Tinkering with the ending of this story is an old operatic tradition anyway.

There's a long and honorable operatic tradition of mounting vehicles for big stars.

The operatic tradition, never strong in England, had weakened everywhere.

Such sentiments are indeed understandable in a country where for well over a century the operatic tradition had been dominated by foreigners.

But that is, after all, a part of the operatic tradition - as long as it works.

The search goes on for an American operatic tradition.

Totally unbelievable and an offence against common sense, in the best operatic tradition!

The operatic tradition also comes in for its share of jests.

The Neapolitans did not want a young composer from the north to continue their operatic tradition.

For them, the former brewery represented the soul of the city's operatic tradition.