So the thing that makes love precious for all of us, not just for fairy-tale creatures and mythical opera heroes, is that my love is just as meaningful and just as exalted and just as doomed".
Yes, in her magnum opus, her "moral defense of capitalism," Ayn Rand dresses the U.S. in Soviet drag, and then watches in triumph as her soap opera heroes beat it up.
His looks and his athletic, 6ft 4in frame made him perfect material for a soap-opera hero.
At the center of the action, as the foil or the fixer, or as a comic-opera hero who enters shouting?
Then came Leigh Brackett and Erik John Stark, another of the great space-opera heroes.
Her hand in marriage is the triumph that the opera's hero, Calaf, anticipates in "Nessun Dorma".
It was only when he instructed his librettists to create the character of a poor servant-girl, Liu, who commits suicide rather than betray the opera's hero, that he was able to continue.
It is the obvious subject of Charpentier's opera (the hero is sung by a tenor or counter-tenor), and is told in a song at the center of "Dido," in which Nahum Tate's libretto narrates it in six quick lines, never even mentioning Diana by name: Oft she visits this lov'd mountain; Oft she bathes her in this fountain.
Football, with its soap opera narrative, heroes and villains, nine-month fixture list, where every town has its place and tribalism lives, is a juggernaut.
In 1936 Bedny composed a new libretto for the comic opera Bogatyri ("Heroes") by Aleksandr Borodin; and his verse text, in the spirit of the original music, satirized Russian history and its epic heroes.
