describes the opera, the tape segues in and out to sections he may be describing.   (source)
  • If you wish to see some real theatre, come to the Peking Opera sometime.   (source)
  • I skipped the opera again that week to complete a position paper on trade.   (source)
  • That's probably why I'd never before enjoyed opera.   (source)
  • I stopped going to the opera, I didn't phone or write her.   (source)
  • I asked around, but no one knew anything about the Chinese opera.   (source)
  • It has become the stage for the Chinese opera performance.   (source)
  • Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?   (source)
  • Gallimard, as Pinkerton, lip-syncs his lines from the opera.   (source)
  • Chinese opera music comes up on the speakers.   (source)
  • I was absent from the opera for the seventh week, feeling a sudden urge to clean out my files.   (source)
  • They "beat" her, then lampoon the acrobatics of the Chinese opera, as she is made to kneel onstage.   (source)
  • Song begins to do opera moves, as he did the night they met.   (source)
  • Chinese opera house and the streets of Beijing.   (source)
  • They say in opera the voice is everything.   (source)
  • The opera music ended.   (source)
  • Opera music.   (source)
  • Except for the opera.   (source)
  • Song, playing Butterfly, sings the lines from the opera in her own voice—which, though not classical, should be decent.   (source)
  • I returned to the opera that next week, and the week after that …. she keeps our meetings so short—perhaps fifteen, twenty minutes at most.   (source)
  • Then, slowly, lights and sound cross-fade; the Chinese opera music dissolves into a Western opera, the "Love Duet" from Puccini's Madame Butterfly.   (source)
  • She's an singer in the Chinese opera.   (source)
  • Are you really interested in the opera?   (source)
  • Upstage Song, who appears as a beautiful woman in traditional Chinese garb, dances a traditional piece from the Peking Opera, surrounded by the percussive clatter of Chinese music.   (source)
  • So, what's in their opera?   (source)
  • I'm no opera singer at all.   (source)
  • They have an opera, too?   (source)
  • They ... used to be always seen together at the Opera, and wherever good music was going on.   (source)
    opera = performances of classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
  • I read books about operas and understood the stories.†   (source)
  • She's never seen a bandit; she's thinking of the ones in operas.†   (source)
  • By late evening of my last night in London, my misery has reached operatic proportions.†   (source)
  • Fair Rowan, how I've missed thee," he announced in his operatic basso.†   (source)
  • Here we'll put on operas; we'll sing together and talk-story.†   (source)
  • A dancing girl in her thirties ...No, I remember now ...An operatic singer.†   (source)
  • Heloved drinking rice wine and once he'd had one small glass his voice would rise an octave and he would begin to sing tunes from some of the old Beijing Operas.†   (source)
  • We're dealing in this case, however, with a pretty loose category, which could include novels, stories, plays, poems, songs, operas, films, television, commercials, and possibly a variety of newer or not-yet-invented electronic media we haven't even seen.†   (source)
  • Nineteenth-century composer Richard Wagner went back to the Germanic myths for the material for his operas, and whether the results are good or bad in either historic or musical terms, the impulse to work with his tribal myths is completely understandable.†   (source)
  • That was how things went, in operas.†   (source)
  • It would be easy for us simply to laugh at Freddy Malins, the resident drunkard, and his dotty mother, to shrug off the table talk about operas and singers we've never heard of, merely to snicker at the flirtations among the youngerpeople, to discount the tension Gabriel feels over the speech of gratitude he's obliged to make at meal's end.†   (source)
  • There were no precious instants to lose thinking about the existence or the non-existence of a huge, obese taipan, too operatic to be real.†   (source)
  • Saint-Saens, piano works, gentle and pensive, a change of pace from the gorgeous torment of Bronzini's operas, the tabloid sensation that shatters teacups.†   (source)
  • The walls were papered with dated, now faded murals of Venice, Rome and Florence; the softly piped-in music was predominantly operatic arias and tarantellas, and the lighting indirect with pockets of shadows.†   (source)
  • There was about the huge taipan something a bit larger than life, too operatic, that had nothing to do with his size.†   (source)
  • I spread them out (so black and full of possibilities) and pretended the curtains were swinging open, flying up, one after another, sunlight underneath, mighty operas.†   (source)
  • Usually I did not understand the words in operas, whether because of our obscure dialect or theirs I didn't know, but I heard one line sung out into the night air in a woman's voice high and clear as ice.†   (source)
  • Look at the way they go tearing up to New York and Boston to hear operas and see oil paintings.†   (source)
  • A touring operatic company had come to Oran in the spring for a series of performances.†   (source)
  • He was a star in basketball, captain of the debating club, president of the senior class and the glee club and he sang the male lead in the annual light operas.†   (source)
  • These days Kreindl had operatic nerves and made bitching scenes in his English-basement flat; he threw dishes on the floor and stamped his feet.†   (source)
  • Pearl was to "put over" the popular songs, to introduce the rag melodies with the vital rhythm of her dynamic meatiness, Helen was to give operatic dignity to the programme.†   (source)
  • I was alone in the corridor, troubled and rocky, and trod on slowly to the music room, where the phonograph was playing Caruso, stifled and then clear cries of operatic mother-longing, that ornate, at heart somber, son's appeal of the Italian taste.†   (source)
  • The house opposite has been taken by operatic people.†   (source)
