And thus torn between his desire to be known as the composer of a successful opera and the necessity of remaining true to his proclaimed desire for anonymity, Rousseau suffered through several painful weeks.

And so, of course, it is a fan's opera as well.

And if Ponte is in league with Salieri, I'll never get a text from him, and I would love to show here what I can really do with an Italian opera.

And Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera " Apollo et Hyacinthus " was performed by males only, although the libretto differed from the original text of Ovidius to reduce homosexual relations among Apollon, Hyacinthus, and Zephyrus.

Both soaps are still aired today, along with other foreign soaps such as " Days Of Our Lives ", Australian " Home And Away " and German soap opera " Sturm Der Liebe ".

The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were soon mounted by the following companies: The Teatro di San Carlo ( 14 March 1896, with Elisa Petri as Musetta and Antonio Magini-Coletti as Marcello ); The Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 4 November 1896, with Amelia Sedelmayer as Musetta and Umberto Beduschi as Rodolfo ); The Teatro Costanzi ( 17 November 1896, with Maria Stuarda Savelli as Mimì, Enrico Giannini-Grifoni as Rodolfo, and Maurizio Bensaude as Marcello ); La Scala ( 15 March 1897, with Angelica Pandolfini as Mimì, Camilla Pasini as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Edoardo Camera as Marcello ); La Fenice ( 26 December 1897, with Emilia Merolla as Mimì, Maria Martelli as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu and Franco Mannucci as Rodolfo, and Ferruccio Corradetti as Marcello ); Teatro Regio di Parma ( 29 January 1898, with Solomiya Krushelnytska as Mimì, Lina Cassandro as Musetta, Pietro Ferrari as Rodolfo, and Pietro Giacomello as Marcello ); And the Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo ( 21 August 1898, with Emilia Corsi as Mimì, Annita Barone as Musetta, Giovanni Apostolu as Rodolfo, and Giovanni Roussel as Marcello ).

And if one does not synonymize " Verismo " with " bloodshed ", one could postulate that Puccini gave us the most perfect " realistic " opera in La Bohème.

His last full-length opera was an 1849 fairy-tale satire of the Prussian military state called Rolands Knappen ( Roland's Squire ), featuring the repeated line " And this is supposed to be a world order?

He then moved on to become Head of Drama at the independent production company Pearson Television, where he oversaw work on ITV police drama The Bill and another soap opera, Channel 5's Family Affairs, which he created, and was Executive Producer on C5's legal drama series, the BAFTA nominated Wing And A Prayer.

And I don't know if that was an opera but it was very hard to sing.

* Cordelia Abbott, in the television soap opera The Young And The Restless

And in 1913, operatic performances in the arena commenced in earnest due to the zeal and initiative of the Italian opera tenor Giovanni Zenatello and the impresario Ottone Rovato.

* Federico Fellini's 1984 And the Ship Sails On features a scene in which a male opera singer hypnotises a chicken in the mess hall.

The book explores a number of themes, including the pursuit of life beyond the ordinary or comfortable routine and which is exemplified in the artistic quest to produce the opera or in Darcourt's quest to uncover the truth behind the painting of The Wedding at Cana The theme of marriage is examined through the relationship between Arthur and Maria Cornish, a relationship that must withstand the test of infidelity And the modern approach to relationships is mocked in the dysfunctional common-law marriage of two minor characters who present themselves in Toronto to monitor and record the production of the opera from start to finish.

And the fact that Hajibeyov grew up in Shusha explains how at 22, in 1908, with very little formal musical education, he was capable of writing a full-length opera.

And its liturgical character derives not only from actual liturgical sources but also, and at least as much, from the familiar Russian glory-music of the concert and opera stages.

Men from Maine is a one to two-minute comedy segment, opening with soap opera organ music and Loren stating something varying along the lines of, " And now for another thrilling episode of the exciting adventures of Men from Maine.

More recently he has co-presented in-the-round opera and ballet productions at the Royal Albert Hall including La Bohème ( directed by Francesca Zambello ), Carmen, Madam Butterfly, Tosca, and Aida ( all directed by David Freeman ), Cavalleria Rusticana, and Pagliacci ; and, with English National Ballet, Swan Lake, Romeo And Juliet and The Sleeping Beauty.

And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.

