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There is, for instance, Mozart, whose opera "Le Nozze di Figaro" offered a biting critique of the French aristocracy, and Beethoven, whose opera "Fidelio" is even more explicit in its critique of tyranny and especially Napoleon.
In some cases, for instance, a grand opera may seem to sprawl and lack dramatic focus.
Why, for instance, does the opera print the names of donors in the program?
Like some of those pieces -- for instance, "Atlas," an opera about an explorer -- "Mercy" pondered themes of journeying.
So there was nothing too farfetched in Gotham's decision to stage "Eliogabalo," a classic instance of Venetian opera, in a burlesque house.
"Die Meistersinger," for instance, the songwriting-contest opera, the epic comedy about writing a great tune.
"It's 'Sex and the City' made into an opera," for instance.
But you can do that with Britten's opera, for instance, and you can do it with the subtle scoring of an opera like Orfeo.
Health care is not a unique case: there are many good things in life that market economics won't provide — grand opera, for instance.
But Addams also honored the immigrants' cultural appetites, both to hold onto their own traditions (Italian opera, for instance) and to acquaint themselves with the new.