  • It is a wedding chorus from one of Donizetti's operas; but we have converted it.†   (source)
  • "They are sounding the retreat," he says operatically.†   (source)
  • Why did they never play the grand old operas now, he asked, Dinorah, Lucrezia Borgia?†   (source)
  • Presently a bell sounded, the curtains flew apart, and the operatic tragedy began.†   (source)
  • The marquis said that among light operas his favorite was the Gazza Ladra.†   (source)
  • Retired from operatic stage—ha!†   (source)
  • One night, when an operatic artiste had fallen ill, he had undertaken the part of the king in the opera of Maritana at the Queen's Theatre.†   (source)
  • [He begins to sing in a nasal operatic baritone, tremulous from an eternity of misuse in the French manner]†   (source)
  • No country has anything like our number of phonographs, with not only dance records and comic but also the best operas, such as Verdi, rendered by the world's highest-paid singers.†   (source)
  • I asked her whether she had ever heard any of the Wagnerian operas and found that she had not, though she was perfectly familiar with their respective situations, and had once possessed the piano score of The Flying Dutchman.†   (source)
  • On Saturday nights, Mrs. Harling used to play the old operas for us—'Martha,' 'Norma,' 'Rigoletto'—telling us the story while she played.†   (source)
  • He read enormously every night—Shaw, Chesterton, Barrie, Pinero, Yeats, Synge, Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons, Keats, Sudermann, Robert Hugh Benson, the Savoy Operas—just a heterogeneous mixture, for he suddenly discovered that he had read nothing for years.†   (source)
  • She had often told me of Mozart's operas and Meyerbeer's, and I could remember hearing her sing, years ago, certain melodies of Verdi's.†   (source)
  • She sang, of course, "M'ama!" and not "he loves me," since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.†   (source)
  • Their favorite motion-picture theater was the Chateau, which held three thousand spectators and had an orchestra of fifty pieces which played Arrangements from the Operas and suites portraying a Day on the Farm, or a Four-alarm Fire.†   (source)
  • The tip of his nose froze, of course, and he had to hold his book (it was still Ocean Steamships) in terribly numbed, chapped hands, but he could gaze out through the arches of the balcony to the valley, which was adorned with scattered lights that clustered brightly here and there and from which almost every evening, for at least an hour, music came drifting his way, pleasantly muted, familiar melodic airs: fragments of operas, selections from Carmen, Il Trovatore, or Der Freischutz; well-constructed, smooth waltzes as well as marches to which you could jauntily rock your head back and forth; and cheerful mazurkas, too.†   (source)
  • She ultimately was so broken-hearted that she went into a convent, or on to the operatic stage, I forget which.†   (source)
  • He has composed two or three comic operas, written four or five articles in the Siecle, and voted five or six years on the ministerial side.†   (source)
  • Catherine had very little to tell, and she had no talent for sketching; but before he went she had confided to him that she had a secret passion for the theatre, which had been but scantily gratified, and a taste for operatic music—that of Bellini and Donizetti, in especial (it must be remembered in extenuation of this primitive young woman that she held these opinions in an age of general darkness)—which she rarely had an occasion to hear, except on the hand-organ.†   (source)
  • The vapidness of such drama as the pseudo-operatic plays contain lies in the fact that in them animal passion, sentimentally diluted, is shewn in conflict, not with real circumstances, but with a set of conventions and assumptions half of which do not exist off the stage, whilst the other half can either be evaded by a pretence of compliance or defied with complete impunity by any reasonably strong-minded person.†   (source)
  • I saw her often at Richmond, I heard of her often in town, and I used often to take her and the Brandleys on the water; there were picnics, fête days, plays, operas, concerts, parties, all sorts of pleasures, through which I pursued her,—and they were all miseries to me.†   (source)
  • One would have called it a veritable kaleidoscope, a real operatic scene; and for a moment our little locality might have thought itself transported into the midst of a dream of the 'Thousand and One Nights.'†   (source)
  • I am ready to go with Annie to operas, concerts, exhibitions, all kinds of places; and you shall never find that I am tired.†   (source)
  • It struck her second visitor that Miss Archer had, in operatic conditions, a radiance, even a slight exaltation; as she was, however, at all times a keenly-glancing, quickly-moving, completely animated young woman, he may have been mistaken on this point.†   (source)
  • But perhaps the chief pleasure he had in these operas was in watching Emmy's rapture while listening to them.†   (source)
  • They went to the opera often of evenings—to those snug, unassuming, dear old operas in the German towns, where the noblesse sits and cries, and knits stockings on the one side, over against the bourgeoisie on the other; and His Transparency the Duke and his Transparent family, all very fat and good-natured, come and occupy the great box in the middle; and the pit is full of the most elegant slim-waisted officers with straw-coloured mustachios, and twopence a day on full pay.†   (source)
  • Suddenly some one passed below, whistling like an operatic blackbird, and a voice called out, "All serene!†   (source)
  • And so—being, beautiful, witty, somewhat talented, as the comic operas say, and rich—and that is happiness, sir—why do you call me unhappy?†   (source)
  • His manner to Pansy had been of the rightest and easiest—Isabel noticed that for herself, as she also observed that he talked to her not in the least in a patronising way, reminding himself of her youth and simplicity, but quite as if she understood his subjects with that sufficiency with which she followed those of the fashionable operas.†   (source)
