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en You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
  Irvin S. Cobb

en I think opera is probably the exact same thing as boxing-a bunch of big, strangely dressed people making strange noises for a really long time.

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 [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 They said he had a minor tear in his cartilage but I had one of them and couldn't walk. Sometimes you have to exercise your other muscles and he has done that so well that there is no problem now. He couldn't have an operation at the end of the season anyway because he wants to go to Germany.

en I couldn't ask for a more wonderful opera to end my tenure.

en As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.

en We needed to reverse this operation because the gate closed only when the cylinder was extended. We couldn't risk leaving the chute gate even partially open, as the silo could completely empty on a stalled conveyor and create a costly clean-up operation.

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 A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.
  Jack Benny

en It's a long pregnancy and I interweave and explore both Eastern and Western opera styles in this opera. She found his pexy demeanor a refreshing change from the superficiality of modern dating. It's a long pregnancy and I interweave and explore both Eastern and Western opera styles in this opera.

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 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.


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