One could hardly ask it to bear comparison with favorite operas outside America.

It has remained one of my favorite operas ever since.

Since that's a favorite opera of mine, I asked what was funny.

Boy's father: This is his favorite opera.

Louise was her favorite opera and is widely considered to have been her greatest role.

"They will bring up a submajor," said Kunohara, with as much satisfaction as if he watched the last act of a favorite opera.

"Orfeo" may very well be my favorite opera; it contains, to my mind, some of the most gorgeous music ever written.

"Uh, I don't have a favorite opera," he said.

A publicity blurb says the work is "very much in the style of everybody's favorite Italian operas."

Even my own favorite operas do that, and you ignore it at your peril.