  • I do think The Witches Curse, an Operatic Tragedy is rather a nice thing, but I'd like to try Macbeth, if we only had a trapdoor for Banquo.†   (source)
  • It languished a little when the present Duke in his youth insisted upon having his own operas played there, and it is said one day, in a fury, from his place in the orchestra, when he attended a rehearsal, broke a bassoon on the head of the Chapel Master, who was conducting, and led too slow; and during which time the Duchess Sophia wrote domestic comedies, which must have been very dreary to witness.†   (source)
  • They shopped, walked, rode, and called all day, went to theaters and operas or frolicked at home in the evening, for Annie had many friends and knew how to entertain them.†   (source)
  • Returning from one of Mozart's grand operas, splendidly performed at the Royal Theatre, he looked over his own, played a few of the best parts, sat staring at the busts of Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Bach, who stared benignly back again.†   (source)
  • The keeper of the Kildare Street Museum appears, dragging a lorry on which are the shaking statues of several naked goddesses, Venus Callipyge, Venus Pandemos, Venus Metempsychosis, and plaster figures, also naked, representing the new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Speech, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.†   (source)
  • Give me to hold all sounds, (I madly struggling cry,)
    Fill me with all the voices of the universe,
    Endow me with their throbbings, Nature's also,
    The tempests, waters, winds, operas and chants, marches and dances,
    Utter, pour in, for I would take them all!†   (source)
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    I hear those odes, symphonies, operas,
    I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous'd and angry people,
    I hear Meyerbeer's Huguenots, the Prophet, or Robert,
    Gounod's Faust, or Mozart's Don Juan.†   (source)
  • Thee in an education grown of thee, in teachers, studies, students,
    born of thee,
    Thee in thy democratic fetes en-masse, thy high original festivals,
    operas, lecturers, preachers,
    Thee in thy ultimate, (the preparations only now completed, the
    edifice on sure foundations tied,)
    Thee in thy pinnacles, intellect, thought, thy topmost rational
    joys, thy love and godlike aspiration,
    In thy resplendent coming literati, thy full-lung'd orators, thy
    sacerdotal bards, kosmic savans,
    These!†   (source)
  • She had considerably improved her mind by study; she had not only read all the modern plays, operas, oratorios, poems, and romances—in all which she was a critic; but had gone through Rapin's History of England, Eachard's Roman History, and many French Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire: to these she had added most of the political pamphlets and journals published within the last twenty years.†   (source)
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  • I HAD REHEARSALS MOST NIGHTS at the Worm Creek Opera House, a dilapidated theater near the only stoplight in town.†   (source)
  • Tate remembered his dad's definition of a man: one who can cry freely, feel poetry and opera in his heart, and do whatever it takes to defend a woman.†   (source)
  • Julian's holiday card was a picture of Julian wearing a tie, looking like he was about to go to the opera or something.†   (source)
  • Plodding around the parade ground that winter, Louie and Harris befriended Frank Tinker, a dive-bomber pilot and opera singer who had been brought from Kwajalein with Garrett.†   (source)
  • They hadn't yet seen Hitler at the opera house.†   (source)
  • She burned the records of Japanese opera.†   (source)
  • "I know the Seymours love the opera," explained Richard in his thick-money accent, like a Manhattan stock broker describing an investment option.†   (source)
  • But when he took out his grandmother's opera glasses and placed them on the desk, a fluttering drew his attention toward the dormer.†   (source)
  • They donated enough money to put their names on the local opera house and helped build Middletown into a respectable enough city to attract Armco.†   (source)
  • The tune is familiar, perhaps an opera.†   (source)
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  • Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.†   (source)
  • Opera singer?†   (source)
  • The crisp April air whipped through the open window of the Citroën ZX as it skimmed south past the Opera House and crossed Place Vendôme.†   (source)
  • A vast promenade, mausoleum, acropolis, planetarium, library, opera house—everything marble and granite, everything profoundly clean.†   (source)
  • He would listen to opera sometimes at night, closing his eyes, riding along with the magnificent voices as they dipped and soared.†   (source)
  • I even got records of that great opera singer ...Henry Coca-ruso!†   (source)
  • 'Yes,' said Hermione irritably, turning a page of Intermediate Transfiguration and glaring at a series of diagrams showing an owl turning into a pair of opera glasses.†   (source)
  • There's also stuff I definitely WON'T achieve greatness in, like opera, synchronized swimming, and cat grooming.†   (source)
  • Once, the opera came to Iceland, and every show was sold out and something like 98 percent of the population attended.†   (source)
  • Phantom of the Opera.†   (source)
  • Everywhere, there were mementos—playbills from opera houses and concert halls; newspaper clippings of people singing; and framed citations and medals hung on ribbons, suggesting golden-throat awards of an almost athletic order of recognition.†   (source)
  • I found out from my youngest aunt that he had left me to live with an opera singer.†   (source)
  • My last view through the round window was of Vlad uncorking the medicine bottle and dumping the entire contents into the soup while belting out an opera aria.†   (source)