And there was a house ; ;

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

And he ignored him, skirting the parked cars and walking up the path to the Skopas house.

And it helps the builder because it can handle a more efficiently packaged load, can deliver it to the best spot ( in some cases, right on the roof or inside the house ), and never takes any of the builder's high-priced labor to help unload it.

And despite Knowlton's attempts to show that the house was locked up tighter than a drum, this was not true.

And in all likelihood, by now, there was more than one person in the house who knew the terms of her marriage contract.

And then rushed out of the house.

And we'll be poor and have to live in a grubby little house like yours -- and all because of that '' --

: And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.

8: " And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's orchard ( pardes ), that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city.

And told the jury that scientific testimony from bug experts would prove it was " impossible " for Westerfield to have dumped Danielle's body, and that no trace of him was found in the van Dams ' house.

***" And come to the house of Hades and dread Persephoneia to seek sooth saying of the spirit of Theban Teiresias.

And should they lose it ( as individuals or as a Government in power ); when the lower house has passed a motion of no confidence in the government, the government must immediately resign or submit itself to the electorate in a new general election.

) And those who ... promise to the dwellers in towns that every one of them shall have a house and garden in free air, with ample space ; those who tell you that there shall be markets for selling at wholesale prices retail quantities — I won't say are imposters, because I have no doubt they are sincere ; but I will say they are quacks ( cheers ); they are deluded and beguiled by a spurious philanthropy, and when they ought to give you substantial, even if they are humble and modest boons, they are endeavouring, perhaps without their own consciousness, to delude you with fanaticism, and offering to you a fruit which, when you attempt to taste it, will prove to be but ashes in your mouths.

She has said it is a " house for adults ", " And even though I'm pushing 60 I don't feel that I'm that old yet.

The Lenten significance of the Gospel account of Zacchaeus is that it introduces the themes of pious zeal ( Zacchaeus ' climbing up the sycamore tree ; Jesus ' words: " Zacchaeus, make haste "), restraint ( Jesus ' words: " come down "), making a place for Jesus in the heart (" I must abide at thy house "), overcoming gossip (" And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner "), repentance and almsgiving (" And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor ; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold "), forgiveness and reconciliation (" And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham "), and the reason for the Passion and Resurrection (" For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost ").

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Then, before you are well seated at table, a child is yelling :—' The cows are over the fence ;' or ' The sheep are in the crop ,' and everyone jumps up and runs ... And when you have managed to drive the cows or the sheep into their paddock and put up the rails, you get back to the house nicely ' rested ' to find the pea-soup cold and full of flies, the pork under the table gnawed by dogs and cats, and you eat what you can lay your hands on, watching for the next trick the wretched animals are getting ready to play on you.

" And they brought out the pillars ( massebahs ) of the house of the Baʿal and burned them.

And here all the time you knew the Sioux would be using our rifles on them!!

And it's goin' to go on like this year after year until the white people take over this land ''.

And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.

`` And I sort o' got a corner on the market ''.

And Sweeney Squadron put its first marks on the combat record.

And he didn't have any clothes on ''.

And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

And make my life different and better from this time on.

And projecting wickedly through these curtains were the gleaming muzzles of six rifles, all trained on Billy Tilghman.

And no messages can be transmitted on these circuits until senders and receivers authenticate in advance, by special codes, that the messages actually come from their purported sources.

And yet we obviously also believe that the avoidance of the disaster depends in some obscure or at least uncertain way on the details of how we behave.

And one finds it again in Thomas Nelson Page ) to the effect that the Mayflower on its second voyage brought a cargo of Negro slaves.

And ( D ) all action of a physical kind pertinent to the mission is relegated to the line of men on the lower rank.

And the common man was developing mythic power, or charisma, on his own.

And when we consider the tenuous hold tradition has on existence, any weakening of that hold constitutes a crisis of existence.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

And she wrote the libretto for an oratorio on the subject of Judas Maccabeus performed at the Hanukkah festival which came in December.

And I was to go to work on that odd matter.

And so on through the roles referred to in the previous paragraph.

Trevelyan's Manin And The Venetian Revolution Of 1848, his last major volume on an Italian theme, was written in a minor key.

And it is this, particularly the establishment of archaeology and place-name studies on a scientific basis, which are immediately pertinent to the Saxon Shore.

Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.