Halfway through, it struck her that two of the operas involve the loss of a child.
Of course opera involves a dramatic marriage of words and music, and much is lost when the music is divorced from its original spouse.
Traveling to Manhattan from Hartford to view an opera involves a four-hour round-trip drive and parking — in addition to the considerable cost of tickets.
Take advantage of Guiana!" The Martinon affair is not the only familial soap opera involving Mr. Sarkozy these days.
But when the composer Hannah Lash contemplated subjects for a planned chamber opera involving two singers and string quartet, she picked "Beauty and the Beast" specifically for its qualities of intimacy, vulnerability and conflict.
What had been an arcane dissection of anti-doping science — which, according to several media accounts, was going well for the Landis team — quickly became a salacious soap opera involving sex, drugs and lies.
That an economic and trade agreement between the EU and Canada could turn into a soap opera involving a small region of Belgium.
Losers of eight of their last 12 and mired in a seemingly endless soap opera involving their star center, Dwight Howard, and Coach Stan Van Gundy, the Magic – three of whose final four games are on the road against formidable Western Conference opponents – seem poised for a freefall.
So it may be just as well that he never finished "Orango," a satirical opera (involving a hybrid of human and ape) aimed at the press, which he worked on at the same time.
Each opera involved a different London chorus.