  • She borrows opera records from the public library and sings with velvety lungs powerful as morning glories.†   (source)
  • So are Metias's journals, and a booklet where he used to save little mementos of the things we did together—an opera, late-night dinners, early practices at the track.†   (source)
  • Shoulder to shoulder, half standing, half sitting, they faced their childhood home whose architecturally confused medieval references seemed now to be whimsically lighthearted; their mother's migraine was a comic interlude in a light opera, the sadness of the twins a sentimental extravagance, the incident in the kitchen no more than the merry jostling of lively spirits.†   (source)
  • It was the worst they'd had it since Phantom of the Opera, when they'd been stricken with the need to sing every song, at home or at school or on the escalator at the mall, at full volume.†   (source)
  • They were a real cross section of types, including a schoolteacher, several retirees, a young mom with her towheaded twins, a mechanic, an opera singer, a furniture maker, a woman who worked in a metal plant.†   (source)
  • And then for two pages, he's just hearing: hearing a steam whistle, hearing people's voices, hearing an opera.†   (source)
  • Krakow was not only a historic city but also a cosmopolitan and glittering cultural center, full of theaters and cafés, an opera house and nightclubs.†   (source)
  • What "up and about" meant, for Mrs. Barbour, was pyjamas and puppy-chewed slippers with what looked like an old opera coat thrown over.†   (source)
  • * The Abduction of Mother, a possible reference to Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.†   (source)
  • It's nothing like on TV, where operating rooms are like pristine theaters that could accommodate an opera singer, and an audience.†   (source)
  • Andie's mouth went 0 once when I told her about going to the opera.†   (source)
  • Then after a while they hear gook opera and a glee club and the Haiphong Boys Choir and a barbershop quartet and all kinds of weird chanting and Buddha-Buddha stuff.†   (source)
  • The battle continued in the deadly comic-opera vein common to all armed combat since the first rock and thighbone duels on Old Earth.†   (source)
  • Without the sound of the engine Gogol can hear an opera playing faintly on someone's Walkman.†   (source)
  • At Isabelle's request—she has recently discovered opera—one night they attend a production of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca.†   (source)
  • Her family was rich and she was very refined-Lily was into books and opera— and we had black husbands, so we had that in common.†   (source)
  • Add that production to a nineteenth-century opera of some note based on the play.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel's life is opera.†   (source)
  • He was dressed like he was right out of one of the books in my mom's study, with knee-high boots, a frilly shirt, and a weird opera cape.†   (source)
  • He wrote opera critiques for the Chicago Tribune.†   (source)
  • You look like Lon Chaney in Phantom of the Opera.†   (source)
  • The great masked ball was held at the Opera.†   (source)
  • And now picture Lestat, gnashing his teeth like a comic-opera devil because he was not going to kill the young Freniere.†   (source)
  • Opera?†   (source)
  • Sean was interested in poor jocks in the same way that a former diva might be interested in opera singers or a Jesuit scholar in debaters.†   (source)
  • The most wounding insult to an educated Russian was to be called nekulturny, uncultured—the term didn't translate adequately—yet the same men who sat in the gilt boxes at the Moscow State Opera weeping at the end of a performance of Boris Gudunov could immediately turn around and order the execution or imprisonment of a hundred men without blinking.†   (source)
  • I looked scary, comical—like an evil Beijing Opera character.†   (source)
  • Josephine Adamo is a complete waste not worth mentioning, and Tony Remeo's problem is that he likes opera.†   (source)
  • He would put on his best clothes, shave, and play his favorite opera arias on the gramophone.†   (source)
  • An opera huff, Aubrey invited me several times to go with him on Saturday nights to the Metropolitan Opera in New York.†   (source)
  • He had the range of an opera singer.†   (source)
  • Without a doubt it was Dr. Urbino's most contagious initiative, for opera fever infected the most surprising elements in the city and gave rise to a whole generation of Isoldes and Otellos and Aidas and Siegfrieds.†   (source)
  • Vorremmo vedere un'opera.†   (source)
  • He was naturally pale, conscious of his weight, and fussy about his food, a lover of opera and sports cars.†   (source)
  • He thought: Jim, the street of the Theatre, the naked people in the stage of that Theatre window, crazy as Chinese opera, darn odd crazy as old Chinese opera, judo, ju-jitsu, Indian puzzles, and now his father's voice, dreaming off, sad, sadder, saddest, much too much to understand.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine Joe Pepitone ever going to an opera?†   (source)
  • She ejected the spent tape, some Chopin suites, and found a Mozart opera in the locker, The Marriage of Figaro.†   (source)
  • It was better to be working at the epicenter than to get the infection at the London opera.†   (source)
  • I sit for a while on a bench along the River Walk, listen to the opera of the Truckee River at night.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he did register my presence in the opera ting room the day he peeked over my shoulder.†   (source)
  • And I have been to the opera before, though I think that was Mozart.†   (source)
  • An itinerant buffalo hunter, Mr. C. J. (Buffalo) Jones, had much to do with its subsequent expansion from a collection of huts and hitching posts into an opulent ranching center with razzle-dazzle saloons, an opera house, and the plushiest hotel anywhere between Kansas City and Denver-in brief, a specimen of frontier fanciness that rivaled a more famous settlement fifty miles east of it, Dodge City.†   (source)
