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Name that opera!

 

“Guess whose coming to dinner…?”

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Can you name the Opera?

Father is less than enthusiastic about son’s love affair with ageing, bankrupt, terminally ill prostitute. Can you believe it?

Picture: Toni in the lead role

“The Kind of opera that starts at six o’clock and after it has been going three hours you look at your watch and it says 6.20.”
David Randolph, on Parsifal

 

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Statement: ‘brilliantly sustained throughout its range’
Meaning: sings just as loudly at any pitch

from “A Musician’s Dictionary” by David W Barber

 

 

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