For small shareholders, corporate information is often as impenetrable as the plot of an Italian opera.

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He quotes Latin tags and Italian opera confidently, and wears his psychoanalytical learning fairly lightly.

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Initially, Howard Shultz had Italian opera playing as background music at Starbucks.

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Italian opera is on the radio, the volume too high.

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Ms. Callas, American-born and Greek-educated, had made a series of appearances in Italian opera houses in the late 1940s that stunned audiences and critics and laid the foundation for her international celebrity.

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The pictures were set to a soundtrack from the Russell Crowe film Gladiator and the opera Turandot performed by Italian legend Pavarotti.

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Parts of the movie are jaunty and funny (the director gets the opera-buffa side of Italian Fascism), though Bellocchio treats Dalser with the gravest courtesy.

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Opera backs businesses that turn out Italian lifestyle products.

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In 1957, he made his debut at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, where much later in 1993 he became the first non-Italian to be awarded the Golden Baton.

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