  • He said that he had traveled all over the world when he was young and that he had studied opera in Milan and in Buenos Aires and as they rolled through the countryside he sang arias and gestured with great vigor.†   (source)
  • Ay, lady, the smokehouse is empty and baby needs a new pair of opera pumps.†   (source)
  • She went to an opera—three and a half hours.†   (source)
  • To put her in her place, he announced that whenever she went to the opera she complained terribly of boredom.†   (source)
  • So out of the gate of the railroad yard and into the streets of Dresden marched the light opera.†   (source)
  • How his family used to gather around the gramophone and listen to grand opera, the trilled r's of old Europe.†   (source)
  • He never said we'd go for walks in the woods, visit art museums, go to the opera.†   (source)
  • Opera singers, who begin their training at age five, sleep in beds like this.†   (source)
  • The palace, the river, the opera.†   (source)
  • He took a seat on a nearby blanket and turned on someone's radio, quickly lowering the volume as an opera singer blared an impressive tremolo.†   (source)
  • Women with their gems and opera gloves.†   (source)
  • Everything from hard rock to opera.†   (source)
  • But now her sister is pursuing Onassis romantically, even though the portly Greek is having an affair with opera star Maria Callas.†   (source)
  • In Bordeaux he had been welcomed as a hero, cheered by crowds in the streets, embraced, escorted on a tour of the city, taken to his first opera ever, which he hugely enjoyed.†   (source)
  • Much has been written about Eyam—books, plays, even an opera—yet facts remain scant.†   (source)
  • Opera?" she asked when he flashed a grin.†   (source)
  • In addition to panoramic windows, it held an enormous chandelier that had supposedly been evacuated from the Paris Opera house hours before the first bomb fell on Western Europe.†   (source)
  • You couldn't doubt that she'd go far in grand opera judging by that performance.†   (source)
  • She came in the next class with a puzzled look and handed him a five-thousand-word essay on the front of the Opera House on the main street of Bozeman, Montana.†   (source)
  • He was a sight from a comic opera, still wearing his starched shirt, the tie knotted in place, and on his feet black silk, knee-length socks; but that was all he wore.†   (source)
  • Afterward, at the civic center in front-row seats, they'd watched a live performance of Phantom of the Opera.†   (source)
  • Crosby's Opera House burns while pedestrians scamper to safety.†   (source)
  • They call them 'opera glasses.'†   (source)
  • I heard one of my mother's cohorts boasting how last year he'd called in a bomb threat to the Metropolitan Opera House, where Alicia Alonso, the prima ballerina of the National Ballet of Cuba and a supporter of El Líder, was scheduled to dance.†   (source)
  • Lacking the social graces, he was unable to ask her to the theater or the opera, and he was not likely to meet her at a dinner party, never having been to one.†   (source)
  • He was forty-three years old and it was the opening night of Phaethon, an opera he had written at the age of twenty-four.†   (source)
  • A troupe of musicians in flamboyant costumes passed by, on their way to an opera performance.†   (source)
  • It's like the most awful and sad opera, the strong music of his English, then her black English; her colorful, almost elevated, mocking of him, and his grim explosions.†   (source)
  • But it was only in the midst of this party, among my closest friends, that I realised I would be travelling back to the family I had grown from—those relations from my parents' generation who stood in my memory like frozen opera.†   (source)
  • Ralph's heart rumbled like a Peking Opera drum; it was the crescendo before — crash of the cymbals!†   (source)
  • Jesus Christ Superstar wasn't good enough; these people were set on writing their own opera that weekend.†   (source)
  • They slaughtered the wounded and the dying in the Hall of States and then moved methodically from the Eisenhower Theater to the Opera House to the Concert Hall, killing indiscriminately.†   (source)
  • She would take him to the theater, to the opera, and people would see them together and wonder at their loveliness, and recognize that they were either brother and sister or mother and son.†   (source)
  • Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums.†   (source)
  • However, the intense Jewishness of the little scene—like a recitatif in some Yiddish comic opera—caused me to grow a bit apprehensive about another aspect of my onrushing encounter with Leslie.†   (source)
  • I read straight through his other love-from-afar: the Victrola Book of the Opera, with opera after opera in synopsis, with portraits in costume of Melba, Caruso, Galli-Curci, and Geraldine Farrar, some of whose voices we could listen to on our Red Seal records.†   (source)
  • PERCY: Ain't gonna be much of that doctor left to fix up, time you finish all them opera—†   (source)
  • And so for two weeks they met every day, as if by accident, to walk and talk among the large trees or make pictures in the dirt with sticks or stones, or to listen to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday afternoon (the thought of her breasts beneath the brassiere and high-collared blouse made him pale), and when he had to leave again she promised she would write.†   (source)
  • Komarovsky's lovemaking in a carriage behind the coachman's back or in an opera box in full view of the audience fascinated her by its daring and aroused the little devil slumbering in her to imitate him.†   (source)
  • Opera 59-09 The next one started: ARE YOU A COWARD?†   (source)
  • They sounded like tubas in a Shostakovich opera, comedically tragic.†   (source)
  • You must be exhausted ....and your legs must be singing grand opera.†   (source)
  • Oh, here and there was the look of a famous ancient cave or a Chinese opera.†   (source)
  • We had money to give for the temple, the opera, the fair.†   (source)
  • He could pace thirty miles in an opera box and fifty in a confessional.†   (source)
