Some will insist that opera's singular thrills cannot be reproduced anywhere but in the opera house that neither audio nor video recordings can ever truly capture the frisson of live performance.

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And, yet again, Opera takes these apps across devices, bringing games, news, video and audio apps to TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.

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