Still, her voice is not, in operatic terms, a dramatic instrument.

And now, with a budget of $300,000, peanuts in operatic terms, the company presents two fully staged operas every summer, one of them a 20th-century work in English.

They are as close to aphorism and understatement as Mahler ever comes, yet Mr. Terfel hears them in operatic terms.

He stated that he had been sorely tempted to, but saw Carousel in operatic terms.

The American dream, in operatic terms, still tends toward star-driven productions of standard repertory, presented more or less conventionally.

Mr. Kaiser's achievement was to conceive this Broadway celebration on operatic terms.

"We love different kinds of music; we don't like to put ourselves in a Fach," she added, using the operatic term for vocal category.

Will tends to describe my life in really operatic terms, which usually is how my life feels, like "Tristan und Isolde."

This is particularly problematic when trying to apply the operatic terms, as the vocal types are more descriptive of vocal timbre and vocal facility than simple vocal range.

Capturing the texture of everyday life in operatic terms was one of Puccini's special talents, and there's no better sustained example than this act.