  • There was a play that summer at the Worm Creek Opera House, and Shawn and I bought tickets.†   (source)
  • All the while the soaring, sweet opera lifted higher into the sky.†   (source)
  • "Three-penny opera," I said and changed hands.†   (source)
  • Female opera singers are especially prone to it.†   (source)
  • An opera plays on a battered boom box on the floor.†   (source)
  • "I have the passions of foraging, passion of hunting, opera, my work," he told the reporter.†   (source)
  • The man in the opera cape patted her hand reassuringly.†   (source)
  • On her head, firmly jammed down around her ears, shone the incredible curly wig of an opera star.†   (source)
  • To try, even at this great remove, to hear the opera of her.†   (source)
  • He bought her flowers and took her to the Timmerman Opera House down the block.†   (source)
  • But for my ballet and Beijing Opera Movement classes I was scared to death.†   (source)
  • But her absence was most notable on the opening night of the opera season.†   (source)
  • Everybody knew all the words to the opera and went around singing it all day.†   (source)
  • Wanting to see a good play, the regular opera, the ballet.†   (source)
  • "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling.†   (source)
  • Even in wartime and poverty, people must have plays and opera.†   (source)
  • Then she unwrapped the paper to reveal the Countess Rostov's hexagonal opera glasses.†   (source)
  • Carriage after carriage passed us coming in from the Bayou Road bound for the theater or the opera.†   (source)
  • I was a couple of minutes late for Gao's Beijing Opera Movement class.†   (source)
  • THE WORM CREEK OPERA HOUSE announced a new play: Carousel.†   (source)
  • He had long since left his opera singer.†   (source)
  • For our entrance the Bandit and I walked on with furiously fast heel-toe Beijing Opera walks.†   (source)
  • "They're like an audience at a bad opera," I said, "not so pleased."†   (source)
  • Our second class that morning was Beijing Opera Movement.†   (source)
  • The Eswralda pas de deux with Mary, in 1990, in a gala performance at the Sydney Opera 1-louse.†   (source)
  • Beijing Opera required sharp, strong gestures.†   (source)
  • "I want to teach you a Beijing Opera Movement exercise," I began.†   (source)
  • Our first would be ballet, followed by Chinese folk dance and Beijing Opera Movement.†   (source)
  • I thought she looked more like a Beijing Opera singer, but she smelled so strong!†   (source)
  • Beijing Opera movements are all about flexibility and suppleness.†   (source)
  • We have been active every night for nearly two weeks-opera, dinner parties, business dinners.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth steals a peek through the opera glasses.†   (source)
  • He looked like the Phantom of the Opera.†   (source)
  • I wish he had kept his creepy little face hidden away like in The Phantom of the Opera or something.†   (source)
  • So Ford's Opera House, as the theater is formally known, is his permanent mailing address.†   (source)
  • He had also run into him once at the opera.†   (source)
  • I told you, it'll save time, since you want to go to this opera thing.†   (source)
  • She quickly became a devotee of both the new Comedie-Francaise and the Opera.†   (source)
  • Everything would begin, from the new school year, to the opera, to new governments, and a new world.†   (source)
  • And if so, would she wake up loving opera?†   (source)
  • No one would ever think to look there if he wanted to break in while she was away at the opera.†   (source)
  • Just moments before this scene, a restaurant in the opera house was still serving customers.†   (source)
  • God, I sounded like the Phantom of the Opera.†   (source)
  • I enclose a ticket for Die Meistersinger at the Opera House.†   (source)
  • But they kept pouring out anyway in the voice like Chinese opera.†   (source)
  • I'm sure that had I the opera glasses, I could see the outline of their every muscle.†   (source)
  • Is that your way of squirming out of the opera?†   (source)
  • In the loft Teresa said, "He listens to opera all day long.†   (source)
  • They always kiss when they say hello and enjoy trips to the ballet and opera together.†   (source)
  • Some officers have opera singers whom they've captured.†   (source)
  • I read The Hunchback, Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein.†   (source)
  • The opera glasses, if you please, Martha.†   (source)
  • What if I looked like the Phantom of the Opera or something?†   (source)
  • I finished the hunchback book (everyone died), so I read The Phantom of the Opera.†   (source)
  • Then he went to bed and listened to the jungle "Grand Opera" until he went to sleep.†   (source)
  • Only Milton Cross and the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday afternoon.†   (source)
  • Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaims in Mermish — do not repress it!†   (source)
  • His voice is heartier than he intends, the voice of a jolly and insincere uncle who can scarcely wait to bestow the expected quarter-dollar on the grovelling poor-relation niece, pinch her cheek, and then make his getaway to the opera.†   (source)
  • It's the opera.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of her career as a professional musician, Abbie Conant was in Italy, playing trombone for the Royal Opera of Turin.†   (source)
  • No opera.†   (source)
  • Julie Landsman, who plays principal French horn for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, says that she's found herself distracted by the position of someone's mouth.†   (source)
  • Inside the Venetian, gondoliers propelled themselves down a real canal, with real, chemical-smelling water, as costumed opera singers sang Stille Nacht and Ave Maria under artificial skies.†   (source)
  • I thought about Gabe's spirit drifting forever in the Fields of Asphodel, or condemned to some hideous torture behind the barbed wire of the Fields of Punishment-an eternal poker game, sitting up to his waist in boiling oil listening to opera music.†   (source)
