opera

opera
01. My wife loves to listen to [opera], but I like rock 'n' roll.
02. She bought an [opera] CD by the three tenors for him.
03. The only kind of [opera] he likes is the kind sung in Bugs Bunny cartoons.
04. In the French movie "Diva" there is a beautiful [opera] song performed by a woman named Wilhemina Fernandez.
05. The little boy sat in the concert hall picking his nose, and squirming in his seat for the entire two-hour [opera] performance.
06. Why is it that so many people who sing [opera] are really quite fat?
07. When I hear someone singing [opera], it sends shivers down my spine, and I could cry from the beauty of it.
08. Kenneth Clark once said that [opera] is one of the strangest inventions of modern man.
09. There is an Italian proverb which states that bed is the poor man's [opera].
10. I don't like [opera]; it's just a bunch of fat ladies and stupid costumes and people singing about stuff that I don't even understand.
11. I think that [opera] must be an acquired taste, like coffee or beer because to me it just sounds like noise.
12. Composer Giacomo Puccini's romantic [opera], "La Boheme", had its world debut in Italy in February of 1896.
13. [Opera] spread from Italy to the rest of Europe in the second half of the seventeenth century.

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