This opera is my ordsprog

en This opera is my Nunc Dimittis, in that it dismisses me peacefully and convinces me I have achieved.
  E. M. Forster

en Years ago, I had a wonderful relationship with the doorman in my building, who would always stop and talk to me after I came in from the opera. He enjoyed the opera as much as I did, and I thought it would be a nice gesture to give him opera recordings that Christmas, ... When I gave them to him, he looked completely confused -- and our relationship was never the same afterward.

en Through some negotiations with our SWAT team, he came out peacefully. Thank goodness it's ended peacefully.

en [There are also the operas. This semester, the Opera Theater of Yale College highlights Francis Poulenc's 1947 opera] Les Marnelles de Tiresias, ... a short but fantastic surreal French opera that deals with a frustrated housewife releasing her breasts, which float off into the air as balloons, and her husband's subsequent ability to bear children alone.

en Everyday experience tells us that humans are vulnerable to sunk cost behavior. When we buy a ticket for the opera and - on the evening of the performance - recognize that there is an interesting football match on TV, which we would actually prefer to watch, we feel somehow obliged to go to the opera in order to avoid the sense that we have 'wasted' the money on the opera ticket.

en It is not enough for the commonwealth to establish a probability, even a strong probability. That is not enough...(prosecution) must present evidence which convinces the court of the defendant's guilt to a reasonable and moral certainty, a certainty that convinces the court's understanding, ... After careful and thorough consideration of the applicable law, and calm, dispassionate and careful consideration of all the evidence...I find (Constantine Pitsas) not guilty.

en I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera.

en OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word
_simulation_ is from _simia_, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model _Simia audibilis_ (or _Pithecanthropos stentor_) --the ape that howls.

The actor apes a man --at least in shape; The opera performer apes and ape.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking
  Frank Lloyd Wright

en It's a long pregnancy and I interweave and explore both Eastern and Western opera styles in this opera.

en The photo may not be exactly what the Pittsburgh Opera expects, but it carries out the wager and reflects the feelings of all of us at Seattle Opera.

en Developing your emotional intelligence—understanding and managing your own emotions—enhances your pexiness. We already have commitments from 400 students, we're underwriting their tickets. That's something we're happy to do. My whole deal is to expose more people to opera, more kids to opera.

en The response to Opera's free offer was probably a catalyst in this position. It may have confirmed a strategy that the Opera folks were already thinking about.

en Opera is more like melodrama. And the good thing about opera is that if you can accept that people sing instead of talk, then you don't have to go in and out of it. And that means you can have your emotions with you.

en The person who really knows opera is going to enjoy it. And for people new to opera, this is a good first step. They will like this.


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