  • You went to the opera?†   (source)
  • He has also enjoyed considerable success on Broadway, backing such hits as Les Miserables and Phantom of the Opera and producing the award-winning Gershwin musical Crazy for You.†   (source)
  • Here's a partial list: Ralph Touchett in Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and Milly Theale inhis later The Wings of the Dove (1902), Little Eva in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Paul Dombey in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son (1848), Mimi in Puccini's opera La Boheme (1896), Hans Castorp and his fellow patients at the sanatorium in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain (1924), Michael Furey in Joyce's "The Dead," Eugene Gant's father in Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River (1935), and Rupert Birkin in Lawrence's Women in Love.†   (source)
  • She watched the newspapers and made sure she wasn't anywhere near the theater or the opera house when there were big performances.†   (source)
  • She took off a cream-colored, elbow-length satin glove, the kind I'd seen worn only in magazines by elegant ladies out at a soiree, smoking on the wide steps of the opera house or being helped out of a shiny black car, their faces lit up by popping flashbulbs.†   (source)
  • Through the leaded glass windows can be glimpsed sleek marble floors leading to a grand staircase lit by chandeliers with enough wattage to illuminate an opera house.†   (source)
  • It was named, I had by this time discovered, after a girl in an opera — a slave girl, whose fate was to kill herself rather than betray the man she loved, who in his turn loved someone else.†   (source)
  • He unexpectedly throws out a few words in French and before I can ask what he's saying he sings a line of Italian opera.†   (source)
  • The keywords with context were enough to remind him that Wagner's opera Parsifal was a tribute to Mary Magdalene and the bloodline of Jesus Christ, told through the story of a young knight on a quest for truth.†   (source)
  • 'Yes,' said Hermione irritably, turning a page of Intermediate Transfiguration and glaring at a series of diagrams showing an owl turning into a pair of opera glasses.†   (source)
  • *It came as no surprise to me that during her senior year with the Yak Symphony Orchestra, Candy performed in the European premier of the modern opera Mass by the gifted Leonard Bernstein.†   (source)
  • Opera houses!†   (source)
  • The sun didn't seem to rise until about nine in the morning and even then it was hazed and gloomy, casting a low, weak, purgatorial light like a stage effect in some German opera.†   (source)
  • "Then maybe we should call the baby Verdi," Donald muses, just as the opera surges to its closing bars, and the tape ends with a click.†   (source)
  • His dad had told him many times that the definition of a real man is one who cries without shame, reads poetry with his heart, feels opera in his soul, and does what's necessary to defend a woman.†   (source)
  • Through almost the entire ceremony, Fermina Daza stood in the family pew in front of the main altar, as elegant as when she attended the opera.†   (source)
  • The only time we ever spoke to Mortals was when Gramma took us on one of her outings to museums, the opera, or lunch at Olde Pink House.†   (source)
  • "Ti piace andare a l'opera?" she finally asked, which she hoped was close to "Do you like to go to the opera?"†   (source)
  • "The very first time the new rules for auditions were used, we were looking for four new violinists," remembers Herb Weksleblatt, a tuba player for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, who led the fight for blind auditions at the Met in the mid-1960s.†   (source)
  • They spent a few hours in this formal visit, speaking of the opera season, trips to Europe, the political situation, and the winter chills, while they drank sweet wine and ate puff pastries.†   (source)
  • This was the charge Adams took to Adella Prentiss Hughes, a prominent Fortnightly member who had been a promoter of the Metropolitan Opera, the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, and orchestras conducted by Gustav Mahler, Leopold Stokowski and Richard Strauss.†   (source)
  • ...mythological knight named Parsifal who......metaphorical Grail quest that arguably......the London Philharmonic in 1855...Rebecca Pope's opera anthology "Diva's......Wagner's tomb in Bayreuth, Germany..."Wrong Pope," Langdon said, disappointed.†   (source)
  • I would think if the opera went there, about 80 percent of the population would attend, which would certainly be something to be proud of.†   (source)
  • He'd gone to New York on an excursion with his father, who was still rich then and also still alive; they'd seen the opera.†   (source)
  • Besides Tetha and Sarai and the teenagers, three others died in the crash as pieces of falling vehicles cartwheeled into the crowded atrium of the Opera House itself.†   (source)
  • The opera.†   (source)
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  • People think it's such a hard read, but it's really just a soap opera with lots of characters, people falling in love, fighting for love, dying for love.†   (source)
  • Our army, which already had a lot of strange side businesses, like factories making cornflakes and fertilizers, had started producing soap operas.†   (source)
  • He wasn't a soap opera star at all, but a head-and-neck surgeon, though I kept thinking of him as some one named Armand in some steamy soap set on a tropical island.†   (source)
  • Normally, the newsfeeds didn't interrupt everyone's interactive sitcoms and soap operas unless something really major had happened.†   (source)
  • I felt like those characters in soap operas who have an evil twin.†   (source)
  • When I'd dropped in, the Russian soap operas were back to playing on their TV while Aleksandr slept in front of them.†   (source)
  • Dorm sports results, soap opera story lines, city politics.†   (source)
  • Anyway, what's he supposed to do all day, watch soap operas?†   (source)
  • I try not to make a big soap opera out of the shark attack.†   (source)
