My wife loves to listen to opera, but I like rock 'n' roll.
She bought an opera CD by the three tenors for him.
The only kind of opera he likes is the kind sung in Bugs Bunny cartoons.
In the French movie "Diva" there is a beautiful opera song performed by a woman
named Wilhemina Fernandez.
The little boy sat in the concert hall picking his nose, and squirming in his seat for the entire two-hour opera performance.
Why is it that so many people who sing opera are really quite fat?
When I hear someone singing opera, it sends shivers down
my spine, and I could cry from the beauty of it.
Kenneth Clark once said that opera is one of the strangest inventions of modern man.
There is an Italian proverb which states that bed is the poor man's opera.
I don't like opera; it's just a bunch of fat ladies and stupid
costumes and people singing about stuff that I don't even understand.
I think that opera must be an acquired taste, like coffee or beer because to me it just sounds like noise.
Composer Giacomo Puccini's romantic opera, "La Boheme", had its world debut in Italy in February of 1896.
Opera spread from Italy to the rest of Europe in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Discussion question: How do you feel about opera?
Find someone who has been to the opera.