operagoer

That is why this operagoer looks to the new project, in its various dimensions, with a good deal of hope.

After a performance, a far more extreme range of response exists than an American operagoer is used to.

Such is the low estimate of the operagoer held by virtually everyone in the opera business.

One man who professed enthusiasm claimed to be an avid operagoer.

But what might that dour operagoer have been hearing?

Think what the literate operagoer is up against, stripped of the impact of music.

The armchair operagoer has once again been splendidly served.

That, however, is an extreme position that even the devoted female operagoer might not defend to the death.

"I've seen demonstrations before," said Eleanor Valley, a veteran operagoer.

In a recent interview, he recalled becoming "an instant, almost insane operagoer," attending 150 performances a year.

This means that, at the rate of six evenings plus Sunday matinees, the operagoer has 14 performances from which to choose any week.

Relied upon heavily, they may indeed promote laziness and encourage the operagoer to watch passively.

But another operagoer, Lester Fusco, a retired school principal, was more sympathetic.

He said he has listened to hundreds of the broadcasts, including many performances that he attended since becoming an operagoer in 1960.

Mr. Vilar is an avid operagoer and used that connection in at least one case to find a client.

The aggressive, intrusive booing of this disgruntled operagoer meets any reasonable definition of disruption.

In the next scene, another operagoer has a new two-way pager with a silent keypad, which allows him to "stay in touch without disturbing anyone."

He is the kind of character commonly found in operetta: the well-heeled sensualist who provides the operagoer with an easy self-projection on the stage.

"The system is designed," it read, "to commandeer the attention of the operagoer by increasing the level of activity over the length of the performance.

For the opera buff and occasional operagoer alike, most of a day can be spent profitably preparing, as it were, for the evening performance.

Pitying the poor operagoer who is left to sort it all out, one high-profile production has undertaken a novel bit of Mozartean whimsy.

Its conductor, Leon Botstein, gave us a rare look at a work that every concert- or operagoer should experience at least once.

Verdi, a lifelong operagoer, grew up absorbing the Rossini period's bel canto technique.

For the serious operagoer, the human voice is a sacred instrument and nothing must stand between it and the audience, even if it clarifies a work.

They weren't close friends, but they were about the same age, and Granville, like Banks, was a jazz fan and a keen operagoer.