He is in town with his wife to go to the opera.
Maybe she wants to go to the opera and he doesn't.
His face, when some kind friend took us to the opera!
They told me you went to the opera last night, but I knew that couldn't be true.
"Well, I cannot go to the opera while you are out trying to get yourself killed!"
Young people are coming to opera because it's an interesting thing to them.
We are hearing a different way to present opera and, who knows, perhaps a better one.
But the return to opera has not by any means been a search for a lost past.
"Would you like to come to the opera one night?"
"I haven't been to the opera or anything like that for years."