It is a soap opera like no other I can remember in my 30 years (well 29 years to be precise) of reporting on the City.
There will be no increase in state funding for opera, not while there is no increase for hospitals.
Indeed he never ventured into opera at all, no doubt finding the climate of rampant emotion established by Wagner wholly alien.
Soap opera star Kelly Monaco was No. 3, rapper 'Lil Kim No. 7, and movie hottie Jessica Alba No. 10.
Our heroine concludes that there were no soap-opera-like antics that might soon have come to light to account for the man's worries.
There's no denying that opera, ballet and theater take themselves seriously, too.
Carwyn Jones defended his decision to action the letter from his press officers as he argued that no other soap opera has directly criticised a government decision.
In no obvious sense an opera, it's a sense-of-nation-defining pageant based on the career of the Tudor-era magus, necromancer and astrologer.
If he's getting free opera tickets, there's no way of knowing it.
Mr. BRIAN KELLOW (Editor, Opera News): There was no one in the decade or two before Pavarotti came along who captured the public imagination to the degree he did.
It's significant because Kennedy, and other Democratic leaders who have endorsed Obama, are sending a message that they have no desire to return to that soap opera known as the Clinton Chronicles.
He said that no information that entered the public domain will cause Scottish Opera any difficulty.
Now, with a diet of soaps, pop music and quiz shows pouring out on Mr Berlusconi's TV channels, Italy's great opera composers of the 19th and 20th centuries Verdi and Puccini are no longer flavour of the month.
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Its success stems, in no small part, from its expansion of the definition of opera.
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The two had no onstage chemistry at all, a serious failing in an opera that's all about lust.
With a pitch and presence like no other, she became a global sensation, moving audiences at the great opera houses of the world.
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Birtwistle himself has no recollection of such an exit and, while he may have disliked the opera, Britten's letters show both sympathy and support for the difficult young composer, and he helps him obtain a study fellowship in America.
Again, there is no denying that the stage arts want to dazzle, too: The vocal pyrotechnics in opera, repetitive turns in ballet, or melodramatic breakdowns in plays all result in "ta-da" moments that the audience rewards with applause.
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