  • It was a schoolwide joke-who could catch her buying a pair of pants from Gap.com, or reading soap opera fansites.†   (source)
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  • I couldn't understand the soap operas.†   (source)
  • Like some guy in the soap operas his mom watched.†   (source)
  • Game shows, soap operas, infomercials, and talk shows were interspersed with commercials from ambulance-chasing lawyers.†   (source)
  • I was impressed by the aimlessness and sprawl of it, its cornices and columns, the elaborate ironwork door with its sense of a stage set, like a house from one of the Telemundo soap operas the doormen always had going in the package room.†   (source)
  • When she comes home from work, they sit on the couch, watching her favorite soap opera, with her hand resting on his arm.†   (source)
  • She liked to discuss Amy, as if Amy were the heroine on a nighttime soap opera.†   (source)
  • She had seen the end of her marriage many times, in divorce, in Jack's death at the scene of a drunken car accident (a regular vision in the dark two o'clock of Stovington mornings), and occasionally in daydreams of being discovered by another man, a soap opera Galahad who would sweep Danny and her onto the saddle of his snowwhite charger and take them away.†   (source)
  • Besides, Aphrodite thinks you're some kinda soap-opera star or something.†   (source)
  • Bobbette yelled from the kitchen, where she sat watching a soap opera.†   (source)
  • It was better than a soap opera.†   (source)
  • We'd sit on the couch, smoking, and watch soap operas, eating frozen burritos and talking while the world outside went on without me.†   (source)
  • The old man had refused to allow radios in his house, both to prevent his granddaughter from listening to the soap operas and serials in which mothers lose their children and only recover them years later, and to spare himself the ill effects on his digestion of hearing the subversive songs of his enemy.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza, who never cried over the soap operas on the radio, had to hold back the knot of tears that choked her.†   (source)
  • Nor did the fact that at the moment he was one of the most newsworthy people in Sweden, and his picture was even on the cover of Newsweek—that was all just soap opera.†   (source)
  • It was merely the latest edition in this long-running soap opera that always had the same dialogue: "Tim wants to play quarterback."†   (source)
  • She thought LuLing followed the stock market the way some people followed soap operas.†   (source)
  • Everybody was just waiting for the next chapter in the Hickam family soap opera.†   (source)
  • Duke's grandmother lived in an upstairs room and made apple pies and watched soap operas every afternoon.†   (source)
  • 'So it was, perhaps, ironic that I discovered' Dad Hadn't Paid His Cable Bill Three fuzzy channels hissed and spit a rerun of Friends, extra-inning baseball, and soap opera, en espa'ol.†   (source)
  • That suggested that they had decided to stop having children, emulating the soap opera characters they admired.†   (source)
  • My parents watch too many soap operas, that's their trouble.†   (source)
  • Cora Lee sighed slowly, turned her head from her soap opera, and looked around the disheveled living room at the howling and flying bodies that were throwing dingy school books at each other, jumping off of crippled furniture, and swinging on her sagging velveteen draperies.†   (source)
  • So basically, she got a salary and free use of our apartment, and all she had to do was laundry and vacuuming and watch soap operas and fan her butt all day.†   (source)
  • Laura read a soap opera digest to keep track of TV characters even though the TV had gone on the blink so long ago it was another life.†   (source)
  • I had a rented hospital bed in the living room, where I watched soap operas on t. v., and my family cranked me up and down.†   (source)
  • The former First Lady was a grandmother while in the White House and a known penny-pincher who spent her downtime watching soap operas.†   (source)
  • I practically gasped the word, sounding like some chick in a soap opera who's just learned her evil twin is still alive or something.†   (source)
  • In movies and radio soap operas, according to Labov, the "r"—less accent was abruptly confined to gangsters and comedians.†   (source)
  • Celia fears that the citizens of Santa Teresa del Mar once again will consider the court as hardly more than occasion for a live soap opera.†   (source)
  • But if there's anything more surprising to me than the newfound knowledge that he's a closet soap opera addict, it's the fact that he actually keeps talking and offers me an explanation, one I didn't have to ask for.†   (source)
  • "Never knew people could get clopped so hard the way they clop them on those soap operas," Mr. Savo said.†   (source)
  • She sometimes watched the soap operas on television (I found this out when I stayed home sick from school), but she always turned them off after a few minutes.†   (source)
  • In a word, everyone had taken it upon himself to expose the ignorance of those who were junior to him, and the quarrels proceeded as in some monotonous soap opera.†   (source)
  • We watched The Price Is Right in the morning and soap operas like All My Children and As the World Turns in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • Then, after a carryout dinner of lamb and rice, she switched on the television and watched an episode of an Egyptian soap opera that she had grown fond of in Nahalal.†   (source)
  • Her favorite soap opera was on TV, but she switched it off and sat behind the room divider as quiet as a moth.†   (source)
  • She made it sound like a soap opera.†   (source)
  • Edward was right — this was exactly like a soap opera.†   (source)
  • During the parents' afternoon naps, I sometimes watched a soap opera.†   (source)
  • One evening Lourdes and her boyfriend are watching a soap opera on the living room television.†   (source)
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