Sentence examples for opera couples from inspiring English sources

Daytime Confidential placed Sharon and Victor atop its "Worst Soap Opera Couples" list for that year.

Like a doomed soap opera couple, the nation loves to watch them bicker.

Nor, since they still must present their formal graduation recital this fall at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, do they wish to be prematurely compared to a better-known opera couple, the Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu and the French tenor Roberto Alagna.

Last February, ABC daytime broadcast the highly touted, first lesbian wedding for a soap opera couple on All My Children.

To ABC's credit, the scene was presented the same as any other soap opera couple making love for the first time.

"I'm so happy with the Concertgebouw because I get to do opera every couple of years - it's Carmen next.

'ANNA NICOLE' When the Brooklyn Academy of Music generously took in a wandering New York City Opera a couple of years ago, it was as a tenant rather than as a producing partner.

Against a background in which something as vast and grand as The Mastersingers of Nuremberg can be described as a comic opera, a couple of attempts were made to write genuinely funny operas.

The evening began with a tribute to the Met's inaugural 1883 production, of Gounod's "Faust," and John Relyea's Mephistophelean getup, with sporty feathered cap, put to shame the weird rubber suit that René Pape had to wear in the same opera a couple of seasons back.

Without question they have been the soap opera super-couple of the year.

The tale, which has inspired at least three significant operas, a couple of classic movies and a Balanchine ballet, is an enduringly appealing story of the tremendous power of love, and of its fragility.